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Fermentation Atlas

United States

50 ferments from United States, with how each is made.

50 entries listed here.

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FermentKindMain stepTemperatureSaltpH
Brick cheeseCheeseat least 2 months10 °C
Cheese curdsCheese3–7 days4 °C
ColbyCheeseat least 2 monthsat least 2 °C5.1 → 5.4
Cultured buttermilkFermented milkup to 3 daysup to 4 °C0.3 %
Herman (Hermann) friendship cake starterCereals and bread4 days
Kosher dill pickles (half-sour and full-sour)Vegetables4–6 months7 %6.1–6.2 → 4.4
Leipäjuusto / juustoleipä (squeaky cheese)Cheese1.5 h6.6
LimburgerCheeseat least 2 monthsat least 2 °C4.8
Lutefisk (boundary: alkali, not microbial)Other5–7 days9.8–10.9
Monterey JackCheese21–42 days
Queso fresco (Mexico, Central and South America)Cheeseup to 7 daysup to 4 °C1.5–2 %6.6–6.9
RejuvelacSoft drinks2 days23–27 °C3.8–4.3
San Francisco sourdough French breadCereals and bread7–8 h26.7 °C2 %
SauerkrautVegetables21–42 days16–24 °C2–2.3 %3.4–3.5
Tabasco pepper mashSauces and condimentsup to 3 years
Commercial bulk fermented cucumbers (full-sour salt stock)Vegetablesup to 12 months6 %up to 3.5
LiederkranzCheese21–28 days7 °C
Acidophilus milk (US therapeutic sour milk, 1920s–1930s)Fermented milk
Alaskan aged fish heads ('stinkheads') and aged marine-mammal flipperFish and seafood
Barrel-aged pepper mash hot sauce (Tabasco style)Sauces and condimentsup to 3 years8 %
Bayley Hazen BlueCheese3–4 months
Bees wine (beer bees, Californian bees)Alcoholic drinks7 days
Bulgarian buttermilk (US)Fermented milk
Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail sourdough starterCereals and bread
Ciss'uq (pit-fermented herring or capelin)Fish and seafood14 days
Clabber / bonny clabberFermented milk24 h – 2 days
Fermented seal flipperMeat
HarbisonCheese
Hard kombuchaAlcoholic drinks7–14 days
Humboldt FogCheese
JunSoft drinks3–7 days20–24 °C
Koji-cured and koji-aged meatsMeat
Nawait (saguaro wine)Alcoholic drinks
Non-grape fruit wines (cherry, sour-cherry, elderberry, mulberry, pomegranate, plum, pineapple)Alcoholic drinksup to 27 days22–24 °C
PaluFish and seafood
Pepper JackCheese
Pepperoni (American fermented dry sausage)Meat
Pineapple wine (Maui Blanc and Asian pineapple wines)Alcoholic drinks
Pleasant Ridge ReserveCheese
Precision-fermented bovine lactoferrinOther
Precision-fermented brazzein (sweet protein)Other
Precision-fermented food proteins (industrial category)Other
Red chilli mash for hot sauce (natural long fermentation)Sauces and condiments14 days – 3 years
Red HawkCheese14 days
Salt-rising breadCereals and bread9–11 h41–46 °C
Spruce beer (bière d'épinette)Alcoholic drinksup to 7 days
Stinky eggs (fermented salmon roe)Fish and seafood
Teleme (California)Cheese
Tepa (stinkheads)Fish and seafood
WinnimereCheese

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