How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies

How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies

How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies

I’ve decided to show you  How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies. I enjoy having it once a week or so. The store bought stuff is nowhere near as good as a homemade with live culture.

I’ve seen fancy  crocks online but at a hundred bucks that way to expensive for me. I used a free icing bucket from Walmart, a two dollar plate, an empty gallon jug and some cheesecloth I had laying around.  After some searching, I found a simple process for making kraut.

I started with two big cabbage heads. Each around 2.5 pounds. For five pounds of cabbage use three tablespoons of salt.

How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies
How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies

Cut up your cabbage anyway you like. I went with a rough cut. Take a handful and throw into your bucket

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Every time you throw in a handful sprinkle in some of your salt.

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Once all your cabbage is in take your fist and pound the cabbage down. You want to compress it to force water out to make the brine that will preserve it.

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After all the pounding throw your plate on. This helps keep air out and later will force the cabbage below the brine.

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Take a jug filled with water or any weight you have and place on the plate to keep constant pressure.

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Now cover your bucket with a cloth to keep flys out.

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I had a big rubber band on the rim to keep it in place.

That’s it. How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies is super easy.  Every time you walk by it just push down on the jug to keep the pressure. In a few days, the cabbage should be completely submerged under the brine. at this point, you can start testing it. In a week or two, you’ll have kraut. The kraut will keep in your bucket for at least the season. So go get a bucket and enjoy some homemade kraut!

 



     
           

3 thoughts to “How To Make Sauerkraut Easily With Free Supplies”

  1. Really I didn’t think it was that easy. Now I want to try it but I don’t have a icing bucket or the cheese cloth laying around my house.

  2. I’ll have to do this. I have 12 heads of cabbage in my garden. I don’t know what I was thinking, I go a little crazy when it’s time to pick out plants. Do you know if you can do this with any type of cabbage?

    1. Yup any type and more than just cabbage. Lacto-fermentation works for lots of veggies. You can throw in carrots and apples and anything you want while making kraut.

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