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Kham yeast is not generally considered a bad thing. It's a wild yeast that gets into many fements and it's completely harmless. But its presence indicates that there might be imbalances in the ferment. It usually feeds on sugar (I didn't add any sugar, so obviously from the peppers) and can't...

Non-iodized table salt. For most ferments I use beween 2 and 3 T per quart. 5 t is just under 2 T. I normally make up a quart of brine and use what is necessary to cover the material. Too much salt might kill the bacteria and make the ferment fail that way, but it wouldn't make bad bacteria...

Only a canning question indirectly, as I was planning to can fermented hot sauce. Every time I try to ferment peppers they go sour. Does anyone have a process they use for fermented peppers? I used 3 T of salt in the fermentation bottle this time rather than making up a quart of brine and...

I've trapped probably 20 mice in the last week. 5 yesterday, one so far this morning. Only 1 trap, because the silly creatures actually ate the bait flapper off the other one. Why in the world would anyone make that particular piece out of plastic? I think we know... I removed their primary...

At that point some of my siblings were obsessed with a picture book called "Pickle chiffon pie" about a king who would eat nothing else.

My Dad once made Pickle Chiffon Pie for a company party. Nobody was willing to try it. Very sad. (Pistachio pudding and green food coloring in the topping. It was actually pretty good).

Yes, and yes. Have enough in the freezer for at least one batch, probably two, and I'm picking them over every morning. I choose which I want to eat that day, and everything else goes in the feezer. They're on dehydrator trays, so if one starts to leak the others aren't sitting in a puddle. I'm...

I did a batch of salsa. My sister wanted (very) mild, her husband wanted hot and neither of them likes cilantro, so I did hers with just sweet peppers, added hot peppers next, and added cilantro for my own. Some time next week I need to do a batch of tomatoes.

I'm hoping some of my trees produce next year. This year I got two peaches and a few cherries. The rest of the peaches and the apples blew off the trees. The garden should be in full production next year! Primarily sweet corn, popcorn, dry beans, green beans, tomatoes, peppers, onions, herbs...

I'm grateful that she called me. She could have just thrown out the lot and I would never have known. I've been holding on to my last bottle of tomatoes like a treasure. I got everything sorted and washed yesterday, the boxes should be dry this morning so I can get them back to her.

Happy ending! I got them! I got a call from my friend this afternoon asking me to come get them, since they were smelling up her house and her mother wasn't doing anything with them. We got all the rotten stuff sorted out and I ended up with two boxes fully ripe that I'll process in the next...

My guess is that his knees are part of the problem with the gym. That being said, there might be lots of reasons. My Dad refused to go to the gym because of all the scantilly clad ladies. He also loved swimming but he would never go for the same reason. I agree that depending on his...

Eat for life is the big one here. It's not an easy situation, but you can make small changes that may have huge effects. A little less sugar, a little less salt. If he automatically salts his food, omit salt in the preparation. Light syrup in canning. That kind of thing. If he doesn't like...

I always stored bottles with rings on. Simpler that way. I also got people sniping at me that I was Doing It Wrong. Made no sense to me, until I moved to an area with high humidity. Rings rusted on, even if they were fully dry. Some habits are very much environmental-- that doesn't make them...

I think they were Kerr. I would have to dig the box out of the garbage.

I had two failures this week. Both new lids. When I checked them after, both had bubbles in the seal. I check the used lids pretty carefully.

Yeah, i get a better seal rate with used lids. I need to get in the habit of inspecting the new lids the same way.

Bottles are for storage. Thou shalt not open! I do the same thing! :lau

I woke up angry this morning and I'm trying to identify the reason. Lots of things have come up, but the "inner tightwad" comment, while true for me as well, brought another into perspective. I mentioned that I stripped a friend's garden. Well, I thought it was just going to be me, but her...

They're harder to peel, so I use the weird shaped ones for puree or sauce. I do quarter them for bottling.