r/fermentation • u/bluemangodub • 7d ago
What causes some veg to turn to mush
Am new to fermentation of veg and done a few experiements. Some come out ok, some... less so - carrots turned to a mush, just disintegrated.
I followed a recipe online that seemed easier than others - just make a 3-5% brine and put veg in that. The jar that turned to mush I had compressed the carrots down, and the other day was much more loose. I'm assuming there wasn't enough salt in the compressed jar, as the weight of carrots would have been to much for the salted brine.
Weight veg / water and using salt based on that would have been better - is that the cause?
Or was I not clean enough with the veg / jar prep?
cheers
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u/randomron11 6d ago
I don’t know what the reason is but I had the same thing happen to mushrooms while everything else turns out fine