Episode 11 – Listener Feedback, Cashew Cheese, Mold, & Food Safety

Today I have an interesting mix of a show with a first time of listener feedback where I go over emails that people have written me and questions relating to fermentation or the show. I also remind everyone that just listens to the podcast and doesn’t get out to the website, there’s tons of pictures here!

I go over in detail the recipe for a basic vegan fermented cashew cheese and the round the show off with some of the posts I’ve done recently on mold & food safety. If you haven’t seen some of the pictures of the up close shots of mold, it will boggle the mind.

TOPICS INCLUDED IN TODAY’S FERMENTATION PODCAST:

• The first listener feedback segment of the show where I cover
  • Someone making holiday pickles
  • A show suggestion of aerobic vs. anaerobic fermentation and the idea of a “fermentary”
  • Having fermentation knowledge in a SHTF scenario and making food last longer in things like a just a power outage like what you’d get from a snow storm or a hurricane
  • Thoughts on a SHTF scenario in terms of long term storable food like grains and beans and making tempeh from soybeans
  • One listener shares a good recipe for Pineapple Slices and Hot Peppers in a Salt Brine
  • One person’s theory on the origin of fermenting from peoples living near the sea shore and a fermented duck egg that’s fermented for a year
  • The interesting idea of fermenting things by burying them at the beach to let the salt brine cure them
  • The microbiome diet and how a 76 year old man keeps healthy, happy, and gets out to walk along with eating fermented foods on a daily basis
  • A question on whether I strain the ginger bug before putting it into the ginger ale batch and whether I fill the jar of ginger but back up with water along with sugar and more ginger
  • Thoughts on becoming profitable and selling fermentation equipment and also maybe creating a sponsorship or members section where members could get discounts on fermentation related items from businesses
  • Questions on how long it should be before getting bubbles when making sauerkraut
  • My question to you of did you like this listener feedback segment and should I keep it on the show?
• Making a basic vegan cashew cheese recipe using rejuvelac and a lot of ideas to alter that recipe and make some killer fermented “cheese”
• I cover the topic of mold and go through the post of Five Questions on Mold and Food Safety which involve these five questions
  • What is mold and why is there mold on top of my sauerkraut, pickles, etc.?
  • Is it harmful or dangerous to eat mold and what can it do to you?
  • Is it safe to scrape mold off the surface of a brine and then eat the ferment that is below the brine level?
  • Aren’t you afraid of mycotoxins and doesn’t mold have roots?
  • How can I prevent mold from growing on my ferments and what do I do now that I have it?

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