4-Pack of Fermentation Glass Weights with Easy Grip Handle for Wide Mouth Mason Jars

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Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. A Fermentation Weight prevents your packed mass of sauerkraut or loose vegetables from working themselves up and out of the jar. Kahm yeast is a smooth, harmless surface powder that grows on ferments that haven’t reached high enough acids levels. I help people learn how to safely transform everyday vegetables into healthy and delicious fermented foods that are safe to eat, easy to add to meals, and will supercharge gut health. Porous weights work great, just make sure they are completely dry before storing, else mold can grow on them.

Whether you're craving salt, trying to add more live cultured food to your diet or just love fermented foods like sauerkraut, you're in luck! Due to their health benefits, fermented foods such as kimchi and sauerkraut have become increasingly popular in recent years.

These are just the right size to fit into a recycled honey jar (70mm lid size jar)and are perfect for keeping krauts and other ferments submerged in saline or pickled shallots submerged in vinegar. I like to stack the weights in the container and then add some fabric for cushion when I feel it is needed.

If you need fermentation weights for your large crock, I highly recommend the lead-free glass weights sold by Stone Creek Trading as an alternative to the traditional porous ceramic weights which are sold with most fermenting crocks. I bought 3 of these to use with the 3x 1 litre jars which I also purchased including airlock seals and additional screw lids. Yes, the critical period for your ferment to remain below the brine is during the first 7 days by which time enough lactic acid has been created and the pH of your ferment is low enough to term it safely fermented. The Kilner® Weights included in the fermentation sets will help to weigh down food and allow the anaerobic fermentation process to take place.The weight of these is sufficient to keep the veggies below the brine surface in wide mouth Mason jars. Through my passion for fermentation, your eagerness to learn the world’s oldest method of preservation and storage, and the help of millions of mighty microbes, we’ll get there.

Though it might be cute and awfully upcycle-y to sink granny’s souvenir from her single days into your fermentation crock, it could also be dangerous. It is hard to know the safety of non-food glass items such as marbles or Glass Floral Gems, all which I used as weights early on in my fermentation journey. Soda Fired 3 Quart Ceramic Fermentation Crock- DIY ferment in this rustic handmade pottery crock; weight included, green interior. I generally would check on my 28-Day Fermentation Weight Challenge jars in the morning when the temperatures near my jars were are about 68 and mid-afternoon when temperatures were around 72.Individually moulded from soda glass and inspected by hand to ensure they meet the highest quality standards, they’re heavier than many other glass or ceramic fermentation weights on the market, meaning one pickle pebble per jar is always enough, so you can have four jars on the go at once. However, they seem to keep your ferment below the brine during the critical first week of fermentation.

Whilst they may not spoil as easily you want fermentation weights to keep the ferment below the brine and have everything in the jar properly pickled.

The simplest types of fermentation weights people would of used would have been a plate on top of a open fermentation crock.