Masontops Pickle Pipe - One-Piece Silicone Waterless Fermentation Airlock Lids for Mason Jar Fermentation - Wide Mouth - 4 Pack

I had never tried fermenting anything but I wanted to make Kimchi. I bought these and some mason jars and Googled some instructions and recipes. These things make it so simple that now I’m fermenting everything, including blackberries. I kept hearing about exploding jars and mould - nothing! They take care of themselves. I just filled them, stuck a shot glass in to press everything down, and left them for a week. I bought the smaller size but I will be buying more of both sizes. Really great product and really easy to clean.

I've used most fermenting gadgets and I have to say these are the simplest and most foolproof I've come across, especially if you're new to fermenting and nervous about moulds and other nasty surprises. They're far easier to manage than airlocks or remembering to burp sealed containers. You really can just put them in place and leave them to get on with it. The handy thing is that the regular size Pickle Pipes also fit the standard Kilner preserve jars, which are easy to find anywhere. I didn't have any suitable weights to hand, so I cut discs out of a food-grade silicone sheet to sit on top of the vegetables and keep them submerged. Like all good designs, Pickle Pipes are so simple that you wonder why nobody thought of it before. They might seem expensive initially, but they'll last for years, and you'll get consistent results.

Does exactly what is needed for all my small fermentations. I can ferment multiple items and easy to use and no topping up with water. Just leave it alone. Arrived quickly and well packed. Fits the standard jars. Brilliant stuff and at a reasonable price.

These are great little things, so much neater than water airlocks and saves having to burp lids and risk air entering. Only problem I've encountered is after initial fermentation when a partial vacuum sometimes forms. A few times I've had these sucked in to the extent that one side drops down below the rim so air does enter but nothing spoilt so far and I now switch to plastic lids within the month, for storage. I do have similar thicker ones that don't seem to get this problem - so far!

I don't suppose there's much room for error with these - they work exactly as I expected. I'm using them with Kilner jars and lid rings for which they are perfect. The one slight downside is if like me you refuse to buy purpose made weights (which aren't particularly weighty) you might use something that physically pressed your ferment down into its fluid. If you have a solid lid that's fine, but you don't really want upward pressure against the silicone pickle pipe. Still, for small batch ferments they are my favourite option. Especially as once you're done fermenting your batch just swap out the pickle pipe for your normal lid for storage. The concept is so very simple you really can't go wrong. I love my solid one way valve lids, but if overnight the fluid level suddenly rises I've once had kimchi get stuck in the valve preventing pressure release - could have had an exploding jar! With these worst case scenario is your ferment could leak out the top.

These work great and makes fermentation much easier - no need to worry about burping your jars or anything like that. The fact that they're for wide mason jars is actually a 'hidden bonus' - they are much easier to fill and work with than the narrower Kilner jars.

The product looks OK, but I had to return it because the wide mouth pickle pipe is actually smaller then the regular mouth pickle pipe.

The items looked just like I was expecting. I had seen them demonstrated on a YouTube channel about homesteading with Doug and Stacey. In the photo, I have got raw cabbage, onion, bell peppers, garlic and spices that I mashed repeatedly with the end of a rolling pin. This r mashing releases the juices from the vegetables and then the veggies are rammed into the mason jar, weighted down, and the pickle pipes fit inside the mason jar screw-top ring in place of the normal flat metal lid. These particular tops fit the wide mouth jars. The teat-like tops allows fermenting veggies to 'burp' without you having to remember to keep opening up the standard lid to 'burp' it, and potentially letting germs in. They stood up to me inserting them into boiling water to sterilise them before use. You can also put them in the dishwasher.