Why the temperature you cook at decides what you eat
Cooking usually kills the cultures you fermented butter to get. Fat shields them from heat, so a 55 to 60C cook keeps them live to the plate.
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What to add to a chamber vac ferment, and why most home recipes get it wrong
Most home ferment recipes assume you can take a crock-style spice blend and bag it. You can’t. The…
Salt, bag, time, system. The chamber vacuum method end to end.
Three Field Notes covered the variables. This one is the protocol that uses all three. The Neutral Base…
Salt, bag, time. The third variable runs the biology.
Salt sets the chemistry. The bag delivers the pressure. Time runs the biology, and the chamber vac does…
Fermentation, rebuilt for a body under pressure.
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