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Dambukjang is a quick soybean paste made before the year's new doenjang is ready. Crumbled meju is mixed with warm water and a little salt and kept in a warm place for three to seven days. The steps below follow historical recipes.
Fully documentedSauces and condiments3 days – 10 days
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedHistorical household recipes with no amounts. The Jeungbo Sallim Gyeongje recipe uses a small jar.
Small meju blocks
Made between autumn and winter, fermented and dried, then broken up in early spring[aks-dambuk]
Total time across the recorded steps: 3 days – 10 days
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What changes:Small soybean blocks ferment and dry through autumn and winter
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Make small meju blocks and let them ferment and dry
Time
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Salt
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Acidity
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One newspaper account says the meju is made around November. Output: small dried meju blocks.
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Microbes at work in this step
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Method
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At a glance
Dambukjang is a quick soybean paste made before the year's new doenjang is ready. Crumbled meju is mixed with warm water and a little salt and kept in a warm place for three to seven days. The steps below follow historical recipes. Made in 4 steps over 3 days – 10 days. The longest step, mix with warm water and a little salt and keep warm, takes 3–10 days (Yun Deok-in 1995 (rev. 2023)).
Dambukjang is made to eat before the year's new doenjang is ready. It is ready in days, because the crumbled meju is fermented warm with only a little salt and nothing is drawn off.
RDA farm-processing recipe (2011)Roasted soybeans are made into meju blocks 5–6 cm across, fermented 5–6 days and dried; salt water is poured over them, and red pepper powder, garlic and salt go in, with 7–10 days of fermenting in a warm place.
Joseon Yoribeop dambukjang (1938)Finely ground meju mixed with red pepper powder, left overnight, then seasoned with soy sauce and salt; 3–4 days in a warm place if needed quickly.
Bang Sin-yeong's dambukjang (1958)Roasted, cracked and boiled soybeans kept under leaves or straw in a warm room for 4–5 days until sticky threads form, then mixed with radish, ginger, red pepper and salt and set in the sun.
Safety
No source we read gives a pH, a salt percentage or a measured hazard for dambukjang. The recipes ferment it warm and quickly with only a little salt, and it may be eaten without cooking, so nothing we read shows this method is safe. In doenjang, a related meju-based paste, 49 of 60 samples held at least one mycotoxin, and aflatoxin B1 turned up more often in homemade paste (11 of 30) than in commercial paste (5 of 30) (Woo et al. 2019). The study reports one sample over a Korean limit, a commercial paste with 23.27 µg/kg ochratoxin A.
Hazards the sources name: Mycotoxins (aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, zearalenone, fumonisins), found in a related meju-based Korean soybean paste, doenjang; not measured in dambukjang.
The Jeungbo Sallim Gyeongje records the method as damsujang (淡水醬法). A 2013 newspaper series places dambukjang among high-temperature quick doenjang made since early Joseon.
Temperature, salt and pH
The sources we found give no temperature, salt or pH figure for any of its steps.