{"id":676,"date":"2014-10-10T17:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T00:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T00:44:57","slug":"lactic-acid-fermentation-bacteria-under-the-scope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Lactic Acid Fermentation Bacteria: Under the Scope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-677\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kraut-Culture-Fast-Small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Kraut-Culture-Fast-Small.gif\" alt=\"The little guys chowing down on my cabbage to make sauerkraut\" width=\"500\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little guys chowing down on my cabbage to make sauerkraut. I made this GIF from microscope images of my fermentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, I got a chance to peek at the bacteria in my sauerkraut and sauerprouts jars! Just as I had expected, the kraut juice had a MUCH higher cell density than the sprouts. The sprout juice was like a desolate wasteland. I guess that&#8217;s the problem with putting whole sprouts in without chopping them&#8230; not enough sugars from the vegetables escape into the juice to feed the microbes. Looks like it might mostly be <i>Lactobacillus bulgaricus<\/i> and <i>Leuconostoc mesenteroides<\/i> in there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I got a chance to peek at the bacteria in my sauerkraut and sauerprouts jars! Just as I had expected, the kraut juice had a MUCH higher cell density than the sprouts. The sprout juice was like a desolate wasteland. I guess that&#8217;s the problem with putting whole sprouts in without chopping them&#8230; not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lactic Acid Fermentation Bacteria: Under the Scope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,227,62,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-food","category-microbiology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}