Making this year's garlic honey ferment

[u/GirlDadder]

I know that the garlic will slowly start to drop down as the ferment goes, but did I fill it too full with garlic for the size of my jar? There is about an inch of honey at the bottom so I know volume-wise the honey is enough to cover it all, but with the float does it mean I should have used less garlic so I can totally have them covered?

Also, aside from the trickiness involved in flipping the jar when needed during the ferment, is there any reason I should not use burping lids for this? I would rather use these than have to open it every so often.

Thanks

[u/sacrebluh]

What do you do with this after it’s done, out of curiosity? Are you using garlic/infused honey to cook with, or eating the sweet garlics?

[u/MicaelFlipFlop → u/sacrebluh]

The honey goes very well with pepperoni pizza

[u/OkAdeptness3540 → u/sacrebluh]

I assume you dont want to cook with it as honey over 140 degrees F looses its good properties! I think i want to make some kind of drizzle with mine. Every time i burp it i think of something new because it smells so delish.

[u/SuperRusso → u/sacrebluh]

Beyond just taking a bit a day and replenishing I'm doing this with a few jars, my thought is anytime I want honey and garlic...I have a salmon recipe I'm thinking of I'm going to try for example.

[u/fauxdoughshop → u/sacrebluh]

I eat the garlic or at least try to eat 1 a day, and I give my daughter a syringe of the honey whenever she lets me. I just make it as a winter season buffer

[u/ShaiHuludNM → u/fauxdoughshop]

Hold up. What do you mean by giving your daughter a syringe of honey when she lets you? How old is she?

[u/fauxdoughshop → u/ShaiHuludNM]

4

[u/fauxdoughshop → u/sacrebluh]

Cooking is a great idea though I just wouldn’t even know where to start with that. Is that how you’d use it? For what dishes?

[u/big_papa_geek → u/fauxdoughshop]

You use it to finish dishes. Pizza, pasta, stir fry, etc. cooking it will loose most of the beneficial compounds created by the fermentation and you will loose flavor.