Feta-style cheese, hot whey-brined
Whole milk set with a mesophilic starter and rennet makes a fresh, crumbly feta-style cheese. Its curds pass through hot salted whey before molding.
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Plain yogurt
A mild, set yogurt made by inoculating warm pasteurized milk with live-culture yogurt and holding it until it gels. This US extension method uses a short ingredient list and controlled incubation.
Quark
Quark is a soft, fresh curd cheese used in spreads and desserts. This small home batch sets milk with mesophilic culture and rennet before refrigerated drainage.
Attiéké
Ivorian cassava semolina: grated cassava is fermented overnight with a traditional inoculum, pressed, sieved into granules, dried and steamed. Documented in a 2006 field study; no sole original process is established.
Nukazuke cucumber in a rice-bran bed
Cucumber ferments in a maintained rice-bran bed seeded through repeated vegetable scrap picklings; the record includes the starter-bed method.
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Soijim
The sour liquid that forms during Manipuri Soidon fermentation, kept to start the next batch and used to sour curries.
Cappero di Pantelleria
A protected Sicilian product: unopened caper buds from the island of Pantelleria, dry-salted with sea salt in a two-stage process that encourages lactic fermentation.
Phak sian dong (pickled spider plant)
Phak sian dong is a Thai pickle of spider-plant tips and flowers (Cleome gynandra), salted and packed with cooked rice. Northeastern Thai and Lao Khrang accounts give different methods.
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Narezushi (funazushi)
A documentary account of funazushi, Shiga’s long-ripened narezushi associated with Lake Biwa and roe-bearing nigorobuna. It preserves regional, historical and cultural context; it is not a household preparation guide.
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Narezushi
A documentary account of Japanese narezushi, a family of salted-fish and rice ferments. This entry preserves the East Kishu (Mie) source’s identity and regional context without providing a household preparation method.
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Mustard-leaf gundruk (Brassica juncea)
Mustard leaves wilted, bruised and packed tight into an earthenware vessel to sour without salt, then sun-dried into dark tangled pieces that carry Himalayan meals through the year.
Mesu
Tender bamboo shoots fermented without salt in a hollow bamboo tube for about one to two weeks in Sikkim and Darjeeling, eaten as a sour pickle or in curry.
Långfil and tettemelk
Långfil and tettemelk are traditional Swedish and Norwegian cultured milks with a mild sour taste and a stretchy texture produced by ropy lactic acid bacteria.
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Lacto-fermented garlic cloves
A small brine ferment of peeled garlic; the video also demonstrates optional onion and herbs.
Lacto-fermented okra pickles
Whole okra packs into a pint jar with garlic, salt, whey and water for a short room-temperature fermentation.
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Kocho
Ethiopia's fermented enset staple: the scraped leaf sheaths and pounded corm of Ensete ventricosum packed into a leaf-lined pit, where lactic fermentation turns them into a sour mass that keeps and is later baked as flatbread.
Kkakdugi
A radish kimchi cut into cubes and seasoned with gochugaru, fish sauce, garlic and ginger, eaten fresh or fermented a few days at room temperature.
Home-style Neufchâtel
Pasteurized milk cultured with buttermilk or yogurt and set with rennet makes this soft, smooth Neufchâtel-style cheese, pressed into small forms and chilled.
Katyk (qatiq)
Katyk is a traditional fermented milk of Turkic-speaking peoples, made by souring heated milk with lactic bacteria, often with a spoonful of the last batch, into a thick, sour curd.
Toroī with pūhā or watercress
Dixon's 2007 thesis records ten toroi study batches, five with puha and five with watercress, each from 2 kg of shell-on green-lipped mussels and about 600 g of greens. Its method is a laboratory one.
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Hot sauce (fermented pepper)
Fresh hot peppers ferment beneath a measured salt brine, then become a bright, tangy sauce blended from the peppers and their liquor.
Set yogurt
Set yogurt keeps the milk’s cultured gel intact in its final container. This Canadian home method follows the same heating and inoculation as stirred yogurt, without the final stirring.
Cultured butter
Cultured butter is churned from cream soured with lactic cultures. Its lightly tart flavour comes from the cultured cream, which separates into butter grains and buttermilk.
Sauerreuben (fermented turnips)
Shredded turnips and carrots are dry-salted, pressed beneath their juice and fermented as a cabbage-free kraut-style preserve.
Chonggak-kimchi (ponytail radish kimchi)
Small ponytail radishes keep their greens attached and ferment in a flour-and-chile seasoning paste.
Pak-kaat-dorng (sweet rice-wash method)
Thai sweet mustard greens wilted in sun, packed in earthenware under a salt and palm-sugar brine with rice-wash water, then sunned three to five days.
Pak-kaat-dorng (dry-salted rice method)
Pak-kaat-dorng is a Thai fermented mustard-green pickle, prepared here by dry-salting and kneading the wilted greens with cooked rice.
Baechu kimchi
Napa cabbage salted, seasoned with a paste of gochugaru, garlic, ginger and salted seafood, and left to sour through lactic fermentation; Korea's everyday winter preserve.
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Sunki
Sunki is a salt-free pickle from Japan's Kiso valley: red-turnip leaves fermented with a retained starter from the previous year's batch.
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Sinki
Sinki is a salt-free, fermented radish-taproot product dried after fermentation. Published jar and pit accounts use different conditions; neither supplies a validated home-preservation endpoint.
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Suan cai
Chinese cabbage or mustard greens salted and held under a weight until lactic fermentation turns them sour; northeastern and southern China keep distinct traditions of it.
Setaka no takana-zuke
Giant red mustard leaves are dried, layered with salt and chile, pressed in a wooden tub, drained after a week and left through the rainy season.
Cultured buttermilk
Cultured buttermilk is skim milk soured with a lactic starter into a tangy drink. This Canadian home method sets the milk without churning cream.
Crème fraîche
Crème fraîche is cream soured by lactic cultures into a thick, mild topping. It suits fruit and desserts as well as soups, sauces and other savoury dishes.
Red cabbage sauerkraut
Red cabbage shredded, salted and fermented in its own brine; the pigment gives a deep violet kraut with a sharper flavour than the white-cabbage form.
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Cacciatore salami
Small Italian hunter-style salami of lean pork, firm fat, salt, pepper and garlic, mildly acidified and dry-matured; protected as Salamini Italiani alla Cacciatora DOP.
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Kampala-style probiotic kwete from roasted maize flour
A Ugandan maize drink remade with a defined two-strain starter: roasted maize dough boiled to porridge, cooled and fermented under controlled conditions.
Aarchi and kurut (Altai dried curd)
A two-stage Altai dairy preparation: sour chegen is heated into soft aarchi, then portions are drained, pressed and traditionally smoked into firm kurut.
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Western Kenyan fermented finger-millet uji
A thin, sour porridge of western Kenya made by fermenting unroasted finger-millet flour in water for a day or two, then diluting it and cooking it through.
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White gari from fermented cassava
White gari is grated cassava fermented for three days, then pressed, sieved and toasted dry into a coarse West African meal eaten soaked or as a stiff porridge.
Fermented dill pickles
Trimmed cucumbers layered with dill and covered with a salt brine containing 5% vinegar, weighted and fermented three to six weeks.
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Cultured queso fresco
Cultured buttermilk, pasteurized milk, vinegar and rennet make this soft, crumbly queso fresco by a New Mexico home method adapted from Washington’s Abuela Project.
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Tulum peyniri, yogurt-cultured method
Tulum peyniri is a Turkish cheese traditionally packed into animal-skin bags to mature. This sheep-milk method adds a thermophilic yogurt culture before renneting, draining and dry salting.
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Sai krok Isan, starter-cultured
Sai krok Isan is a sour pork-and-rice sausage from northeastern Thailand. This garlic-rich version uses LHP-Dry starter and is cooked after fermentation.
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Rayo-sag gundruk
Wilted and shredded Brassica rapa rayo-sag leaves, packed under warm water in earthenware, fermented five to seven days, then sun-dried as Nepali gundruk.
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Radish-leaf gundruk
Radish greens wilted, packed into an earthen pot with warm water and fermented without salt, then sun-dried into Nepal's dark, sour gundruk.
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Pa-kimchi with fruit and anchovy seasoning
Scallion kimchi coated with fruit, chili, rice paste and salted-seafood seasonings, following one Korean creator’s measured batch.
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Low-moisture pizza mozzarella
An eight-litre cow’s-milk batch uses thermophilic culture and rennet before controlled curd acidification, hot-water stretching and chilling for pizza cheese.
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Mixed vegetables in one-litre brine
A 2 L jar holds cut carrot, radish, cauliflower, zucchini and pepper under a one-litre salt brine with aromatics; the source gives no produce mass or qualified endpoint.
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Nabak-kimchi with pear and apple
Cabbage-and-radish water kimchi with pear, apple and strained chili broth, following one Korean creator’s batch.