Are there any brands of kimchi you guys think are the best?
SwimmingCoyote
That’s a pickled cabbage but not a kimchi.
Edit: I took a look at their website and instagram. The company is based in Plattsburgh, NY and their instagram looks exactly as I suspected (lots of crunchy looking white people with no apparent connection to Korean culture). I know that the term cultural appropriation gets thrown around a lot but I think it applies here. Pickling cabbage isn’t just a Korean thing. The issue is labeling something kimchi, which is a Korean food, but without anything that makes it a kimchi versus a general pickled vegetable. If they had at least used gochugaru, I would be more understanding even with the tumeric but they used cayenne.
diskowmoskow
I would try it
MissBananaBiker
This is their [website](https://www.smalltowncultures.com/) — they’re located in Plattsburgh NY and appear to be focused on gut health. Turmeric is naturally anti-inflammatory. But their recipe doesn’t contain gochugaru, fish sauce or shrimp paste so this is more like a vegetarian baek kimchi than baechu kimchi.
PlayingVN
Unpopular opinion but there’s like 100+ different kinds of kimchi. If it’s really uncooked like the packaging says. Sure it’s kimchi
Elainerian
Oh I’ve seen similar things in store, not kimchi but still really good
Sewer-rat-sweetheart
Feels like a crime.
StellaEtoile1
It says it’s probiotic but is it cooked? Wouldn’t the vegetables have to be raw to ferment? Does it have Cayenne instead of gochugaru? So confusing!
I’m really interested. I get that kimchi can be a lot of different things but this one seems like a stretch.
Bitter_Speed7243
TURMERIC?
SeaDry1531
Canned kimchi is the blow up doll of kimchis
MissMabeliita
Yes, it has nothing that even remotely resembles kimchi… they could’ve call it anything else
shinchunje
There’s a turmeric and ginger ‘kimchi’ here in England. I’ll never know what it tastes like.
HuanXiaoyi
I feel like this shouldn’t be called kimchi, it’s missing a bunch of necessary ingredients to make a good kimchi
SophiePuffs
Ugh I hate this. Just call it pickled turmeric cabbage. They’re putting the word kimchi on it because they know it’s a hype word right now and they’re looking for sales.
IndigoBlueSky9
I’m all for trying new things. With that said, there are certain cultural dishes, IMHO, that should be left alone. As a lover of Korean food, Kimchi is one of those dishes. I prefer to purchase my Kimchi from my local H-Mart. I realize some folks don’t have access to H-Mart. A YouTube or Google search can help with finding authentic brands that ship.
rorqualmaru
Where’s the seafood? My main problem with all these “kimchis” on the market is they leave out the umami that comes from the shrimp/oyster/anchovy/aekjeot. Makes for a bland product.
RaineeeshaX
Where did you buy it
ALittleBitOffBoop
I don’t know what you would call it but I think it might taste pretty good as slaw in a roast chicken sandwich or somesuch
wingelefoot
kimchi is a pretty loose word in korea. meh.
User_McAwesomeuser
Does kimchi need to be gatekept? There are more than 200 varieties of kimchi, most of which I have never tasted. Who cares if they use turmeric? Did they ferment it? With some kind of seasoning?
Can you imagine Italians saying that Koreans misappropriated pizza? or Americans?
reeefur
Abomination 😐
mkim520
Sauerkraut
EarlyInside45
It looks kind of gross, but who cares? Korean corn dogs are not made with hot dogs (usually) nor are they battered with corn meal.
StarmanEclipse
Gross. And I thought that the worst thing white people could do to kimchi was to take the fish out 🤣
ChowFetti
That white people “kimchi”
LaChingon
There isn’t regulation on what you can label kimchi?
FoolishAnomaly
But kimchi is fermentation not pickling 😭
Traditional-Fruit585
Did you get the benefit of turmeric, the easier way is get some real kimchee, take your turmeric, capsule or pill, and then have some real kimchi afterwards. Done and done.
QueenSketti
RREEEEEEEE
Icy_Enthusiasm_2707
The color reminds me of something common in Taiwan called 黄金泡菜 （golden pickles). It’s also made of cabbage, but the yellow color is achieved by adding pumpkin or carrots
jackjackj8ck
CAYENNE
Lolllll
Ineverpayretail2
Believe it not, straight to jail.
liquorkisses
Yes. Yes it is.
BrownHoney114
Yes
Randohcalrissian
A lot of hippie krout on the shelves here in the us.i met the owners of one and asked why the didn’t use any fish products in theirs and they literally walked away 🤷♂️im thinking they need that vegan tag.
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The kimchi looks like it’s been cooked. And turmeric? That’s a first
I am looking at the ingredients and that isn’t kimchi, bro.
https://preview.redd.it/oacvtyq8llkf1.png?width=1560&format=png&auto=webp&s=0dd419bce112ffa117ca00ba97374a5e02156e9e
home made kimchi only in my household
Are there any brands of kimchi you guys think are the best?
That’s a pickled cabbage but not a kimchi.
Edit: I took a look at their website and instagram. The company is based in Plattsburgh, NY and their instagram looks exactly as I suspected (lots of crunchy looking white people with no apparent connection to Korean culture). I know that the term cultural appropriation gets thrown around a lot but I think it applies here. Pickling cabbage isn’t just a Korean thing. The issue is labeling something kimchi, which is a Korean food, but without anything that makes it a kimchi versus a general pickled vegetable. If they had at least used gochugaru, I would be more understanding even with the tumeric but they used cayenne.
I would try it
This is their [website](https://www.smalltowncultures.com/) — they’re located in Plattsburgh NY and appear to be focused on gut health. Turmeric is naturally anti-inflammatory. But their recipe doesn’t contain gochugaru, fish sauce or shrimp paste so this is more like a vegetarian baek kimchi than baechu kimchi.
Unpopular opinion but there’s like 100+ different kinds of kimchi. If it’s really uncooked like the packaging says. Sure it’s kimchi
Oh I’ve seen similar things in store, not kimchi but still really good
Feels like a crime.
It says it’s probiotic but is it cooked? Wouldn’t the vegetables have to be raw to ferment? Does it have Cayenne instead of gochugaru? So confusing!
I’m really interested. I get that kimchi can be a lot of different things but this one seems like a stretch.
TURMERIC?
Canned kimchi is the blow up doll of kimchis
Yes, it has nothing that even remotely resembles kimchi… they could’ve call it anything else
There’s a turmeric and ginger ‘kimchi’ here in England. I’ll never know what it tastes like.
I feel like this shouldn’t be called kimchi, it’s missing a bunch of necessary ingredients to make a good kimchi
Ugh I hate this. Just call it pickled turmeric cabbage. They’re putting the word kimchi on it because they know it’s a hype word right now and they’re looking for sales.
I’m all for trying new things. With that said, there are certain cultural dishes, IMHO, that should be left alone. As a lover of Korean food, Kimchi is one of those dishes. I prefer to purchase my Kimchi from my local H-Mart. I realize some folks don’t have access to H-Mart. A YouTube or Google search can help with finding authentic brands that ship.
Where’s the seafood? My main problem with all these “kimchis” on the market is they leave out the umami that comes from the shrimp/oyster/anchovy/aekjeot. Makes for a bland product.
Where did you buy it
I don’t know what you would call it but I think it might taste pretty good as slaw in a roast chicken sandwich or somesuch
kimchi is a pretty loose word in korea. meh.
Does kimchi need to be gatekept? There are more than 200 varieties of kimchi, most of which I have never tasted. Who cares if they use turmeric? Did they ferment it? With some kind of seasoning?
Can you imagine Italians saying that Koreans misappropriated pizza? or Americans?
Abomination 😐
Sauerkraut
It looks kind of gross, but who cares? Korean corn dogs are not made with hot dogs (usually) nor are they battered with corn meal.
Gross. And I thought that the worst thing white people could do to kimchi was to take the fish out 🤣
That white people “kimchi”
There isn’t regulation on what you can label kimchi?
But kimchi is fermentation not pickling 😭
Did you get the benefit of turmeric, the easier way is get some real kimchee, take your turmeric, capsule or pill, and then have some real kimchi afterwards. Done and done.
RREEEEEEEE
The color reminds me of something common in Taiwan called 黄金泡菜 （golden pickles). It’s also made of cabbage, but the yellow color is achieved by adding pumpkin or carrots
CAYENNE
Lolllll
Believe it not, straight to jail.
Yes. Yes it is.
Yes
A lot of hippie krout on the shelves here in the us.i met the owners of one and asked why the didn’t use any fish products in theirs and they literally walked away 🤷♂️im thinking they need that vegan tag.
Major major crime.
aaaaaa
Yes