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Dino, I know that Kimchi is very healthy and contains many probiotics, but I have no idea how to make it.

I did a post last year. Almost any of the online recipies will work.

You can have any of my future never made, uneaten kimchi also, along with what you make.

old dino, I asked my wife, and she said she just followed these 2 ladies on YouTube to make it. Nothing special or secret that is her own. Sorry.

I make a batch from scratch every three weeks or so and have rotating jars in my fridge. (Much to Mr. Gong Show's chagrin - he's German by heritage.) In my experience it's not so much the recipe used but rather how it's fermented. Fermenting in plastic containers (even BPA free ones) tasted terrible. Glass was better but still made the leaves a little mushy. Oongi has been the best.

Equally important is the kimchi paste. If you're going to make it, perfect the kimchi paste to your taste and work out from there. All the flavor comes from the paste itself. There's about 8,000 (okay, exaggeration) different varieties of kimchi so just experiment. Kimchi is the basis for so much awesome Korean food.

Not as important is how well you salt the cabbage leaves. Undersalting is worse than oversalting. What veggies you put in the paste is up to you but green onion is a must. I also do not use the shrimp as I have never cared for the grittiness it produces once fermented. I just use extra fish sauce.

For the record, you've now made me hungry.

I made it for a while, but concluded it was cheaper and faster to buy it locally than go through the process. Flavor wise, there was not enough advantage to make it at home either; you couldn’t really tell them apart when comparing batch-to-batch. Keep on, if you are getting great results, good for you!

Oriental Redneck posted a video by Maangchi. I love her recipes. they all seem to work. I did her makgeolli (rice wine) recipe as well, which was pretty tasty.

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/makgeolli

basically you can't go wrong with her.

If you make and eat kimchi, don't be surprised, when people are moving away from you on the bus.

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Originally posted by NK402:
If you make and eat kimchi, don't be surprised, when people are moving away from you on the bus.

In married student housing we had Korean neighbors who made great kimchi. Somehow I understand what you are saying.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:

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Originally posted by NK402:
If you make and eat kimchi, don't be surprised, when people are moving away from you on the bus.

In married student housing we had Korean neighbors who made great kimchi. Somehow I understand what you are saying.

Can you guys remind me? Is it body odor or flatulence?

Early in our marriage, my wife allowed me one jar of kimchi every month. After a while she made me stop. I don't remember if she gave me a reason. I've since not had kimchi unless we go out to a korean restaurant or our dry cleaner gave me a jar last year that she made.

Perilla leaf kimchi is a version worth considering.

I don't know how they made Kimchi when I was in Korea, but the smell of it when they opened the crock would knock a Buzzard out of a tree.

I spent a year in Korea, so I am quite familiar with Kimchi. For regular users, it's not just bad breath, the odor seems to emanate from their pores. Two years ago, I was with a friend in Las Vegas, leaving the airport on a bus to the rental car depot. I was sitting on a bench seat between my friend and another man. The smell, which I didn't recognize at first, was so bad that I had to turn in my seat, so that I was facing my friend in order to breathe. It wasn't until we reached the depot, that I realized the man beside me was not the offender. It was the Korean gentleman beside him. All I could think about was how long it was going to take to fumigate that guy's rental car, when he was done with it, sort of like Seinfeld's BMW, that they couldn't rid of the BO smell.

I love kimchi and buy it at the Oriental supermarket.

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Originally posted by NK402:
If you make and eat kimchi, don't be surprised, when people are moving away from you on the bus.

It is an acquired taste. One that I've never been able to develop.

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Originally posted by NK402:
I spent a year in Korea, so I am quite familiar with Kimchi. For regular users, it's not just bad breath, the odor seems to emanate from their pores. Two years ago, I was with a friend in Las Vegas, leaving the airport on a bus to the rental car depot. I was sitting on a bench seat between my friend and another man. The smell, which I didn't recognize at first, was so bad that I had to turn in my seat, so that I was facing my friend in order to breathe. It wasn't until we reached the depot, that I realized the man beside me was not the offender. It was the Korean gentleman beside him. All I could think about was how long it was going to take to fumigate that guy's rental car, when he was done with it, sort of like Seinfeld's BMW, that they couldn't rid of the BO smell.

That’s too bad. I really love the stuff. Although having never been to Korea, I may not have ever had the authentic version.