Ceramic Fermenting Crock Recipes

To prepare fresh vegetables for lactic preservation always wash in plenty of running water remove non edible parts such as stems and seeds and peel or trim as desired.

Ceramic fermenting crock recipes. They are ideal for making large batches of pickles and range in size from half a gallon to massive 5 gallons. Recipe salt pickles enjoy the following recipe for making preserved vegetables in your ohio stoneware crock. I used the 1 gallon stoneware crock kit from ohio stoneware in this demo. This process should only take about 30 minutes for preparation.

We ferment in it all the time sauerkraut video demo and recipe here pickles kimchi and more i highly recommend it. The ceramic fermentation crock goes one step further than a simple jar setup but having a u shaped water holding groove in which the lid sits. There s my sourdough starter bubbling away by the oven a container of continuous brew kombucha doing it s thing on the island and a 2 gallon crock of sauerkraut fermenting away in the corner. More about the 1 gallon stoneware crock.

My kitchen currently resembles the laboratory of a mad scientist. Advantages of using crocks for sauerkraut fermentation. Traditional fermentation crocks are typically ceramic and dark brown though these days more vibrant colors are also available. Gas can escape by bubbling up and out of the jar from under the lid due to a positive pressure being built up in the crock but air cannot get back inside.