"My boys made this to snack on while I was preparing the rest of our Christmas Dinner. They bumped up the spices just a bit with an addition of chilipolte chilii powder. It was very good. Batter was light and crispy. They even dredged a few green beans I was snapping and fried them up. The green beans were very good also. We like a lot of salt so the pickles were perfectly seasoned in my opinion. We used a Spicy Ranch as suggested for dipping sauce and it was very good.