Today at the Wok Shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, I found an excellent
source for beautiful and inexpensive clear glass fermemting jars.
The design is somewhat like the excellent, heavy and expensive ceramic crocks
with a water moat made by Harsch.
The elegant advantage of these new jars and the Harsch crock is the water moat,
which lets the natural gasses escape thru the water filled moat, avoiding daily maintinence
and development of white kam skum which is harmless but unattractive.
With the ones available at the Wok Shop, we will also be able to observe how
things are developing visually thru the clear glass, unlike the Harsch, which
is opaque ceramic.
I don't know what the role of light is upon fermentation. When making a batch in the Harsch crock,
I keep it out of the sun in a cool place outside on the deck.

Tane Chan of the Wok Shop had been searching for years for a source of fermenting jars
with a moat to sell in her shop and just found these made in a remote villiage in Shanhai.
She is as ecstatic to have finally found these beautiful jars to sell as I am about experimenting
with fermenting in a smaller size container than the huge Harsch crock I happily use.

The 2 sizes are:
large, 132oz, @11.5" tall X 7.5" diameter for 19.99 (@1 gallon size)
small, 84oz, 9.5" X 6.5"diameter for 14.95
These glass jars have no weights (so excellent with the Harsch) so I used a plastic bag
filled with water to weigh down the new batch of sauerkraut I made in it tonight.
The opening at the mouth of the jar is @4" wide.

The Wok Shop is a retail vendor of functual wonders and the cool and
unusual for your kitchen. The prices are quite reasonable for everything there.
They also ship.

www.wokshop.com
718 Grant Ave, San Francisca, CA 94108
415-989-3797 or 888-780-7171
info@wokshop.com