FERMENTATION POP-UP

Kraut-chi

Did you know sauerkraut is German for Korean kimchi 김치? 

Make colorful, fizzy kraut-chi to take home while exploring the magic of foods with more life. Swap fermentation stories. Reflect on your flavors of home. Science. Culture. Transformation in a jar. 

Inspired by Sandor Katz and The Tiny Wild.
For Kids, Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.

Sensory Confidence

Taste. Smell. Feel. Chop. Chopper’s choice. Massage vegetables with salt. Watch them soften and release their juices. Discover how kimchi and sauerkraut make crunchy vegetables easy and delicious in everyday meals and snacks.

Sandor’s Kraut-chi Recipe 

We use the German sauerkraut method, then add kimchi dazzle. Onion, Garlic. Ginger. Gochugaru. Yondu. Umami magic makes kraut-chi extra tasty.

Cultural Foodways

By remixing kimchi and sauerkraut traditions, kraut-chi opens conversation about migration, adaptation, and how food travels across cultures while retaining flavor, meaning, and care.

Fermentation Stories

Fermentation is a bridge that connects people and plants, through the tiny wild microbes that transform raw vegetables into living foods. It lets us taste how change happens over time. 

Take Home

A jar of living, hand-made kraut-chi
One more joyful way to eat vegetables
Deeper connections to food, culture, and one another