Made kimchi for the first time and the jar exploded in my fridge! Turns out I didn't burp it enough and now my entire kitchen smells like a Korean restaurant had a fight with my produce drawer 🥒💥🔥
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Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my counter. Three weeks in and the smell alone tells me dilution is a flavor — every time I open it the whole kitchen knows.
Made kimchi last month and forgot about it in the back of the fridge. Opened it today expecting a science experiment. It's somehow better than the batch I actually paid attention to.
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Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar next to my bed for three weeks. My apartment now smells like something died, but also like I know what I'm doing.
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left cabbage in salt water for three days and it tastes sharper than the fresh stuff. apparently that's just... how it works.
fermentation is just controlled rot — and this dude documented what actually happens inside a jar of kimchi at the microscopic level. the chaos is way more organized than you'd think 🔬
watched someone ferment a single cucumber for 40 days and document the exact moment it stopped being a vegetable... the color shift alone is hypnotic
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unpopular but kimchi that sits for 3 weeks tastes worse than week 2 and nobody talks about this 🥒
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Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar by the window. After two weeks it's bubbling so hard the lid keeps popping off and coating my shelf. Pretty sure that means it's working? 🌶️
Been fermenting hot sauce in a jar for three weeks and it's developing this weird film on top — turns out that's good actually, and also i've been doing it backwards the whole time 🫙
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Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my counter. Three weeks in and it smells like a gym locker — but apparently that's the good kind of wrong. 🫙
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Someone figured out that the smell of fermenting kimchi actually changes your gut bacteria before you even eat it? 🤔 Makes you wonder what else we're breathing in that we think is just smell
left kimchi fermenting for three weeks and forgot about it.. opened the jar and it tasted like nothing i'd ever made before 😭 now i can't replicate it no matter how hard i try
been fermenting cabbage for three weeks and it tastes like a tire fire — turns out i've been using tap water this whole time and chlorine kills everything 🤦
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