Homemade Tepache vs Store Bought

I’ve recently noticed the appearance of tepache in cans in some local grocery stores, so I grabbed one to pit against my homemade stuff. I’m not sure how much of a fair comparison it will be, since the stuff I made has been sitting in the fridge for a few months, but oh well. I had assumed the stuff from the can would be heavily…

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Happy Birthday, Sourdough, Notebooks, App

Happy 3rd birthday, Crock of Time! While this isn’t the New Years Resolution post, it’s a good point in the year to take stock of how things have been going this year. I lamented about how I had lost my sourdough habit and wouldn’t be able to do the Sourdough Guide I’ve been wanting to do for years, but the folks in the Discord renewed…

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Simple Sourdough Guide in the works

Hello patrons! The first post on my Patreon page might seem a little out-of-place: it’s from 2020, and I didn’t launch my campaign until 2023. I knew I wanted to try to build something without advertising or sponsors, but I wasn’t sure how to do it then. I’m still figuring it out, of course. That first post was about my efforts to develop a sourdough…

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Bring me your sticker ideas!

I am recruiting the help of my collaborator (and wife) Jack Watson to design stickers for the Crock of Time community and fermenters everywhere, but I need your help too! Livestream simulcasting at 4pm EDT on April 1, 2023: Check out these stickers she designed for another incredible community (that also happens to have a Discord) called Frontend Horse, made up of some of the…

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Outtakes: Wagyu Corned Beef

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Founding Supporter Notebook

The first merch I’m working on is a limited edition “Founding Supporter” logbook.  Patreon supporters at the Master level will receive one as part of their subscription (including a signed note from me), and depending on availability they will be sold separately here on crockoftime.com. Whether you’d buy one or not, it would be helpful if you could let me know which one you like…

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Patreon Announcement

After some trepidation, I’ve finally decided to launch a Patreon for Crock of Time: crockoftime.com/patreon I am a web & app developer that happens to really love food and fermentation. This hobby has become much larger than I ever thought it would thanks to this amazing community, but I have also been stretched really thin this past year. I’ve always been hesitant to get money…

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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023

2022 felt like a difficult year just a few days ago, and now 2023 has already topped it. Yesterday, after 14 years, my cat Loki died. It hit me really hard, and I’ve still mostly been immobile over 24 hours later. My wife, though she also lost her pet, has been supporting me, ensuring I eat, helping collect 14 years of photos to remember the…

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Kojicon 2023 Announced

The best virtual conference in fermentation is coming back! Tickets go on sale January 5, 2023 at kojicon.org! Last year there were many excellent sessions, including information sessions as well as workshop-style sessions demonstrating how to make things with koji, and also featured some koji-cousins from China and Korea. You can get the most up-to-date information about the conference at that link and also on…

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Search the Archives

New site feature: search! Well, at least the interface for it is new anyways. Since this is a WordPress site, search has always been available, but I neglected to include an interface for it when I hastily published the site in 2020. And then… well let’s just say I thought I’d be working on the site more often than I was actually able to. Better…

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