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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 kimch
by mauvehaus 5mo ago
"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-fermenting-crock-3-gallon/ https://www.lehmans.com/product/striped-european-style-ferme...
- thaumasiotes 5mo ago> "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". I find it difficult to believe that a noise assigned to the preparation of kimchi would be so flagrantly incompatible with the Korean language.
- mauvehaus 5mo agoI'm a basically monolingual white guy from the Midwest USA, transplanted to Vermont. I discovered kimchi in a restaurant and learned to make it from the internet[0]. I'm sure people who come by their kimchi-making through their family or culture natively probably have words that work better for them that I would stumble over and mangle is truly epic fashion :-) [0] https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tongbaechu-kimchi https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tongbaechu-kimchi
- keithasaurus 5mo agoIt's called blorp because it's the name of a stegosaurus my kids and I made up.