weight and lid. cover jar with its own lid and refrigerate. In 1 2 days the malossol cucumbers will be ready to eat. Because there is less salt in the brine than Brined Cucumbers, malossol cucumbers should be eaten sooner. Store the pickles on the lowest shelf of the refrigerator for 4-5 days, after which they will become either too salty (and turn into regular brined cucumbers) or, more likely, too soft and almost mushy.