home made kraut with QVIEW

[pops6927]

Gotta cook up a BIG pot of pig hocks and saurkraut with all this talk of it! Some pepper, some butter, it'll melt in your mouth!

 

[chef_boy812]

WOW, that brought a tear to my eye. because the smell is so strong, but more so because of the memories of Grandma and her neighbor Mr. Reed packing kraut

Funny Story
about 5 years after mr. Reed died, his son was plowing a new garden and came across 2 buckets of Mr. Reeds Kraut. IT WAS STRONG!!! but after a bit of rinsing, it was some of the best SOUR kraut we ever had. It was a great family reunion, we all ate and talked about family memeories.

Anyways....
GOOD JOB!!!, Keep up those old time practices, they are dying.
Thank you for bringing up some sweet, and stinky memeories.

 

[danorene]

Just another suggestion as to what to ferment in. We make kraut every year and ferment in a food grade plastic bucket with lid, the type used to brew beer in. We use the lid with an air lock and as the carbon dioxide it produced it is pushed out of the air lock with no worries of contamination. Yea, it has been refered to as drunk cabbage, but it sure is good and there is no funny smells in the house as it ferments. Brew buckets are not expensive and can be found at any homebrew store.