freitagsküche Workshop • Allein machen sie dich ein – Eine kollektive Fermentationsaktion

In the organizer's words:

Vegetables, salt, time - and a little trust in processes that cannot be completely controlled. That's all you need.
In this fermentation workshop, you can experience pickling, fermenting and preserving food. Together with up to 20 participants, a temporary production space is created in which knowledge is shared, tried out and further developed.

Using simple ingredients, various fermentation techniques are taught step by step - from classic brines and spontaneous fermentation processes to simple pickling methods. It's not just about recipes, but about a fundamental understanding of microorganisms, time and transformation.
The focus is on the process: cutting, mixing and tasting together, observing changes and sharing experiences. Fermentation thus becomes a social practice between everyday knowledge and experimental cuisine.

Each participant makes their own batch and takes several jars home with them. It's not just the vegetables that continue to work there. No previous knowledge is required. If possible, please bring your own preserving jars. At the end there will be a joint tasting - bread, butter and pickles included.

The workshop takes place as part of freitagsküche. Perhaps the best festival kitchen in Europe cooks and curates culinary art as a social event: the artists' collective not only provides diverse and tasty food at the festival, but also creates a social space in which artistic practice and everyday culture overlap with the workshop offer.

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