I would love to know if anyone has experience making sauerkraut in a Fido jar closed shut. I would be afraid to try it with water kefir, though. Then again,...
... No, I would not trust the gas to escape on its own. I vent the gas manually by lifting the wire bale mechanism and opening the jar the slightest little...
We also use the Real Salt brand for all our cooking and fermenting. Funny thing is I met a man a couple years ago who worked near the place in Utah where the...
I like their salt well enough but I don't use it for fermenting - it has sand in it - which I find undesirable... I think it's important to use salt without...
It's not that head space is good or bad. Just that it could have an effect. For vegies, the top layer tends to dry out, which is a different environment,...
Kayopectate *used* to be made from clay, but they stopped when they somehow got hold of some clay with lead in it, and got bad press. Anyway, clay has been...
I can't imagine why mason jars would be *dangerous*, but in terms of kraut, using barrels and open vats was a common method. I like this one from 1938, which...
I thought this was an interesting questions, with the issue of "what kind of ferments are the most gut-healing". Turns out someone is studying that and has a...
how the heck do you make beans with a salt water brine?! do you soak them first without salt? I thought they won't get tender with salt? maybe this is...
Well, I'm not sure if it's offtopic or not. Brining isn't exactly fermenting, but it's a huge part of a lot of ferments! The thing about Cooks is, the online...
Hello, Heather. It is May of early summer stage. I am enjoying quite start of Nukazuke,with cucumber and carrot. If you are to seek for the butylic acid...
How much bentonite do you use? Thanks. Victor Chandler AZ Clostridium doesn't grow well in temps cooler than 50 either, which is why the folks that eat "high"...
There's a theory out there that using olive oil as an anaerobic seal causes pH to rise, thus allowing for botulism. I can't find proof of this anywhere, and...
I am ready to make my first kimchi. There are toooooo many recipes out there. Can someone post one that works for them? I would like to use whey as a starter...
Heather, et. al., Hu! Well, I'll be. I'm definitely going to try this salty bean bake recipe. We're going away for the weekend camping and I'm in charge of ...
1/4 t is what I thought has been mentioned as the "dose" for humans with tummy sadness. Julie ... -- Julie Julie's Vegetable Ranch (541) 338-0031 [Non-text...
There is more to it than bacteria, also the ability to stay in the gut is important - what is there already, how is the lining etc - I donīt think scientists...
I hadn't thought about nuka. I don't have IBS myself, so I can't experiment with it. But I heard on another list from someone who can't digest konjac. She eats...
I've never taken more than 1/4 tsp, which seems like plenty. I did read one study where they were using it to treat e-coli infections, and they used 1 or 2 ...
Ah, I do like emulsifiers! I got some kitchen-grade lecithin as an experiment, and a couple of drops of that do amazing things. They add it to juice drinks, ...
My best advice is: keep it simple. Especially avoid too much onions or ginger, which can kind of overwhelm everything. If you start out with just plain Napa,...
On one of the groups someone did it, with salsa. Just took some salsa, poured olive oil over it, and let it set. She said it was delicious. I did it a couple...
h, lecithin, yeah! I don't have any liquid, but maybe should get my own experimental amount! j ... -- Julie Julie's Vegetable Ranch (541) 338-0031 [Non-text...
I did olives and feta cheese one time. I had a huge can of black olives and a big jar of green olives and I'd found some great fresh feta cheese. At the...
It is no problem that konjaku is not digested. If you find them in stool,it is only a eveidence that you did not bite and shew well. No panic. We expect to...
Just to follow up, yesterday I packed up a jar with a mix of green cabbage and broccoli, and this morning, when I gave the jar a little shake to see how the...
