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

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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. Handmade porcelain weights are ideal for keeping your fermenting veggies submerged under brine and are made in three sizes to fit any Mason jar.

To find out which fermentation weights work the best, I rounded up seven popular ones to put to a 28-day test. A fermentation weight could be something as simple as a bag full of water, a handful of food-safe stones or dedicated glass or porcelain weight that fit exactly in your jar.However, they seem to keep your ferment below the brine during the critical first week of fermentation. Once ready, screw on the one piece lid and transfer to the refrigerator to slow down the fermentation process. 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.

No matter how hard those Mighty Microbes push up – or if your fermenting mixture “heaves – the Pickle Pusher stays in place. Many fermentation jars nowadays have airlock lids, meaning they let carbon dioxide created during fermentation out without letting any oxygen in. Our fermenting pebbles are made from food safe glass, lead free and non porous and are perfect for weighing down vegetables during fermentation.They are particularly useful for ferments that contain lots of very small vegetable debris that are liable to float around traditional weights. Have you ever opened one of your precious jars of sauerkraut – or other ferments – to discover fuzzy green mold or powdery yeast? I tried fermenting for the first time recently… my 1st auerkraut attempt was waaaaay too satly and I didn’t let it sit long enough. In the sections that follow, I group them into three styles of fermentatation weights and share the pros and cons fo each.