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

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Keeping your fruits or vegetables completely submerged in brine or natural juices is the way to achieve that. Fermentation weights, also known as pickle pebbles, are the perfect weight to hold down your produce and stop it from floating up during fermentation. Handmade porcelain weights are ideal for keeping your fermenting veggies submerged under brine and are made in three sizes to fit any Mason jar.One of the requirements for successful fermentation is to provide an anaerobic environment to prevent oxidation and mold. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Now if I could only remember not to overfill the jars before inserting this weight, I'd be in great shape! During the fermentation process, these natural bacteria convert the carbohydrates and sugars in food to an acid which creates an ideal environment for preserving.

They are compact and heavy so take up less room in a jar than DIY fermentation weights allowing more room for the actual vegetables.

Water or brine can be used, brine is good if you think the bag may leak as it won’t dilute the brine in the ferment. As this happens, your ferment moves out of the safety of the brine and/or brine can overflow the jar.

Our weights have easy-to-hold handles, making it easy to put them in and pull them out of your fermentation jars; avoiding them slipping out of your grip. These are just the right size to fit into a recycled honey jar (70mm lid size jar)and are perfect for keeping krauts and other ferments submerged in saline or pickled shallots submerged in vinegar.But those darn small pieces of cabbage, or those cranberries just love to float to the top and ruin it all. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. 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.

There are many products online for this and some simple things you can use that you already have on hand. The height of the cup made it so that I would have to leave my ferment uncovered with the cup partially sticking out of the jar. If you need fermentation weights for your large crock, I highly recommend the lead-free glass weights sold by Stone Creek Trading as an alternative to the traditional porous ceramic weights which are sold with most fermenting crocks. Mold is a fungus organism that grows in filaments that are connected, so it’s a thread-like type of creature that’s multi-celled in contrast to bacteria which is a single-celled organism. We do try to keep it to a minimum BUT we would rather your item arrived in one piece than be mean with the packaging.Please do not subject your Pickle Pebbles to extreme heat changes, like moving from the hot dishwasher to a cold brine, as this generally causes glass to crack. Mold grows from mold spores that are present everywhere in the air and begin growing when they land on a wet surface that has nutrients (such as your food).