I wana try making Sauerkraut

[fishingbouchman]

Looked like a lot....


but didn't seem to go very far after it was beat.   But its enough for first time. 




now to wait for a couple weeks 

[Keymaster]

That's a fun project, I love Sauerkraut

[sliding_billy]

Looking forward to seeing the results.

[Smokin Don]

FB I found you need at least 6 lbs. of cabbage to fill the gal. jug. I am on my second batch now. With both batches I had the cabbage up to where the jug starts to taper. I had trouble with the cabbage coming up in the jug and was advised to keep it down. This happened about the 3rd or 4th day. The first jug I poked it back down and put a baggie filled with water in to keep it down. With the batch I have on now I just poked it back down with a large wooden spoon every day for several days and it is staying down now. The idea is to keep it under the brine. I think most of the fermenting is done after 7 days and some people use it after a week or two but I waited 30 days with the first batch and was happy. So will do the same with this batch. Hope you like yours. Don

[TentHunteR]

Perfect timing, and just the inspiration I need.

My wife made smoked sausage with sauerkraut the other night and I said I wanted to try making some homemade kraut too!  As simple as it is to do, I've just never tried it.

[fishingbouchman]

Perfect timing, and just the inspiration I need.

My wife made smoked sausage with sauerkraut the other night and I said I wanted to try making some homemade kraut too!  As simple as it is to do, I've just never tried it.

I agree.  It just looked to easy not to try.  Had some fresh kraut a few months back and it was a lot better than the store stuff.  Then Smokin Don got me inspired with his posts.  Hate the wait.