A suggestion to keep your spices down: Remember, the spices will leach out their nutrients and flavors similar to tea. Get a thin flexible cutting mat, scribe a circle on it using the ring, cut it out, and add a couple of small holes about 1/8 inch. Put your beets (or whatever you chose), salt, and spices in, cover with water, then carefully insert the plastic cover, pushing down so completely submerged, then place your glass weight on top, and push down more to ensure complete immersion. Cover and wait. That will keep your spices in the brine allowing the flavor to transfer.
I love them with carrot and fresh garlic and grated ginger. I use a pickling crock with a water lock on top. They still weights to put them in on top of the brine to keep most of the stuff under the solution
Thank you. I have many beets i wanted to be able to preserve awhile. How long do you think they will last. You mentioned wait 4 days so does that mean i need to eat my beets then? What am i able to do with my beets im not able to eat now..plus id like to have them year round. Thank you.
Because you don’t have to be an expert to do something, the early years of my channel (and some of it still) was about showing the learning process. There’s a lot of little things “experts” don’t remember to share that are confusing to beginners as I was. No need to be dick head about it
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Spices first then beets
I always have the salt water prepared ready to use . I keep my brine on the counter in a mason jar
A suggestion to keep your spices down: Remember, the spices will leach out their nutrients and flavors similar to tea. Get a thin flexible cutting mat, scribe a circle on it using the ring, cut it out, and add a couple of small holes about 1/8 inch. Put your beets (or whatever you chose), salt, and spices in, cover with water, then carefully insert the plastic cover, pushing down so completely submerged, then place your glass weight on top, and push down more to ensure complete immersion. Cover and wait. That will keep your spices in the brine allowing the flavor to transfer.
I love them with carrot and fresh garlic and grated ginger. I use a pickling crock with a water lock on top. They still weights to put them in on top of the brine to keep most of the stuff under the solution
Anna, try a teabag under the beets for the spices! You can buy them empty and ready-to-go, and the veggies will hold ithe spices down!
They have those at my local coop and I never thought to use those for ferments! I think you just changed my fermenting world!!! Thank you :)
@@FermentedHomestead - sure! I even make my bone broths using cheesecloth... one bundle up and out and the straining is 3/4 done.
@@alfalfacats7289 That makes sense but I usually just run broth through a muslin cloth and/or mesh strainer depending on the purpose.
@@FermentedHomestead embarrassingly, I am impatient with the messes I make trying to do it the right way!
@@alfalfacats7289 you're not alone in that, funnels and pots inside of bigger pots are the best!
I have been wanting to to try fermented beets! Looks great. Thanks
You totally should! They are super tasty 💜
I’m going to try myself. I buy them and can be quite expensive. I can eat them every day. Delish!
If you go to Azmon and buy the Masontop kit the have glass weight that help hold everything down
Thanks, going to give it a try.
Fantastic! 💜
Put the spices on the bottom then the beets
They still float 😂
@@FermentedHomestead I just did 4 jars mine didn't and one was powder
Try cabbage leaves over the top, works great for anything.
I’ll give it a try when I have them 😁
I know this is an old video - but do you have any tricks or recipes for making beet kvass?
I sure do, I made a video on it. It’s tasty stuff!
ua-cam.com/video/GiM7Wle5xcE/v-deo.html I hope this helps
Thank you. I have many beets i wanted to be able to preserve awhile. How long do you think they will last. You mentioned wait 4 days so does that mean i need to eat my beets then? What am i able to do with my beets im not able to eat now..plus id like to have them year round. Thank you.
An old trick, for the #Homesteader:
Stir it up with yer bare foot. It'll get it to #ferment a bit quicker, an improve the taste.
🤔 not sure how I feel about this haha
ewwwww
🤣😂
😂😊
go easy on the salt
I’m a salt fan. What measurement do you use?
How much do you use?
Were these beets cooked?
Looked raw to me.
Not a.great way to start a recipe with 'we'll see what happens' 'I've never dome this before' and 'I've never even eaten pickled beets'... 😅
That’s how I roll 🤓
@@FermentedHomestead I mean you do you but I'm not going to waste ingredients on a see what happens video
That is why I included the taste test but you to you boo 😃
If you have never done this before, why are you showing people how to do it OMG you know Nothing About it.
Because you don’t have to be an expert to do something, the early years of my channel (and some of it still) was about showing the learning process. There’s a lot of little things “experts” don’t remember to share that are confusing to beginners as I was. No need to be dick head about it