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"Blorp" is the notional noise of kimchi or sauerkraut fermenting as the carbon dioxide escapes the airlock. Vigorous fermentation can be described as "the kimchi is really blorping along today". It's almost onomatopoetic, but not quite.

We ferment wine or beer in a different vessel with different airlock, so it does not blorp. We don't have a word for that yet.

The crock we used that birthed this word is this one:

https://www.lehmans.com/product/striped-european-style-ferme...

parent mauvehaus 5 months ago

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