How Kiddie Pools of Kimchi Bind Korean Families Together

Gastro Obscura ^ | January 5, 2018 | Natasha Frost

[2ndDivisionVet]

It's an acquired taste for most Westerners.

[Intolerant in NJ]

My mouth still burns - from fifty years ago....

[Rio]

I’ve been known to make some kimchi. good stuff.

[GreatRoad]

I love kimchi, hard to find it tho.

[exDemMom]

I tried kimchi several times, and finally determined that I will never acquire that taste. Ever.

[GnuThere]

Supposedly fermented food is good for you - I’ve tried kimchi but prefer Bubbies Sauerkraut.

[Ransomed]

It’s an acquired taste that I am glad I acquired. The trick was getting past the smell, it tastes nothing like it smells, at least for me with the good stuff at the Asian market.

Freegards

[2ndDivisionVet]

In Burlington and Cambridge there are H-Marts (Korean full sized grocery stores) are you close to one of those?

[OldMissileer]

My Mother-in-Law is Japanese and makes Kimchi and I love it. My wife thinks I am an alien as she can’t stand the stuff. She won’t make it so I have to go to a large international food market one county north to buy some good Kimchi.

[rrrod]

Kimchi salute!

[JimRed]

...coated with a red paste made of sugar, chili pepper, oyster sauce, and tiny fermented decomposing shrimps. Garlic, ginger, and scallions add even more flavor.

[JimRed]

Supposedly fermented food is good for you - I’ve tried kimchi but prefer Bubbies Sauerkraut.

What's the distinction between fermented and spoiled?

[Politically Correct]

What's the distinction between fermented and spoiled?

Intention.

[GnuThere]

Haha, umm, the former doesn’t put you in the hospital?

[Joe 6-pack]

I spent three years in the ROK and developed an affinity for good kimchi. The trouble in the US is that most restaurant and commercial kimchis you find in grocery stores are poorly prepared and soggy. Fresh kimchi has a little crunch to it. The smell, to me, is little different than the smell of spicy dill pickles.

As for the decomposing shrimp, were you aware that the original A1 steak sauce had anchovies dissolved in vinegar as an ingredient?

[heartwood]

If there is a trader joes near you, they have it. Also costco, industrial-sized.

I like it but don’t often have the hankering for it. It has a bite and squeak to it, unlike all the wilted, sulfurous sauerkraut ever offered to me.

[heartwood]

What's the distinction between fermented and spoiled?

Beer and swill.

[American in Israel]

Easiest way to make it homemade for beginners is the perfect pickler kit available on Amazon.

To supercharge its natural enzymes to combat adrenal burnout ferment with mixed natural salts, sea, pink, Hawaiian etc.

To boost its probiotic effect mix with sour cream as a chip dip.

To combat candida, IBD and colitis drink homemade milk kiefir with it.

[a fool in paradise]

Korean kimchi kiddie pool family binding?

Is that like Chinese foot binding?

[JimRed]

As for the decomposing shrimp, were you aware that the original A1 steak sauce had anchovies dissolved in vinegar as an ingredient?

Doesn't the vinegar (pickling) preserve it so it won't decompose?