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My uncle swore I needed an airlock for kimchi and he was flat out wrong
My uncle Bob has been fermenting stuff in his garage in Akron for like 20 years, so when I started my first batch of kimchi I called him up and he told me I absolutely had to buy a $15 airlock or it would spoil. I bought two of them on his advice and then did some reading, and it turns out kimchi is a salt brine ferment that does fine in a plain jar with a weight on top. The airlocks sat in a drawer for a year and my kimchi came out great, crunchy and sour after about 4 days on the counter. Now I wonder what other advice from him I followed without checking. Anyone else get steered toward gear they never actually needed?
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jesse_smith1016h ago
Why does every hobby have that one guy who acts like you need the fancy gear or it won't work? I rode bikes for years with a cheapo helmet and a $30 pump, then some guy at a shop told me I needed a $200 torque wrench or I'd strip my frame. Same thing happened when I got into bread baking, bought a proofing basket and a lame and all this stuff, then just used a bowl and a knife and it worked fine. It's like the gear becomes a stand-in for the skill, and the longer someone's been doing it, the more they swear by their setup.
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