Fermenting food is a process, and it all begins with the right vessel. Food & Wine / Amazon Fermentation requires very little equipment to get started, but a crock or a jar is essential.

Learn to make fermented food you’ll actually eat with these easy recipes for sauerkraut, (real) deli-style pickles, and salsa. The goal of any fermentation is to allow bacteria to run free – but you ...

Everyone should be making their own homemade sauerkraut. Not only do you get all the benefits of those fermentation-induced probiotics, but you ditch all the preservatives from canned and jarred ...

Fermentation is an old way of preserving your harvest. Got too many beans? Whack ’em in some salt. Surplus of cabbage? Brine it. These days though, most of us aren’t subsistence farmers, so why bother ...

In the days before refrigerators, chemical preservatives, and fossil-fueled transportation, starving to death in the winter was a much more pervasive fear. Fermentation first arose more than 10,000 ...

An age-old technique transforms vegetables and spices into a popular condiment with a zesty, funky taste. The key? Nurturing the right community... How hardworking microbes ferment cabbage into kimchi ...

Your inbox is about to become a better place. Sign up for exclusive content from our editors and never miss out on the best from the magazine and stylist.co.uk again. Fermented vegetables are great ...

This is how I bottle my homemade fermented sauerkraut. This batch took me about 10 days of fermenting to get the taste just right. Now that summer has arrived here in the subtropics we won't be able ...

The somewhat-green sauerkraut on the left has just been made and fermentation hasn’t begun. The white sauerkraut in the middle was made 2 to 3 weeks ago and is ready to enjoy. The brown sauerkraut is ...

I love fermented foods. I love that you can leave something out on the counter, in the refrigerator — forget about it, even — and it just gets better. But why do some foods improve with age, while ...