Fermented foods

saor said:
Yup. I separated the white.
Made a little indentation in the salt.
Put the yolk in.
Covered with salt & put in fridge for a week.
Removed from salt & dusted off and tied in cheesecloth etc. in front of a fan for a day or two. Can probably go for longer but I wanted to eat it today.
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Will go a lot faster here in the Durban heat.
Thought it might taste awful but as you said might not be that bad.

I have semi course Himalayan salt and fine Himalayan salt. What would be the best to use?
 
Hephaestus said:
Will go a lot faster here in the Durban heat.
Thought it might taste awful but as you said might not be that bad.

I have semi course Himalayan salt and fine Himalayan salt. What would be the best to use?
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Fine.
 
Hephaestus said:
The fine salt I have is like, caster sugar fine
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I also used fine Himalayan. The yolk needs to be absolutely blanketed in salt everywhere. The coarser stuff will leave too many air pockets.
 
saor said:
I also used fine Himalayan. The yolk needs to be absolutely blanketed in salt everywhere. The coarser stuff will leave too many air pockets.
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Okay, will give it a try on Thursday, cleaner comes on Tuesday, don't want her to chuck it in the bin.
How many days worked for yours? (too lazy to read back)
 
Hephaestus said:
Okay, will give it a try on Thursday, cleaner comes on Tuesday, don't want her to chuck it in the bin.
How many days worked for yours? (too lazy to read back)
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Took one out yesterday = 6 days.
The rest I'll take out tomorrow = 8 days.
Plus drying for a day or two with a fan / dehydrator etc.
 
saor said:
Took one out yesterday = 6 days.
The rest I'll take out tomorrow = 8 days.
Plus drying for a day or two with a fan / dehydrator etc.
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Great, thanks.
Going to try a strip or two of bacon in the same way.
 
Due time on Friday, might keep the ones with only chillies for a bit longer, but would like to taste the other.
The fermented veggies are good for your digestive system.
Called Lactic Acid Fermentation.

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saor said:
Yeah dat nice tangy smell!
I binned a chili only one yesterday - wasn't smelling lekker.

Did you do the bacon?
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Not yet, cleaner here tomorrow, will do it after, don't want her to chuck it in the bin by accident
 
saor said:
Yeah dat nice tangy smell!
I binned a chili only one yesterday - wasn't smelling lekker.

Did you do the bacon?
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Waiting for the chilli's, some were building up salt deposits, think the brine there was too concentrated
 
Smells are getting better, might keep it brewing for one more week, we are having a gold week
 
I binned all my vinegar experiments except one (the raisins with the airlock on top). Nothing was bubbling or doing anything after more than a week; was starting to smell meh.
 
saor said:
I binned all my vinegar experiments except one (the raisins with the airlock on top). Nothing was bubbling or doing anything after more than a week; was starting to smell meh.
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Not much in there for natural fermentation.


With my cabbage I have found the stuff is very active, think for next time I will combine it with other stuff and not just on its own
 
saor said:
I binned all my vinegar experiments except one (the raisins with the airlock on top). Nothing was bubbling or doing anything after more than a week; was starting to smell meh.
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Ja so far only the dried mago strips I got from WW is post alcoholization. Out of boredom I stared a strawberry one.

Could also be the cooler post few days?
 
Nemoneiros said:


Ja so far only the dried mago strips I got from WW is post alcoholization. Out of boredom I stared a strawberry one.
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Fresh strawberries?
Mango one smelling nice?
How long did it take for your mango to get to this point?

Ja...I'm gonna try again with fresh fruit in an airlocked container and see what happens. The sulphur on the dried fruit might be an issue. Can get a few things un-sulphured but let's see with the fresh fruit first.
 
saor said:
Fresh strawberries?
Mango one smelling nice?
How long did it take for your mango to get to this point?

Ja...I'm gonna try again with fresh fruit in an airlocked container and see what happens. The sulphur on the dried fruit might be an issue. Can get a few things un-sulphured but let's see with the fresh fruit first.
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Yes, fresh strawberry following the twice day stir and scrape down.

Mangos smelt boozy, tasted as such and now it's going in direction of vinagar taste. Well I think so.

/runs for re-smell
 
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