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2.5% of veggie weight? Or water weight?

I always use 3% of water weight, which in more consistent than weighing the veggies, because the amount of water can vary.

Very unusual to see food-related content on HN. I love it!

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Jalapenos are like 90% water. So if you take 1kg of water and 1kg of Jalapenos you'll have 1.9kg of water, 2.5% of that if you want to have 2.5%.

Ah, I see!

For the vac bag I just do total weight, since things are almost entirely water anyway I think it'll work out about the same.

> Very unusual to see food-related content on HN. I love it!

:) me too. I really love lacto fermenting things, it's a nice old technique that's very forgiving and rewarding. The flavour you get out of it makes so many things pop, and the noma book is full of ideas (even if I'll never make them quite as fancy)

I'm doing a bunch of kefir now, and someday I'd like to do koji.

Water kefir is fun during summertime to have something a bit more healthy than soda. (Until a bottle flavored with raspberry explodes and turns your kitchen walls pink....)

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