Fermentation Kits, Pickling Supplies, Fermentation Weights, and Airlock Lids for Mason Jar Preserving.
Here's the best-kept secret in food preservation: fermenting is cheaper, faster to start, and more forgiving than canning, and it needs almost nothing you don't already own. Salt, a jar, and a little patience turn cabbage into sauerkraut and cucumbers into real deli pickles.
This collection has the small, clever tools that make it foolproof: the weights that keep your veggies safely under the brine and the airlocks that let jars breathe without babysitting. Most of it fits the wide-mouth mason jars you probably already have.
You'll never be in a pickle with these.
- EASIEST WAY TO START - the Complete Wide Mouth Fermentation Kit by Masontops turns any wide-mouth mason jar into a fermenter: weights, airlock lids, and the tools, all in one box.
- New to this? Quick lesson: fermentation just needs salt and time (the vegetable's own juices do the pickling), while classic pickling adds a vinegar brine. Both keep your harvest for months, no canning required.
- KEEP IT UNDER THE BRINE - veggies that float above the liquid spoil. Pickle Pebbles weigh your kraut and kimchi down where the good bacteria do their thing.
- Hate burping jars every day? Pickle Pipes are one-way airlocks that let fermentation gas escape without letting contaminants in. Set it and (almost) forget it.
- Every ferment needs a vessel - the American-made Superb Pint and Quart Mason Jars are the reusable workhorses.
- (The little joys.) Pack it tight with the Pickle Packer to force out air pockets, then fish out that last stubborn spear with the Pickle Picker so you always get first pick(le).
Fermenting is the gateway drug of home preserving (we'd know).
Kooi Housewares is a family-run store in Muskegon, Michigan, and we love pointing nervous first-timers toward fermentation, because it's the cheapest, most forgiving way to put food up. No pressure canner, no big investment, just salt and a jar. Insider tip: start with a single batch of sauerkraut before you buy a crock's worth of gear. If it grabs you, then scale up. Questions about weights, brine, or which kit to grab? Email us at support@kooihousewares.com and a real person will help you get bubbling.