First... let me say that I love love love the fermented kimchi I made mid december. The stuff is delicious and makes a mean pot of kimchi chigae (kimchi stew).
However there is a slight lesson that I learned... leave headroom in the jars! During the week of christmas one of the jars managed to blow its lid off and spew kimchi juice all over my fridge. I guess I succeeded in achieving fermentation ;)
no picture since I quickly consumed the entire jar :)
A friend suggested that I vent the jars to prevent future kimchi blowouts. The problem is that I opened a jar and it immediately began forcing juice out and when the lid was removed the mass of cabbage inflated to form a dome over the lip of the jar.
Todate, I've consumed/used 2 jars to date and given one away. At this rate I'll have to make more soon... darn ;)
2009/01/03
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