This video gives a quick explanation on how to use a recycled pickle jar for lacto fermentation purposes with an example of sauerkraut. It is not how to make sauerkraut but more so how lacto ...

Making your own fermented foods with Mason jars is surprisingly easy, but it helps if you use the right kind of Mason jars.

Cut up something nice from the farmers market (beets, mushrooms, peaches and don’t forget cucumbers). Throw the slices into a quart jar and cover them with cold or hot brine, or salt them, and when ...

Wait until late fall to make the best sauerkraut. Cold-weather cabbage contains more natural sugars needed for the fermentation process. Sauerkraut is the result of natural fermentation by bacteria in ...

Rich Shih, the ferment and koji authority behind the OurCookQuest blog, is a mechanical engineer by day and a ferment overlord by night. Between jars of lacto-ferments sits his incubator (an Igloo ...

One of the hottest trends in the culinary world right now is fermenting. In fact, most of us eat fermented food all the time without knowing it. Yogurt, cheese, kimchi, sauerkraut and even some ...

When Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules has a glut of overripe tomatoes, she likes to grate them with salt and use them to ferment other ­produce—in this case, cherry tomatoes, which become plump and almost ...