After all, you are most likely making a batch of sauerkraut and should have an available cabbage leaf. A vital component of the fermenting process, these weights ensure your veggies and fruits stay submerged under the brine, promoting a safe and effective fermentation. 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.

The Kilner® Weights included in the fermentation sets will help to weigh down food and allow the anaerobic fermentation process to take place. Before I give suggestions for floaties traps and fermentation weights, let’s first understand the role that the trillions of bacteria in our fermenting vegetables or sauerkraut play. Ziplock Bag Filled With Water Or Brine: A simple DIY solution that most people will already have is a ziplock bag.Now if I could only remember not to overfill the jars before inserting this weight, I'd be in great shape! Individually made from soda glass and inspected by hand to ensure they meet the highest quality standards, they are heavier than most other glass or ceramic fermentation weights on the market – so one pickle pebble per jar is always enough – and being transparent, once inside the jar, they can hardly be seen.

To find out which fermentation weights work the best, I rounded up seven popular ones to put to a 28-day test.But those darn small pieces of cabbage, or those cranberries just love to float to the top and ruin it all. If you need your culture by a certain date please contact us and let us know and we will do the best we can do accomodate. And, if you don’t mind leaving the lid off your ferment, a jar filled with water and its lid screwed on works like a charm.