How To Make A Ceramic Fermenting Crock

Water sealed crocks sometimes referred to under the brand name harsch crocks make for a very easy ferment.

How to make a ceramic fermenting crock.

Use a fermenting weight to push the veggies down and make sure to completely cover them with the brine. K k keramik pot is free of lead and cadmium keeps the nutrition packed in sauerkraut and pickled vegetables. Cylinder ceramic pickling ohio stoneware crocks in 1 gallon 2 gallon 3 gallon 4 gallon 5 gallon and 10 gallon sizes. Fermentation pot comes in a beautiful speckled earthen brown color with smooth and shiny finish.

Keramik german made fermenting crock pot is specially designed to ferment vegetables. They are generally more expensive than their open crock counterparts but they come with a lid and often with weights that create the perfect fermentation barrier. Making sauerkraut in a crock is the traditional way to prepare this probiotic vegetable ferment. If the glaze is checked there will be hair grown out of the crock making it look a little freaky.

How to make diy fermented foods. Fermenting pots come in various sizes usually ranging from 2 to 40 liters. Let s take a quick look at the ohio stoneware crocks. No air enters the crock once the water seal is poured but co2 created during fermentation.

These giant pickling pots above are used to make kimchi in korea. On the left is an open top crock and on the right a water seal crock. You can pickle and ferment in either an open top pickling crock or a water seal fermentation crock. I have done this with crocks that are from antique age to newer.

Whether you use an open crock or a water sealed crock simply put the veggies and any possible spices into the fermenting crock. While modern water locks make it easy to do small batch sauerkraut in a mason jar this old school method is still one of the easiest ways to make sauerkraut at home. Traditionally they are made from ceramic but i ve seen some glass fermenting crocks on the market lately. Fermentation crocks are pots that are made for fermenting.

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. You now will be able to ferment without contamination from the crock. 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. Here s a side by side comparison.

To note you can back the temp off a little faster as it gets toward 200 degrees.