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Kimchi in Space
rtknox00 writes "For astronauts spending months in space, the smallest touch of home can make a big difference. So when South Korea's first astronaut Ko San boards the International Space Station this April he'll be bringing along a hefty supply of kimchi, the national dish of his native country. While bringing a cherished food on a long journey might seem like a simple act, taking kimchi into space required millions of dollars in research and years of work." Science may never get Thorramatur in orbit.
Yes, it's nice that they are allowing this, however, I suspect that the smell will permeate everything in the station. Just saying.
...there goes my haggis.
is cabbage
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
What about Coca-Cola? No geek can go without it.
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Millions? How many scientist man years does it take at ~$300K/year to study a single food item?
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So thats where our tax money went... researching the fluid mechanics of kimchi in 0 g..
of this little "delicacy". mm, boiled sheep head.
Doolittle :
Bomb no.20 : To explode of course.
The spice! It's in my eyes! AUUUGHH! It burns!! The goggles... they do nothing!
in space no one can hear you fart.
I thought they banned "Mexican night" on the ISS because of the limited air supply, but they are letting this guy take his spicy sauerkraut? This kimchi thing sets a dangerous precedent.
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it's not durian.
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I can't wait until we see kimchi commercialized in this new form. Maybe it will be something like instant ramen noodle is to us now?
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And it's not a "comfort food" by any stretch of the imagination. It's pretty much eaten only out of respect for one's ancestors.
Bad enough any space station eventually ends up smelling like a men's room in Jersey City after a while.....they really want to add kimchi to the mix?
I encountered kimchi once. Imagine, if you will, the stinkiest, foulest, most gag-inducing fart you have ever smelled. Kimchi is worse.
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Kimchi stinks when you cook it. It just does. Especially in a microwave. Ye gods, the stench.
At least if the Korean's gastronomy is used to it, he won't foul the air twice.
But the Westerners had better lay off the stuff, or there will be hell to pay.
sigs, as if you care.
Just flying from NYC to Seoul on Korean Air is bad enough. Can't imagine being stuck in a confined space with all of the pre- and post- digestive smells associated with kimchi and the astronaut consuming it.
The space stations is a small enclosed space with air recirculating. The other astronaunts will thank South Korea for spending the millons of dollars ensuring that Kimchi is safe for space. Without the addition of alpha-galactosidase things could potentially get really nasty the day after eating Kimchi. The thought of the astronauts moving around the cabin being "jet propelled", leaves a silly grin on my face.
Research is what I doing when I don't know what I am doing - Werner von Braun
It smells nasty. I don't know what the research was, but I bet it started with "Dude - how long has this $*t been in the fridge?". The other scientist said "back off man, that's my lunch. I'm taking to the international space station." An argument amongst scientists ensues, research grants are approved, and the dude with the Kimchi won. And if he doesn't eat it in the air lock, the others are going to kill him.
I think the subject says it all.
Unbreakable toys can be used to break other toys.
Where do scientists earn $300k/year?
In the U.S., you have to be a tenured department chair, with a Howard Hughes fellowship or the likes of it... in order to make $300k/year as a scientist. I figure about 0.001% of all scientists fit that bill.
Graduate Students: $0 - $25k/year ($40-60k/year in the industry, as a technician)
Post Docs: $25k-35k/year ($40-100k/year in the industry, as a junior scientist, i.e. technician)
Fellows: $35-50k/year
Assistant/Associate professors: $50-60k/year
Full Professors w/o fellowships, etc: $60-150k/year
The vast majority of all scientists in the U.S. have trouble making ends meet... not earning $300k/year... and I am talking about the BIOMEDICAL scientists, who are the HIGHEST PAID.
Love it, but only with a lot, a lot of beer.
The problem with Kimchi is the farts.
Those farts can kill rats at a hundred yards.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Dak-Ho, would you suit up and go check that out, please?
Taking kimchi up in space - man, the smell of that stuff is brutal - and in space, you can't exactly crack the windows when he starts farting now, can you? Seriously, just because you _can_ take a smelly, nasty food up in space because people of your ethnicity eat it doesn't mean you _should_ take it up. There's the "bringing home with you so you don't get so lonely" deal but there's also the "having to live in a confined space with several other people that have nothing in common with you" deal. And bringing food that has a >0 chance of really bugging your fellow astronauts isn't the greatest idea. What's next, having an Icelandic astronaut bring some håkarl up, too?
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They cook it. The boil it, stew it, and bake it; they put it in salads, sandwiches, and snack trays.
But I'll grant you that it doesn't smell bad unless you cook it, so I'd certainly agree that it's something best not done.
sigs, as if you care.
Might actually be useful in space.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
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hope the astronauts kept themselves ouf of PF Chang's. Wait to see biggest poop in space in April!
If you've EVER been on a bus in Korea you know that this is not a good thing.
Morning breath has nothing on Kimchi breath.
On the other hand, Koreans say the same thing about Beef breath. Number 10 !!
Touche'
Ever been in an elevator in Seoul in the summertime? My advice to his fellow astronauts is to dig in so your, um, aromas blend together. . .
What?
where the ever diligent Frank Burns saw some Koreans burying mines or bombs in a field near their base. He went out with metal detectors and a few helpers to find and remove these nefarious devices. Hawkeye and B.J. tagged along to see how things went.
Needless to say, Frank finds one of these bombs and uncovers it. As he's standing there practically gloating to Hawkeye about being right, Hawkeye promptly opens the top, to Frank's evident distress, at which point a pungent odor wafts into the air. Hawkeye then lets Frank in on what's been happening and explains these are kim-chi pots the villagers are burying.
Funny what one can learn from watching t.v.
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In my own experience, if you live in a place long enough you adapt to the food such that you feel just as weird going "back in the other direction". I remember walking around a western supermarket for the first time in years and thinking "Ok, what the hell am I supposed to eat here".
Time to adapt for me personally; 2-3 years, and 3 years tops. After that, no craving for food that you were previously used to eating. You get totally localized.
I guess my point is, instead of packaging food that is obviously unsuitable for the purpose (because it fucking stinks for one), why not train to live on food that is especially suitable for space flight.
A scientist making $150K/year probably has a total cost to their employer close to $300K/year once all the ancillaries including retirement are factored in.
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when you can get Kimchi in orbit, but not on the Upper East Side? My Korean girlfriend and I once went on a quest to find kimchi at a store near her apartment on 72nd and Lexington. The response from every store (Gristedes, D'Ag, etc.) was "Kim-what?"
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The space program has started down a slippery - and stinky - slope.
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the problem will be when the first astronaut from lichtenstein insists on bringing his limburger cheese
ugggh
try living in a tin can with the permeating odor of certain cheeses and millions of dollars will be needed to spent on suicide prevention measures
as it is, i believe astronauts have a problem with fungus and foot odor already
hmmm... on the other hand, maybe that actually prepares them well for limburger cheese, and it will be well tolerated?
just wait until the first indonesian or thai or filipino (a malaysian already went up) in space insists on bringing durian
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I am not a Korean, so I guess I'm just talking out of my ass: If you've been eating a lot of live kimchi for your whole life, maybe it would take a lot of research to invent an acceptable tasting dead version. Real kimchi, or at least what I've seen, is a pretty lively brew. Definitely too exciting for space travel. I imagine this program will actually match some of the hype as far as promoting commercial kimchi. I suspect if they only counted irradiation-based processes the research cost would have been far less.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
In my mixed=heritage family, whenever we serve kimchi, everyone in the house eats if for defensive/non-offensive reasons. If everyone has a mouth full, the odor is no problem.
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Can we make it bigger next time?
Wait? Kimchi not Katamari? Aww. I thought they finally put a PS2 in the space station...
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Actually, as an astronomy grad student I get paid more than biology grad students at my school. Even the ones with some external funding (i.e. NSERC) which I don't have. I doubt that physics and astronomy graduate students are the highest paid either.
what's that now?
Anyone remember the MASH episode where Burns thought he spotted Koreans carrying bombs into the camp, and they turned out to be pots of kimchi?
God only knows what the equivalent reaction would be today if Homeland Security spazzed out over the same thing. And now in space!
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Interesting, even impressive, but call me when they get surstromming into orbit.
You really do sound like a dumbshit.
My wife is Korean, and she can't stand to be away from Korean food. We live in the U.S., but have a couple of Korean marts around and so she generally eats Korean food about 80% of the time at home. When we go camping, she takes Korean food. When we go on vacation, she can maybe go 4 days without, but by the 5th day, we have to find a Korean restaurant. Paris wasn't so bad, as there were a few Korean restaurants to choose from. There was only one on Kauai, though.
I used to like most kinds of Korean food, but after having so much of it for so many years, I've gotten burned out on it, and now the only things I like are the pul-go-gi and the gal-bi. Imagine the l as sounding more like a single syllable lr, and the g sounding both like a g and a k, and that should give you an idea how it sounds.
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Reminds me of my first day in Grad school. Our instructor asked everyone why they wanted to get a MS, most said they are going for PhD, MS is just a stepping stone. He then asked "What are you going to do with a PhD? Get hired by some university, get microscopic raises and then they will hire on new people at a higher pay rate than you make."
Some non-cabbage based kimchi is okay but we should never let the Swedes send up Surströmming. That stuff is like a biological weapon.
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Space will never be the same.
Add Jack Daniels, that way you render two drinks of questionable palate into a passable embrocation. It's off topic, I know, but hey this is slashdot and they are brands on par with Microsoft.
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I wonder why no-one is talking about the wonderful thorramatur mentioned in the summary (some examples on the wiki page). Sour lumps of fat, ram's balls, urinated sharks, the list is lovely. Fortunately we only have to eat this once a year, with large amounts of brennivín, which is not drinkable unless consumed with the otherwise unedible food specimens spoken of before.
I guess every country has its own favourite unedible food.
Most people here seem to think that the millions of dollars and years of research were for testing whether or not the kimchi could be taken into space. The researchers did not care about sending the kimchi up; they were developing a new ventilation system so that the fellow astronauts could make it back down alive.
Err... Read the title of his post. He's not talking about Kimchi. I'm guessing that he's talking about Thorramtur since the word he used shared a lot of the same letters, only the first character didn't show up because it's a thorn and not a "th".
And if you'll read the Wikipedia article about it, you'll see what he's talking about. I think I just about lost my appetite for lunch after reading that. Good Lord, what people used to eat when they were poor and had to make use of the whole animal! I mean, it's like reading something out of a Jack Vance book -- and not the gourmet scenes, but the ones where Cudgel has to "make do" with what he can get.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
and Jafiwam for injecting some sense into the thread.
I eat gimchi, and I like it, a LOT. I used to like the sweetened version, but after being unable to find it in restaurants in SF/Bay Area (outside of Ran Du, in Stockton, CA, run by a Chinese woman who grew up in Korea), I had to accept the more sour/pungent variety. Now, when I eat my Shin Ramyun, I sometimes put in several spoonsful of gimchi and the spicy tofu or spicy soybean and an egg.
I don't often burp or fart from eating gimchi. If the astronauts eat enough of it prior to blastoff (no pun intended) their systems might acclimate to mitigate expulsion of gas. Probably some antacid, or Mountain Tea (Greek OR Chinese varieties) might soothe the acidic effects and affects.
I suspect many of the "funny" comments here come from those who hardly eat or never tried gimchi. In a pinch, or on a regular diet, gimchi is a massive helluva lot better and more nutritious than most of the chemically treated garbage in our US diet. I'll stake my health on that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi
I wonder if natto has been to space yet, but:
http://www.japanfile.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=462
"The natto bean is a nutritional dynamo. For every 100 grams consumed, you are filling your body with 16.5 g of protein, 10.0 g of fats, 9.8 g of sugar, 2.3 g of fiber, and 1.9 g of ash for a total of 2,000 kilocalories. To say nothing of the host of vitamins and minerals you are getting: 0.07 milligrams of B1, 0.56 mg of B2, 1.1 mg of niacin, 90 mg of calcium, 190 mg of phosphorous, 3.3 mg of iron, 2 mg of sodium, 660 mg of potassium, and absolutely no cholesterol. There is more. Natto contains all eight of the necessary amino acids not produced by the human body as well as essential fatty acids like linoleic acid and enzymes that aid digestion. All of this has earned natto the respectful moniker of hatake no niku (field meat)."
More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natto
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natto
A Japanese friend introduced me to natto, and he sorta smugly (or I mistook his voice or facial expression) suggested that I won't be able to eat it. I asked if it were meat or some vegetable. He again stated he thought I would not be able to eat it. So, he nuked it, and I ate it with the mustard and soy sauce, and he went "Hmmph", smiled, and was pleased.
However, I would not recommend fry-heating natto on a domed/covered skillet -- unless you don't mind the "aroma" nearly-instantly permeating EVERY garment or cloth in your home or apartment. Well, if you want to offend or seek revenge, then steam/fry or steam-nuke a few small servings. You'll wake up your neighbors in the building...
Gimchi AND natto should should be fast-tracked not only for spacefarer consumption, but also for consumption in more restaurants.
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I remeber going to a orientation lecture when I was going to be on a short tour in Korea. The Marine Sergent giving the lecture made a quite eloquent point for Kimchee:
"There are no middle of the road Kimchee eaters. You either love it, or think it is lethal..."
He's right!
Worse than kissing a smoker.
http://www.japanfile.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=462
"While NASA was content with the chicken and the egg, the Soviets chose natto for their research. In 1987, Alexander Serebrov, the Soviet Union's most experienced cosmonaut, took dried natto with him on a Soyuz mission. There he found that natto's 80-90% rate of soybean protein absorption made it an ideal candidate for future travel in space."
Also, see Slashfood (no, sorry slashers, it's not related to Slashodot... FORTUNATELY...):
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/06/29/japanese-space-agency-creates-astronaut-meals/
Hopefully, "fast food" won't be allowed to be delivered to space:
http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/25/mcdonalds-does-delivery-in-china/
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All this time I thought "kimchi" was a euphemism for "shit".
You know the saying, "We're in deep kimchi now..."
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...a few hours afterward is immeasurably worse. The only thing I can even conceive of that might even be in the ballpark would have been dead in a swamp for at least a week and send hyenas away gagging.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
At least it's not Surströmming -- the entire space station would be rendered permanently uninhabitable merely by opening one can of the stuff.
Ian Ameline
Good God, they'll never get the smell out of the draperies now. Have any of you actually ever SMELLED kimchee? First-generation American-born sons and daughters beg their mothers not to serve the stuff to their non-Korean friends.
Science may never get Thorramatur in orbit.
Sign me up for that volunteer astronaut program. I thought scottish food was nasty, but Iceland wins hands-down.
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I can't imagine the fun of Kimchi in a smaller space from which you can't step out for a breath of fresh air. It makes hermetically-sealed tupperware mission-critical.
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I sure hope those Soyuz lifeboats are in good working order
It's Linux, damnit! Pay no attention to renaming attempts by self-aggrandizing blowhards.
I have to say I really enjoy the taste of kimchi. I do however think about what I'm doing later that day, and monitor my consumption accordingly. If you eat too much the odor seeps out of your pores. The first time I returned from Japan my sister commented on how bad I smelled. I quickly figured out it was from the food there. It's understandable how the strong smell turns some people off.
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"Full Professors w/o fellowships, etc: $60-150k/year" Ok, well that is going to cost anywhere from $120-300k/year as a rough ball park estimate. I think the typical "ballpark" estimate for employee cost is usually twice their salary. I could imagine it would be more for a Scientist than a typical office employee, due equipment costs not to mention insurance/liability etc.
1. Scientists can also work in the private industry which likely pays much better.
2. Full professors can also do consulting on the side, see point 1 about pay.
A more typical breakdown would be:
Salary $120K/yr for a senior engineer/scientist
*1.5 (for benefits, payroll taxes etc)
= $180K/yr
+ $50K/yr for facility (office rent, lights,utility,phone, lab space, etc.)
= $230K/yr
+ $50K/yr for test equipment, computers & support, etc.
= $280K/yr
*1.2 (for 20% management overhead.. the entire tree above the leaf node..)
= 336K/yr
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And what did the first Japanese to travel on a Russian space capsule bring?
Soyuz sauce.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Come on, guys. This is not government money, it's MARKETING money from a large Kimchi manufacturer, who will undoubtedly reap hundreds of millions off of their "Space Kimchi" marketing ploy. If something doesn't make sense, follow the money. It doesn't make sense to spend space research money on kimchi, so you need to look deeper. This is a corporate interest, people. Same with the "Coca-cola" in space stuff.
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The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
I find that Kimchi actually improves my digestion. It's just fermented cabbage with some seasoning. It's not much different from Sauerkraut or lactic pickles. All of these fermented items have pretty pungent aroma, but a pretty big fan base. :)
Now things like natto and stinky tofu, those are way over the top. Kimchi, if thought as a typical condiment fits in with the traditions of westerns. To consume a salt and sour "side" with a meal. like pickles or olives.
I find that a little bit of kimchi on the side when having something heavy like baby back ribs tends to only enhance the flavor of the pork and helps cut through the richness.
and the active fermentation of kimchi (especially homemade) is likely to give people gas way worse than a bean burrito, but so will yogurt.
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We spend 60 million to blow up a measly tank of hydrazine in orbit, then turn around and launch kimchi into space.
Let's hope the ISS doesn't de-orbit anytime soon.
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Errrr, here at the University of Texas at Austin PhD candidates in biomedical engineering are guaranteed $30k/year with more possible via fellowships. It is not uncommon to reach $40-50k/year.
Assistant profs in engineering make around $100k/year. Our department chair owns a ranch where he keeps his bulldozer, firetruck, and related toys.
I'm not disagreeing that the vast majority of professors are not well paid, but the numbers you cite sound more like what I'd expect from a liberal arts college, not a respected engineering department. They certainly do not jive with my experience.
Well, my numbers come from NYU School of Medicine, where PhD candidates make $27'000 (raised from $25000 a few months ago)... but getting salaried fellowships is pretty hard for a candidate.
I certainly don't think that it qualifies as a "liberal arts college".
the spin-off technologies make our lives so much better
I was in Korea (Suwon) a few months ago, and saw the best spin-off technology you can imagine. Six of us went to a bar, and the table in the booth had round, metal-lined holes, about 8 cm in diameter. When the waitress came over to take our order, she flipped a switch on the edge of the table. The five Americans had no idea what these were for.
When our first big pitcher of beer came, these metal cup-holders were chilly. We filled our round bottomed glasses from the pitcher, and set them down in these little cold-pits. The beer wasn't that cold in the pitcher, but it got cold fast in those little icy cup-holders. By the second pitcher, the holders were icy cold, with frost around the metal rim. We were on our third pitcher by the time our plate of munchies came, and focused more on food than drink. In the US, beer gets warm in the pitcher and glass while you eat and talk, not not there. Every sip of beer was cold, right down to the last mouthful in the glass.
That's a great technology spin off.
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I'm at one of the top 10 universities for NIH funding and every single PhD student I know (from bio, genetics, epidemiology, biostats, IDM) are making below 25k per year. Obviously their are cost of living differences from city to city, but I'd imagine the amounts you're talking are at the very far end of the spectrum.
I'd suspect natto is called "field meat" because it literally smells like meat that has been left out in a field for several days. It doesn't taste much better, if you can keep yourself from gagging on it. If you brought that on a spaceship most non-Japanese would shove your ass out an airlock. Everyone claims it has health benefits, mostly because there seems to be no other reason why one would feed someone the stuff. But you can get the same from just eating unfermented soybeans, which don't stink and actually taste pretty good.
Trust me, there's not even a valid comparison between kimchi and natto. Uncooked kimchi smells slightly of vinegar, and the inoffensive varieties have the taste and texture of slightly spicy pickles. It won't offend anyone else at the table. Natto (ALL natto) smells like a foot taken out of a 6 week plaster cast, tastes about the same as it smells, and has the texture of chunky snot. Its odor is overwhelming and spreads through the room. You'd have to have a malfunctioning olfactory nerve to eat that stuff. Sorry, man, but I think you're crazy.
I am sorry indeed to say so, but you have appearantly no ideas about how Sauerkraut (sour cabbage) is made.
Most important - it is not cooked initially. It may be cooked with the meal. The cooking is not necessary for it to become Sauerkraut.
Second - it is not a solely german invention. It is also a traditional dish in Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, Estonia, most of the Slavian countries
and most northern european Countries - except maybe the Anglo-Saxon area (they have porridge). Farther north, there is enough Haggis,
so you won`t need any fearful Kraut... But be aware, there is great whiskey to wash down haggis, whereas most continental european spirits just plainly suck.
It was among one of the ways to fight the scurvey during the 18th cty, a illness plaguing seamen travelling the atlantic that eventually lead to
the invention of jelly and jam (of which probably sour orange jam is amongst the stuff the geneve conventions should have forbidden).
Like Kimchi, original Sushi or pickled veggies (pickled cucumbers, mixed pickles) it is anaerobically fermented in a way that allows it to be kept for
months without cooling without loosing either its nutritious value or its edibility.
First the Kraut is cut and sometimes threaded barefoot. Then it is usually salted in excess and put into a stone jar with a linen seal,
a wooden board and a heavy stone on it. In this configuration a lot of "dirtcutting" is necessary, since you have to take off a bit of the top
layer building on the marinating brine (which may start building fungal spores etc if you do not regularly remove the stuff on that layer).
Keeping the temperature below 15 Celsius will work best, sometimes vinegar or spices are added before, during or after the process as a complement.
It is not necessary for the stuff to be sterile, the pH and the anaerobic fermentation will kill off pretty much everything except the "good" bacteria
doing the processing - which will kill itself and all other bacteria off after it used up all the resources it needs...
The amount of salting is a thing of discussion - too much salt and you will have to wash it before eating, lowering nutritional value.
Too few salt and you`ll have to keep the Kraut at a very stable cool temperature. 0,5-2% of the cabbage weight is the usual rule of thumb.
Kind regards, a Kraut eater
They'll undoubtedly be working closely with SC Johnson for product placement for Johnson's GLADE air freshener line. A pocket sized can conspicuously placed in a zero-G utility belt will bring megabuck rain on SC Johnson, like TANG did for General Foods with the "Drink of the Astronauts".
If they use 120VAC for shipboard power, they can feature the GLADE Plug-Ins for solving "Real tough Kimchi odor problems".
I'll bet the makers of those little pine trees hanging off car reaview mirrors could also join in to "Clearing the air in space".
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