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Vegetables from Germany, Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, Alsace, Netherlands, USA
Sauerkraut
Finely shredded white cabbage is mixed with about 2 % salt and pressed down until its own juice covers it. Lactic bacteria sour it over three to six weeks, Leuconostoc first and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum last. The finished kraut is refrigerated or canned. Made in 6 steps over 28 days – 49 days. The longest step, homolactic finish, takes 21–42 days (National Center for Home Food Preservation (U…) and runs at 16–24 °C (National Center for Home Food Preservation (U…). Salt is 2–2.3 % (Johanningsmeier S 2007). Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Weissella do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceThe National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) tested recipe. 25 lb of cabbage makes about 9 quarts, salted 5 lb at a time. Commercial kraut uses 2.0–2.25 % salt by weight, the level Pederson and Albury found best.
25 lb (about 11 kg)
Cabbage · Firm, fresh heads, shredded 24–48 hours after harvest[nchfp-kraut]
¾ cup
Canning or pickling salt · 3 Tbsp for each 5 lb batch of shredded cabbage[nchfp-kraut]
1½ Tbsp per quart of water
Extra brine, only if the juice does not cover the cabbage · Boiled and cooled before use[nchfp-kraut]
Starter
spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 28 days – 49 days
Start
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What changes:A cut line slices the cored heads into shreds about as thick as a coin
Step 1 of 6
Trim, core and shred 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
L. mesenteroides
Weissella
Levilactobacillus brevis
Pediococcus pentosaceus
Weissella make
Discard the outer leaves, rinse and drain the heads, quarter them and cut out the cores. Output: shreds about as thick as a quarter.
Flavour
Not documented
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 uses dry salt alone on finely shredded cabbage and ferments in the juice the salt draws out, at cellar-to-room temperature. Kimchi is brined, rinsed and seasoned with a chilli paste and ripens cold.
Choucroute d'AlsaceAlsatian sauerkraut, protected as an EU PGI since 2018.
Ogulinski kiseli kupusCroatian sauerkraut from the Ogulin area, protected as an EU PDO since 2015.
Low-salt starter krautA Leuconostoc mesenteroides starter lets the salt drop by half, to 1 %, with firm texture kept.
Safety
Follow the NCHFP salt amounts and ferment at 70–75 °F; below 60 °F kraut may not ferment. A steady fall in pH below 4.6 holds back Clostridium botulinum and kills E. coli O157:H7 (Snyder et al.). Store the finished kraut covered in the refrigerator, or can it in a boiling-water canner; these are the only two ways NCHFP gives to keep it.
Hazards the sources name: Escherichia coli O157:H7, killed as the pH falls; Clostridium botulinum, held back once the pH is below 4.6.
Roman writers such as Cato and Columella describe salting cabbage. The story that sauerkraut came west with the Golden Horde has no support. Captain Cook carried sauerkraut on his voyages against scurvy.