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October 11, 2014

First Batch of Sauerkraut

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This is something I should have done when we had a basement that stayed cooler. I’m hoping this will work with it being in the house and staying around 72º.

I have two really big crocks that don’t have lids and I bought those when I lived in MO and planned to make sauerkraut but never got around to it. For here, I decided to get a different crock – one that has a lid. I went with the TSM 10 Liter Fermentation Pot.

Fermentation Pot

Fermentation Pot

There were several ways I could have cut the cabbage – by hand, using a mandolin, using a food processor/grater but when I thought of chopping 4 to 6 heads of cabbage, I decided to get this cabbage slicer. I’m so glad I did . . it made the job so easy and didn’t take much time at all. I started with 4 heads of cabbage but wish I had bought 5 or 6 heads. I think I could have used at least 5 heads.

Cabbage

Cabbage

You can see the liquid in with the cabbage. That’s just the liquid out of the cabbage. I massaged and mashed til there was enough liquid to cover the weights.

Cabbage

Cabbage

Then it was time to put the lid on, seal it and wait . . for 2 weeks . . no peaking, no removing the lid. Can I do it? 

I’m so anxious to see if it works, how it tastes and how much sauerkraut we end up with.

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  1. Diana in RR,TX says

    October 11, 2014 at 10:13 am

    Sp according to my book-probably 3 – 4 weeks, once it stops bubbling it’s ready.
    Off to pick up Dad and take him back to his apartment!!!!!

  2. Diana in RR,TX says

    October 11, 2014 at 10:13 am

    Sp according to my book-probably 3 – 4 weeks, once it stops bubbling it’s ready.
    Off to pick up Dad and take him back to his apartment!!!!!

  3. Judy D in WA says

    October 11, 2014 at 11:24 am

    Sauerkraut making is one of my fondest memories of my Great Granny. She had the big mandolin and oh how I wanted to push that head of cabbage through and slice it. But not one time did I get to. I remember going into her fruit house-her giant, well insulated storage room where all the canning jars empty and full and the freezer lived-and smelling the sauerkraut. Even today when I open a jar of the not as good store bought stuff I see the crock in the fruit house and smell the kraut.
    Best of luck with yours. I can’t wait to find how how delicious it is.

  4. Sherrill says

    October 11, 2014 at 11:50 am

    So what will you do with it when it’s finished? Can it? One of my fav meals is pork roast cooked with sauerkraut but I never make it since it’s just me. We had mashed potatoes to ’round out’ the meal!! HA

  5. SaraF says

    October 11, 2014 at 4:27 pm

    sauerkraut, fried potatoes, and fried smokies – or fried kielbasa sausage. Yum! My idea of comfort food. And I’m not even of German origines.

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