Wandering Adventure Party

Awe you guys are so helpful. And it’s just a pickle jar. I think i have another in the fridge. It’s a good lesson though. Thank you! If anything else i was planning on putting it in a box wearing safety glasses welding a hammer with small taps.

Oh interesting! Then only use that jar for storage. That’s a really good idea! Thanks!

Yeah I’m planning on getting everything out to another jar before anything

Okay! Sounds careful. But from what I’ve read could be effective!

What kind of string?

I have a diamond tipped drill bit that I use to drill holes in pots. While not the correct tool, at all, I wonder if it could work. Edit: no drill, that would be psycho. Lol

I’m hoping so!

Wow thank you!

Okay. So, I didn’t have a large enough jar to fit all my ingredients, so i was like I have this pickle jar. Mind you I’m pretty new to fermentation but I’ve read a shit ton of cookbooks. I thought, this will work. I get my brine and load everything up, brine it up, and then a split second before it’s too late, realize the glass fermentation weight is exactly the same size as the mouth of this cheap jar. By that point it was too late and stuck.

So i was left with two options, let it be stuck or use the handle of my knife to gently tampen it into the jar. I did the latter.

Sooooo now I’m thinking I’m going to try to move the weight to the side and remove the contents when it’s done, and break the cheap jar to get the expensive weight.

What do you think?

edit: UPDATE: I couldn’t get it out, su I placed the jar in a paper bag and tapped just once with a hammer and retrieved the weight. Then I placed the paper bag in a box, taped it up and wide tipped sharpied GLASS on all sides. (It’s what my city waste disposal recommends to do with sharp broken glass from residential). The ferment is okay and so is the weight.