Glass Pickle Altar
Many friends like that kind of glass pickle altar because it is beautiful and also easy to observe. However, the production of kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles and other pickles are required to avoid the light, if the light is strong will make the food spoiled or tasteless and produce bacteria, which will lead to the failure of the production.
Of course, glass kimchi altar is not absolutely can not be used, it is suitable for "making the kind of time is very short diving kimchi", put in the refrigerator to avoid the light pickling on the line. If you need to pickle for a long time, it's better to choose earthenware and ceramic jars.
Earthenware kimchi altar
Earthenware kimchi altar to do kimchi is also very good, but because of the characteristics of the earthenware itself, the altar body density is small, easy to seepage, seepage salt phenomenon. Resulting in the failure of making kimchi
Kimchi altar sealing
First raise the altar against the light to see if there is no light penetration inside the altar with a bright eye, there is no way to seal the altar with a bright eye for sure.
Put your ear close to the mouth of the altar and listen carefully, you can hear the "buzzing" sound the louder the sealing performance is the better, but this method of listening to the sound requires a certain amount of experience.
Take two pieces of paper and throw it to the altar, and then immediately cover the altar cover, and then pour full of water in the altar edge, if the altar edge of the water is quickly sucked into the altar, that is, it is a very good sealing performance altar.
Ceramic kimchi altar benefits
Ceramic kimchi altar fired by 1380 degrees, does not contain lead, cadmium and other precious metals, altar wall is thicker, glazed on both sides, impervious to light, the temperature is also a very good insulation effect, suitable for long-term kimchi. And beautiful and generous.
Now you should understand which material is good for kimchi altar, it is the earthenware and ceramic altar with altar rim and good sealing performance, and it is easy to succeed in making kimchi with such an altar.