Fermentation Guides

Guides

• The best home fermentation supplies (2026)

  What you actually need to start — jars, airlock lids, glass weights, crocks, salt, and a kombucha kit — with picks for mason-jar fermenters and crock fermenters.

• How much salt for sauerkraut

  The 2%-salt-by-weight rule, brine percentages for other ferments, and a worked example so you never guess again.

• Kombucha: first and second ferment

  Sweet-tea and starter ratios, what the SCOBY does, F1/F2 timing and temperatures, and how to get reliable carbonation.