My sister Pickles has now started her chemo and has been feeling a bit funky and achey after last week's first treatment. Today she says the only way to get energy back when you have none is to get up and do something. She's a spunky piece of work, that one!
The quart jar of kimchee is halfway gone so it's time to make another and that's what she did. We go through about a quart a month. She's got the recipe (from a Korean book on kimchee) tweaked down from about a gallon to a quart. It's a five day ferment on the counter and then into the reefer.
Pickles found that keeping the jar lids kept loose to allow for escaping gas works just as good as tying cheesecloth over the top of the jar. Then she puts a dish under the jar to catch anything bubbling over.
And she's solved the problem of odor in the reefer by putting the quart in a ziplock bag, zipping that shut and then putting that in another ziplock bag. The double bagging works perfectly!