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Napa cabbage is soaked in brine until the leaves bend, rinsed, and coated leaf by leaf with a paste of chilli, garlic, radish and salted seafood. It starts at room temperature for a day or two, then ripens cold until it is sour and fizzy. Made in 6 steps over 11 days – 15 days. The longest step, ripen cold, takes 10 days (Lee M.-E 2015) and runs at up to 5 °C (Snyder A 2020). Salt is 8–15 % → 2 % (Battcock M. and Azam-Ali S. 1998). Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Weissella do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceThe amounts are Oregon State University Extension's small batch (about 3 cups), which wilts cut cabbage with dry salt and ferments it 1–4 days before the fridge. The steps show the traditional way, with whole quarters soaked in brine.
Korean chilli flakes and fish sauce or salted shrimp · The traditional paste; OSU's second recipe uses ½ cup chilli flakes and 1 Tbsp fish sauce per quart jar[osu-kimchi]
Starter
spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 11 days – 15 days
Start
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What changes:A cut line splits each head into quarters so the brine can reach every leaf
Step 1 of 6
Halve or quarter the cabbage
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Leuconostoc
Weissella
L. mesenteroides
L. plantarum
FAO's flow chart cuts each head into four so the brine reaches every leaf. Output: cabbage halves or quarters.
Flavour
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Texture
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Colour
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Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Sauerkraut is dry-salted and ferments in its own juice. Baechu kimchi is brined first, rinsed, then seasoned leaf by leaf with a chilli, garlic and seafood paste, and it ripens cold for weeks, so Leuconostoc stays in charge longer.
MugeunjiLong-aged kimchi, kept 6 months to years in cold storage; very sour and soft, used for stews.
Bossam kimchiKaesong style; seafood, chestnut, pear and pine nuts wrapped in a cabbage-leaf parcel.
GeotjeoriFresh salad kimchi, eaten the same day; not fermented.
KimjangThe winter batch, kept in onggi jars buried in the ground (see kimjang-onggi-burial).
Safety
Kimchi is safe when its pH falls steadily below 4.6. That limit holds back Clostridium botulinum and lets the acid kill E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella, so Snyder et al. make it the one critical control point, and Western Australia's health department uses the same limit. Store kimchi covered at 5 °C or below; Oregon State University Extension says to keep it refrigerated.
Hazards the sources name: Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella, killed as the pH falls; Clostridium botulinum, held back once the pH is below 4.6; Staphylococcus aureus, reported in kimchi products.
In Lee and Lee's 1990 survey of 61 old Korean cookbooks, baechu kimchi appears in 9 and radish dongchimi in 24. Whole-cabbage kimchi is young, because heading cabbage only reached Korea in the 19th century. Chilli powder first appears in a cucumber kimchi in Sallim gyeongje, and salted seafood in a seokbakji in Gyuhap chongseo (1809).