Fermenting containers DIY
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video I show you a few different fermenting containers, as well as show you how I make my own ones inexpensively!
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What a great channel! I've been binging your videos for the last couple of days in a spree to learn about hotsauce fermentation. This is by far the best channel on chillis and hotsauce out there! Thank you
Thank you Rufus, that is very kind of you to say!
@@ChilliChump He is right, this is by far the most educational yet enjoyable channel about hot sauce/ peppers/ fermentation. Thank you for doing this
@@ChilliChump simply use tape to seal ur cap no need hard tight cap
@@ChilliChump you could try to order the fermentation crocks in Poland as well...
In Silesia (southern part of the country) they are known as "bunclok" (spelled 'buntslock'), because they were/are mostly produced in the city called Bolesławiec, which German name of was Bunzlau ('buntslau')... But they are not quite cheap either...
Hi, I have been fermenting sauces for some time now but alwys up for learning some thing new as I did with one or two of your videos. Thanks. Just a trick I use for my jars. I have 6 old pickle jars that I clean well. The lids I drilled a small 6mm hole. I then insert a 6mm fishtank tube into this and the other en in a bottle half full of water and there is a perfect air trap that is cheap. need one water container for all 6 jars. Great channel thanks
So just a clear tube that you would normally use for a airstone?
Your videos are actually insane. So much stuff explained perfectly. Love it!
Thank you!
Ive been following you for a while now but today you finally inspired me to make a small fermentation pot and have a go at a shelf stable sauce (no room left in the fridge). Thought I would take a punt before this years crop 🤞. Your videos have been really helpful over the last 18 months and I have had much better results because of you. Thanks big fella and all the best with the move to Chilli Chump Manor.
Thanks Nathan, and good luck with your fermentation!
Hey Sean great video! It is funny how years ago i fermented corn to make moonshine and now i am fermenting peppers for hot sauces. I have made fermenters as big as a 55 gallon drum. But honestly i learned all this pepper fermenting from watching you. I am using glass jars with homemade lids with bubblers and they work great. I just finished my first 2 sauces both with 2 week ferments. They are amazing! Thanks for the knowledge brother!
Thank you for the kind words and thank you for watching!
I also did a lot of beer, wine and cider fermenting before properly getting into fermenting my sauces! Lots of similar concepts. I must admit, I haven't made anything like moonshine before 😄
Happy I've been subbed since 1.8k. Just got my fermenting lids in, will be starting my first Habanero fement ever! Thanks all to your videos! From a Canuck across the pond.
So many useful tips, thank you. Thanks, especially for the pointer towards the Sterikaps - with some things you just have to know they exist ;)
I've just made a fermentation container out of one of those transparent little buckets you get your coleslaw in. For softer material one can also use a 12mm hole punch - works really well.
Haven't really tried it, because I'm still waiting for my Habaneros to turn red, but the lid should create a good enough seal for a short to midterm fermentation.
Just got into contact with Mr Chilichump to get some help with fermentation equipment. Very helpful guy and super quick to respond! Quality UA-camr!!!
What a great channel!! thank you so much for your time!! I love it!
Instead of a plastic baggie, you can also use a balloon stretched over the lid. Then just make a pin-prick in the balloon to let the CO2 escape. I make applejack occasionally, and that's what I use instead of an airlock when I'm fermenting my apples.
I'm just starting but I already swear by 3-piece airlocks and in the early stages, a blowoff tube system which is really easy to make.
Excellent video, great info! Just what I was looking for, but to make mead, in micro batches since I very rarely drink. Thank you!
Great info, thanks for sharing this. I got into fermentation this year and this is super to know.
I'm always doing it in a glass jar with a normal lit, and open it at first every day and later on every second day until I eventually don't have to open it anymore. I'm alway just opening it to the point where the co2 is rushing out.
Thank you so much for this tip! The fermentation pack is so expensive here in South Africa. I actually found all fermentation supplies inexpensive in a craft beer supplies shop! So for anyone who is starting out like myself. Please gather your supplies in craft beer stores.
Fantastic video very well made and awesome presentation.
Really, really great videos you make sir.
Thank you so much for your free lesson. I will make mine using 30 lts plastic Drum because we have too much peppers spoiling in my country. I just want you to tell me please what is the proportion of vinegar by one liter of water. I will appreciate to hearing from you.
Good job, everything perfectly explained. Thank you :)
Hi, I used the plastic bag method with no problems until I think they finished fermenting at which point they developed a white film on top which I thought was mold and I threw them all out. I've subsequently found out that it's Kahm yeast which is absolutely natural and nothing to worry about and can be scraped off after fermentation and before processing, wish I'd known!!
Yep sounds like kahm yeast. I made a video on the topic actually if you wanted to check it out:
Is my fermentation safe
ua-cam.com/video/SIPAqoxF710/v-deo.html
@@ChilliChump Thanks, great video.
Hi chilichump. Thank you for very interesting videos. Im All New to the chili gorwing univers, and how to ferment the Peppers, did My frist batch føof fermented lemon Chilis this evening and smoked and dried jalapeno yesterday. Im already Thing about what to grow next year, but need some inspiration on what to grow, man what different Peppers Are god for, ( sauce, DRYING, cooking etc.) could be an interesting video.😀👍. Again thank you very Good and usefull videos.
Really useful. Many thanks.👍🏻
Loving your channel Chillichump, much to the chagrin of my acquaintances who end up as my guinnea pigs when it comes to taste test time.
I have been using Erlenmeyer flasks and find that they are awesome for fermenting chillies. With the rubber stopper and hole, they are a perfect fit for an airlock such as the one you used in this video.
They come in many sizes and are not all that expensive.
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excellent video. I live in Japan and I always see your videos. I made an airlock using a cigarette filter tip is much smaller than the conventional airlock. how do I send photos? Thank you very much!!
Hi Alison, thank you for watching! That airlock sounds interesting! You can contact me through my website chillichump.com/contact
@@ChilliChump ok I have send now. Sorry I have send 2 times because the email was on spam box. I put a cotton inside to guarantee but have cigarettes tips that have already it will the next buy.
I really like these videos! I just made my first fermented batch this week based off your starter series, very well done! I was wondering about your cleaning methods and reusing your jars and lids. I've cleaned it a ton and it still has the fermented pepper smell to it. Keep the vids coming!
If it is glass, then put them in the dishwasher on high heat...or boil them on the stove. However, I'm not too worried about the smell, I try to use that equipment only with my fermenting or sauce making...so it isn't much of an issue. Just make sure they are as clean as can be
Would a small sandwich bag serve to create a seal, maybe? Could be a cheap improvement.
Yeah I did think about that, we used to do that when I was younger, use plastic bags around the lid to seal a plastic soda bottle properly
I wonder does top without plastic ring work on mead or might it go bad
thanks!!! excellent review!
Grew up near the original Stanley headquarters the US and one of my ex girlfriends did design there too, but I never knew they had their own line of power tools. Pretty weird they are from here and I never see their power tools till I watch a video from the UK.
The power tools are pretty popular here. Decent quality stuff as long as you don't buy their cheapest tools. They own DeWalt now as well....now that is some decent equipment!
Hi, I started to make my own pickles and i love it. I want to try your way of making tabasco sauce. During the fermentation process, do i keep the jar in the fridge? Or room temperature is ok?
The fridge you see me using is a modified one. It maintains whatever temperature I need for fermentation. You can see how its built here: ua-cam.com/video/nMMbdDRJaUY/v-deo.html
You need to maintain temperatures of around 20'C or 68'F ideally for lactofermentation.
Amazon has the German Fermentation pots for 58.00 to 120.00 dollars US
Hello Shaun, I have a question, if I wanted to ferment larger volumes, would it be correct to use a stainless steel fermenter?
I personally don't use stainless steel for my large batches
Also those airlocks do you put any liquid in or do they come already with liquid in them thank you for your channel
You put liquid in them.
Is there a way to test air leaks at the junction of hole, grommet and airlock? I can smell my ferment at the grommet area and am thinking I have the slightest airleak even though I did it all very neat and tidy and everything was very snug.
Mix a bit of dishsoap with water, and put it around the grommet. It will make little bubbles if it is leaking
@@ChilliChump great idea! I am thinking that next time I will use some silicone glue on top around the grommet/lid area. Is it possible that even this slight amount of oxygen could be detrimental to the ferment? Many thanks for the relply!
howzit, I'm like day-one new to fermenting and am doing some research before I start. Can someone please tell me why you can't just put the lid on the jar loosely, so that the CO2 can escape? I mean, it's still covered, it's still sealed... it's just loose.
You can do that if you like. I don't, because I don't want to risk ruining my harvest I just spent 9 months growing.
I use the same set-up: a glass jar with air-lock. But I am struggling with fungus. How to keep all the chilies in the brine to avoid fungus? What could be a good diy solution? I did not find a solution yet. I tried a plastic bag filled with water but it block the air-lock.
I find if you clean the jar well before you start, then once the fermenting starts give the jar a swirl a couple times after a day or two. The brine and the CO2 should keep the mould away. I don't have too much problem with fungus/mould. The other thing you can do it use a large slice of onion to keep the peppers under the brine. Check out my other videos on fermenting you will see what I mean (I don't do the onion trick with every fermentation)
I have a airlock that already has a rubber thing on it and i just push it in the lide is that also good to use?? And i ferment most of the time for 1 month to 2 monhts
as long as it is airtight, then it is fine.
Now my bottles full of mead wont explode in my room bc i forgot to let the gas out within 10 hours, thanks
Fair enough
Has anyone tried drilling out a plastic mason cap and attaching a baby bottle nipple ? I wanted to buy some of the Masontops "Pickle Pipes" which are essentially expensive nipples with very high ratings. Replaceable baby bottle nipples are only a few dollars, but will the grommet seal enough I wonder.
Any links to buy this stuff in the US?
@Chillichump, what's your experience with fermenting chillis in plastic containers? Are they as easy to clean as glascontainers? Don't these containers take or absorb the heat of the peppers so that you can't use them anymore for other stuff? Thanks for your feedback
Using the right plastic containers I didn't see any problem with cleaning. The ones I show in this video clean easily. Also I don't use any of these containers for any other purpose....however, I don't detect any residual smells or flavours after cleaning!
@@ChilliChump thanks a lot. Usually the ones i find around here are containers like these hobbybrauer.de/forum/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/technik-braugeraete-zubehoer:gaerfass.jpg those are normally used to brew beer or do wine or cider. Normally those don't get used to ferment chillis 😉 thanks for your help
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By adding vinegar, such as raw apple cider vinegar, the growth of the lactic-acid bacteria will be stunted and result in off-texture and flavor. The use of vinegar in lacto-fermentatoin will actually greatly decrease in the natural preservative qualities of lacto-fermentation. Because of this, I would rethink how you 'ferment'.
Adding vinegar after you have fermented is perfectly fine. I agree, adding vinegar to a ferment during fermentation is counterproductive. Lactobacillus become dormant at around 3.5pH.
“How to make an airlock”
Step one: buy an airlock
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Thanks ChilliChump. I used the plastic baggie method on a 500ml mason jar. 50/50 mix of my own bhut jolokia and arbols, with a slice of onion holding it under a 2.75% solution. Thank you!
Did not know there are fermentation clay pots :O Sauerkraut is common here, and the traditional way was to put the shredded cabbages in barrels, cover with full cabbage leaves, press down with peaces of wood (like small planks) and put rocks on top of those :D A bit more modern way to this was instead of barrels use enameled metal buckets or pots, or plastic buckets (using same principle of weighing the cabbages down).
This is great! I tried some basic fermenting with just a large sealable glass jar and burped it every day myself for around 2 weeks. Will definitely give this a try!
My man keep up the awesome videos!!!! So my first fermentation has been going on for 16 days now. I have a feeling its gonna be super hot as just opening the cabinet its fermenting in smells like satan's farts (in a good way) I was wondering if when I blend it I could put in some pineapple? (Also vinegar, lemon and seasoning) I was wondering if its okay to add in the pineapple since it hasn't been fermented? Also would it compromise the sauce later on or spoil it. Just some concerns before I take the plunge to make my first sauce!!! Cheers mate
Thank you!
Sounds like it is fermenting just right....lol, satans farts. Adding pineapple will be no problem at all! Firstly it is quite acidic anyway, so won't affect the shelf life (probably will improve it). The safety aspect of fermenting is to make the sauce more acidic, and adding the pineapple will contribute to that. What I will suggest though is that you freeze your sauce for a couple of days, or alterntively put it on the stove to simmer for 10 minutes. This is to kill the fermentation. If you don't do that then the pineapple will begin fermenting and you will lose the sweetness, as well as create pressure in the bottle due to the release of CO2!
Ohhhh I see I totally didn't know it would continue to ferment! Thanks for the heads up. I'll add the pineapple and ingredients, blend it, simmer it on the stove and fill up some woozy bottles for my first hot sauce. I gotta thank you for that!
I'm tempted to make a video and post it on my page even though it's about fish lol but I do love hot sauce!
Great Channel , I learned a lot . Muchas Gracias , Saludos desde Costa Rica.
You could probably order some packing seals (rubber thing in the lid) and replace them with better fits pretty easily. Plumbing supplystores, hardware stores and such probably have them.
Hey I had an idea watching your plastic bag with the rubber band. Have you seen the new silicon lids that stretch over the food or bowls? Ikea sells some in a variety of sizes. I bet those would work just the same and be reusable! I think I'll try it out and see how my luck goes.
If I had land that was mine I know how to harvest and fire clay to make my own
I recognize that accent hehe... lekker bru. Great vid and channel. But late to the party but still giving props where due!
Awesome videos man! I just started a Serrano fermentation last week and a jalapeño fermentation today and plan on adding rehydrated chili’s later on as these are the only peppers available to me from the local market until my chili’s and ghost peppers finish maturing. I just couldn’t wait to get to making my own hot sauces haha. What an exciting adventure! Learned a ton from your channel already!!! I’m just using a kilmans jar with the cap screwed on loosely and burp it once a day. Using onion slices to hold everything down inside. Haven’t had any mold yet. Extremely excited to try my very first sauce in the next couple of weeks! Thank you very much for the videos!!!
as i eat pickled Guerkins i use the 688g glass jars and the lids seal tight
Man these videos are great! Surprised you have so few subs I think keep up the cracking content and your channel will explode
old salsa jars are what i've been using.
Im growing jalfuego and orange scotch bonnets! Hopefully I can keep them alive, and make some great sauces as you do!
Another great video. I'm beginning to go back through you're back vids and this was wonderful. Now I have a tip for you. You mentioned that you don't get a great seal with the plastic jars and lids. So try this. Use a square of aluminum foil over the top of the jar but put a small whole in the middle so the air lock passes through and tighten the lid down. The foil creates a gasket making for a better seal. You can use this same trick if you have a loose lid for a pot.
Or just some plastic wrap. The aluminium and acidity is not a great combination.
Lekker man!
I work for a brewery and also homebrew beers, meads, wines, and ciders. One thing that I have started using are the food grade PET 5 gal buckets my home improvement store sell with a gasketed lid. Then I drill my own holes and put in the grommets for the airlock/blowoff tube. I’m about to start into hot sauces, so maybe I’ll make a huge batch and try the bucket out.
I made my fermentation "pots" / jars out of the (Italian made) glass jars with wire locking, glass lids. Just like the one on the shelf, in the upper left hand corner. The lid is thick, heavy duty, and seals tight. Works great! You just have to wet drill the lid with a glass drill bit. And use a deeper / thicker made silicone O-ring, for the air lock.
The down side is, for long term storage, you'll want another glass lid, or a silicon plug / stopper for the air lock hole.
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Your videos are amazing! Really quality content, so much useful information and tips, truly deserving of more audience. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! That's very kind of you to say!
nice one
Great visual instructions on fermentation jars. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I just discovered your channel and I love it! You're as much fun to watch and as passionate as Scott Rea, the amazing butcher. Thanks for the education.
If you sit your fermenting jar on a dish with a little water in the bottom of it. THEN place a cylinder that's large enough to fit over the top of your jar, upside down with he rim sitting in the water...that should do it, as long as you don't allow the water in the dish to dry up. You could use a small vase or an empty plastic juice bottle for example.
love how informative your videos are.
You helped me make my first fermented hot sauce that turned out fantastically!!! Your a good bloke and cant wait to see more of your knowledgeable videos
Thank you Rob, very kind of you to say! Got a bunch of new sauce videos coming very soon!
I cant wait
Just found your channel! It’s awesome! I am a big chillies and I do a bunch of fermented foods at home.
This has been a very helpful video , my girlfriend has a little business making biltong she's also southafrican but now thinking about branching out and making sauces with the 🌶
Hey Dan, that's great to hear. I hope it goes well for her. I do this as a full time business,, selling sauces, my recipe book, amongst a whole bunch of other things. I also provide consultancy to give guidance to others wanting to go down a similar path. You can find out some details on Patreon (patreon.com/ChilliChump) or reach out directly to me and my team through my website if you are interested chillichump.com/contact
@@ChilliChump thank you so much we will look into this
@@ChilliChump I was so happy you replied that when I got home from work my girlfriend brought me your recipe book and can't wait to have a look , I used to be a chef for the military for 27 years so making sauces was my thing now I work in mental health
@@dansmith1009 thank you for your support! It will be out in the post to you next week! I'm sure you will enjoy the recipes....more than just sauces in there!
Thank you for making this video. You mention plastic BPA jars. Can you use BPA free water bottles? I'm looking to make water kefir in one as they're much taller and lighter (they get HEAVY when your making 3l) and the small glass jars are taking too much worktop space! Many thanks
I've just subscribed to your channel, I could listen to your instructions all day long.
12 days fermenting scotch bonnets and agree with the comment below it stinks like a Satan farts. I find it almost arousing but my gal.. I have never seen a person rolling her eyes that far.
It is certainly a smell to get used to...and then it gets addictive. When I open my fermenting fridge this time of year, the smell is intoxicating! This afternoon I opened the door to the fermenting fridge and my wife was behind me...she was less than impressed!
The Kilner fermentation kit is wonderful!
Most plastics are BPA free now. What about BPB, BPS? We don’t really know what is really made of plastic containers.
great video as allways
Superb. Thanks.
Must be some "Superman"/"Hulk" superduper fucken bacteria to survive in your sauce bra!!
the Lakeland jars which are actually Hefman are £14-09 for 2 from onbuy
open Q and A too anyone
i see Chinese ferment with whole carrots any reason i cant julienne the carrots then put them in ?
this will be useful when i buy a distillation setup to make solvent pure ethanol/fuel ethanol with some methanol or with boron salts dissolved
Use Mason jars. If you are a serious canner you have a good supply of Mason jars kicking around.
Great content and like your pragmatic delivery style. Can you add lemon or lime into the brine or can this be added at the post fermentation stage when you add vinegar?
Thank you! You could add the lemon/lime into the brine. I would just be conscious of ensuring the salt is still at 2-3% when taking the extra juice into consideration. You can also add the lemon/lime juice at the end of the ferementation...but I think that may reduce shelf life, I am not entirely sure (lemon juice that hasn't got preservatives in goes off...so I would assume it would go off in the sauce too if it wasn't fermented. Still looking into this!)
I'm new to this and find your videos very informative but still to the point. Thank you. Sending a wave from sunny SA. Sounds like you once lived here. 😁
Thanks Nancy, welcome to my channel! And yes I grew up in South Africa!
Made a grommet out of tubless tire air valve
Fantastic video. Thanks for explaining it so plainly. You’ve inspired me to make my own hot sauce. Love the channel. Please keep making more content.
Can you tell me what the grommet is actually called? With the ridge. Also size in inches please
Thanks..bro.great video..i from malaysia
Mate, good stuff! I have been wondering what I would use. Do you use any kind of weight when fermenting chilli those plastic jars? Cause the only ones I see online are quite expensive. Any tips? Just use a plastic bag to filled with brine to weigh them down?
Personally I don't weigh down my peppers! I give them a little swirl once a day for the first few days, then leave it be. If I see any white bits on the top, I give it another swirl. The swirling covers the peppers (and other veg) with the brine and will stop any growth. The other way I have done it in the past is with a slice of onion (I can't remember which video I showed this). Bit basically cut a large onion in half, then peel off the outer ring, and squeeze that into the container, that should keep things below the surface too. Then at the end of the ferment, discard the onion slice.
@@ChilliChump cheers mate!
They just opened a new Farm store in my town, and I saw that they have large fermenting crock pots for $25! (19 pound) So excited to get a couple! Thanks for the videos!
That's a great price! The fermenting crocks are really good, definitely something to have in your cupboard!
220 dollars here in australia =(
Hey man... awesome channel i watched a lot of videos and i realize that you are a Fermentation Master :) Thx a lot for the knowledge that you bring to us. Greetings from Brazil!
Hello and welcome to my channel Gabriel!
I'm already making a 2.5L Fermentation inspired and following your coordinates, my pleasure to be a follower of ur Channel!! Anxious to see and taste the results :) I think i'll let it fermenting, maybe a month, it's good for the first one?? I think i'll experiment putting some Passion fruit later when i'll be mix this in the mixer.
A month is good! Let me know how it turns out!
Interesting!
Great video
Does this work for tobacco ?
Make Kim Chi!
I will be doing a video on that in the future...I love Kimchi!
Hell yeah! This is the one.
how long do you need to ferment your Chillies
It really depends on what sauce you are making. But I like to ferment for at least 3 weeks. I have a couple I am doing for a year at the moment.
Have a look at some of my sauce videos for some ideas: ua-cam.com/play/PLuQ_ySnkV1elfcdlvXeIQUEzVI87vtZqF.html
Im making my own using mason jars and plastic caps. I've got the double bubbler style and the tube style airlocks my question is sometimes you use starsan (which i have) and sometimes you use brine in the airlocks is there a difference?
You are so clever!!
In Mexico, the cheap airlock is a balloon. A Large balloon like the ones you use in a party, you stretch it to fit your jar top, like the elastic band , and you poke a tiny hole at the top of the balloon, when fermentation is active the balloon inflates with co2, and it slowly scapes at the hole, then when it´s done the balloon falls and bends creating a seal to prevent oxigen from coming in. I normally soak the balloon in sanitizer before using it. Works perfect with small jars when its hard to find an airlock stopper.
Great tip, thank you!