Kimchi is just sauerkraut with chilli?

[purplepoppy]

On Friday, I saw a tub of kimchi on a shopping trip and liking trying new stuff, thought I'd give it ago. After all thousands of Koreans can't be wrong.

Oh dear, I was so disappointed. To me it was just cheap sauerkraut with a pinch of chilli tossed in. I could replicate it at the fraction of the cost.

So am I right as usual? Is the Korean favourite just spiced up sauerkraut?

[FreyaRed]

It's sauerkraut with bell pepper.
Put a ham hock in and cook it slowly 5 hours and you will get bavarian Schweinshaxe

[lilBigPotato]

I mean, technically yes, both are fermented cabbages. But it's different type of cabbage, different ingredients and a different process.

It's kind saying kfc chicken tenders are the same as Korean fried chicken wings. Technically both fried chicken but still feels very different.

Personally I much prefer kimchi over sauerkraut. The latter tastes quite boring in my opinion.

[ohsheeT]

So now what are you going to try to make it and if so please let me know your ingredients because I would like to try to make that sauerkraut is one of the best things in the world for you and I love chili so if you make it please let us know

[NathanDavis]

this is the most British take ever...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-RfHC91Ewc

[MrChinaski]

LMAO. Little Britain at its finest.

[AI Opinion]

You tasted something called kimchi, but not really kimchi 😊

Proper Korean kimchi uses napa cabbage, salt curing, Korean chili flakes (gochugaru), garlic, ginger, fish sauce or salted shrimp, sometimes rice paste, and it ferments differently from European sauerkraut.

Sauerkraut is simply cabbage and salt, lactic-fermented, usually without aromatics.

You probably got a simplified, Western-style version, not the deep, funky, complex original.

[Lesbologist]

Is kraut fermented? I'm not familure enough to say if it is or not, but that would be my guess of anywere you might be wrong.

I just know I'm not putting kimchi on my hot dog.

[jennifer_bloom]

That does not sound like kimchi, that sounds like pickled mustard or pickled radish. Kimchi is supposed to have a garlicky and sweet flavour.

[MrChinaski]

Errr... given kimchi is about a millenium older, if that's the comparison you want to draw then sauerkraut is dulled down kimchi.

[Nikki1989]

That wasn't real kimchi by the sounds of it.

[Shiprex]

I don't think it is. There's more to it than just pickled cabbage

[CaptainSmartass]

I thought Kimchi was that fat git in North Korea, and Sauerkraut was an angry German...

Simples...

[FenixG45]

I thought the kimchi I had was good, but to be honest I rarely eat it! Give it another chance! Try a different one!

[QuietRunner]

since it is napa cabbage and not cabbage, they are not the same.

Both are superfoods of the world. Just eat whatever tastes good.

[Xawyx-2]

Hmm, no, Kimchi is actually fermented.

[jamesgoldman]

Both fermented cabbage, both delicious

[Jen_oic]

@purplepoppy

it makes sense to me 💕

[Jen_oic]

@purplepoppy
I like sauerkraut and onions 🧅

[Anonymous]

Never had it. Looks gross.

[Likes2drive]

Heard of it but never tried it

[Agape93]

Pretty much yeah

[PinkSchmetterling]

Whoa. That’s deep