{"id":1569,"date":"2013-06-15T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2013-10-24T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:01:47","slug":"open-air-vs-closed-fermentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Open air vs closed fermentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-5DmkIII-HZ5C2939.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-5DmkIII-HZ5C2939s.jpg\" alt=\"Open air vs closed fermentation\"><\/img><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-5DmkIII-HZ5C2916.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-EOS-5DmkIII-HZ5C2916.jpg\" alt=\"Open air result\"><\/img><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI have been wondering whether kombucha needs to ferment in an open air container.  Even though a cloth towel is covering the vessel, I know very well that dust, dirt, and micro organisms are able to travel through the &#8220;barrier.&#8221; Also, the kombucha is sitting in my guest bathroom.  And, while the bathroom doesn&#8217;t get used, it seems more sanitary if the vessel is hermetically sealed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn one bucket, I oxygenated the liquid, oxygenated the air, sealed up the top, and then placed an airlock in the hole.  In the other bucket, I placed a cheesecloth over the top.  After a couple of weeks, the scobies were dramatically different.  Clearly, the gelatinous mass is a protection barrier to oxygen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wondering whether kombucha needs to ferment in an open air container. Even though a cloth towel is covering the vessel, I know very well that dust, dirt, and micro organisms are able to travel through the &#8220;barrier.&#8221; Also, the kombucha is sitting in my guest bathroom. And, while the bathroom doesn&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kombucha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}