Jalapeño Sauerkraut
Jalapeño Sauerkraut
Medium heat that builds instead of burning. Chilli fermented in, not dumped in.
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Order today arrives Sep 30 – Oct 3
Ships Monday & Tuesday · 2–5 days in transit · continental US only
Jalapeño and garlic fermented right in with the cabbage. Fermenting the chile takes the raw edge off the heat and leaves something rounder and fruitier than fresh jalapeño — medium heat, not a dare.
Raw, never heated
Most sauerkraut on a grocery shelf has been pasteurized — heated until nothing is alive in it, so it can sit at room temperature for a year. Ours never sees heat. It is fermented in small batches in glass, shipped cold and kept cold, and it is still fermenting when it reaches you. That is why the lid is vented: live cabbage makes CO₂.
No vinegar. No sugar. No preservatives. Cabbage, salt, time.
What it tastes like
Sour, garlicky, warm rather than burning. The heat builds slowly and stops where it should.
How to use it
Tacos, carnitas, brisket. On nachos in place of pickled jalapeños. In a grilled cheese. Anywhere you would reach for hot sauce but want crunch too.
Ingredients
Cabbage, sea salt, jalapeño pepper, garlic, live cultures.
How it ships
No dry ice, no styrofoam. Live ferments travel safely without refrigeration for days and even weeks — the brine and the live cultures are what keep them stable. We pack every jar in an insulated liner with a cold pack, ship Monday and Tuesday only so nothing sits in a warehouse over the weekend, and your order goes straight into the fridge on arrival. Refrigerated shelf life is about 6 months.
16 oz glass jar. Keep refrigerated. Vegan, gluten free, non-GMO.
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Ingredients: Cabbage, sea salt, jalapeño, garlic.
The jalapeño ferments with the cabbage for the full three weeks. Fermenting a chilli takes the raw edge off the heat and leaves something rounder and slightly fruity behind.
Live cultures: present and active. Never heated.
Net weight: 16 oz (454 g) in a glass jar.
Allergens: none. Made in a facility that also handles mustard seed.
On eggs. This is the one, if you only do one thing with it.
On tacos and in burritos, in place of a salsa.
On a burger instead of jalapeños from a can.
Stirred into sour cream or yoghurt for a dip that takes thirty seconds.
In a grilled cheese, drained first.
We ship Monday and Tuesday only. Nothing sits in a warehouse over a weekend. Orders placed later in the week go out the following Monday.
Packed cold, not frozen. Every box goes out in an insulated liner with a cold pack. No dry ice, no styrofoam — fermented food does not need either.
Your box may arrive warm. That is normal. Cold packs melt. Boxes sit on porches. None of that harms a live ferment: the salt and the acidity are what keep it safe, not the temperature. A jar can spend days out of the fridge and be perfectly fine. Put it in the fridge when it arrives and carry on.
Transit is 2 to 5 days across the continental US. We do not ship to Alaska, Hawaii or outside the United States.
If a jar arrives broken, send us a photo within 48 hours and we replace it. No need to send anything back.
Keep it in the fridge. Always, from the moment it arrives. This is live food, not a shelf-stable pickle.
Unopened: about 6 months. Opened: about a month, and it stays good as long as the cabbage sits under the brine. Push it back down with a clean fork if it rises.
It is still fermenting. That is the point. The jar may hiss when you open it, the brine may look cloudy, and the lid may push up a little. All three mean it is alive and working.
It may leak. Open it over the sink the first time, especially if the box travelled somewhere warm.
The flavour keeps changing. A jar you open in month four is sourer than the same jar in week one. Neither is wrong — pick the one you like and buy accordingly.
How hot is it?
Medium. Warmer than a mild salsa, cooler than a hot sauce. The heat arrives a second after the sourness and fades quickly. If you find jalapeños on a pizza too much, this is not your jar.
Why is it not brighter green?
Because the chilli fermented rather than being pickled in vinegar. Fermentation dulls the colour and deepens the flavour. Bright green usually means vinegar and no live cultures.
Is the cabbage organic?
We are not certified organic, so we do not use the word about our own jars. In the United States "organic" is a regulated claim, and we would rather not say something we cannot show you a certificate for.
What is actually in the jar: cabbage, sea salt, and the vegetables or spices that make the flavor. Nothing else — no vinegar, no sugar, no preservatives, no starter cultures.
Worth knowing: organic and raw are two different things, and they are not the ones people usually mix up. A certified organic jar that sits on a shelf at room temperature has almost always been pasteurized, which means the cultures in it are no longer alive. Ours is never heated, which is why it has to stay cold.
How many probiotics are in a jar?
We do not put a CFU number on the label, and we would be careful with anyone in this category who does. Live culture counts in a raw ferment shift with temperature, time and the jar itself — a number printed at packing is not the number in your fridge three months later. What we can tell you is what it is: raw, unpasteurized, fermented with nothing but cabbage, salt and time, and never heated. Anything more specific belongs to your doctor, not to us.