Quest for nonPasteurised sauerkraut...

[A Moose in Love]

Did I find it? I purchased today, a 1 liter jar of Strubs wine
sauerkraut. It was the only brand sitting in the cooled area beside
the meat department. The other brands are on store shelves.
So I reasoned, since this is being kept cold, it might be non
pasteurised. Am I correct? Pasteurisation destroys much of the
goodness found in sauerkraut.
The label says Strubs Wine Sauerkraut.

[Nancy2]

On Jun 5, 11:12 am, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Pasteurized sauerkraut? What the heck is that? I never heard of it.
My German g'mama made sauerkraut every year, and there wa'nt no
daggone pasteurization involved.

N.

[A Moose in Love]

We used to make it too; no pasteurization. But the stuff on the
regular room temperature shelf at the SM is pasteurized. I'm guessing
that the stuff in the cooler at the SM is non pasteurized.

[Brooklyn1]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:50:14 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
<ellor...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 5, 11:12�am, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Did I find it? �I purchased today, a 1 liter jar of Strubs wine
>> sauerkraut. �It was the only brand sitting in the cooled area beside
>> the meat department. �The other brands are on store shelves.
>> So I reasoned, since this is being kept cold, it might be non
>> pasteurised. �Am I correct? �Pasteurisation destroys much of the
>> goodness found in sauerkraut.
>> The label says Strubs Wine Sauerkraut.
>
>Pasteurized sauerkraut? What the heck is that? I never heard of it.

Canned.
>
>N.

[Chemo the Clown]

On Jun 5, 12:42 pm, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com>

Try a health food store.

[Doug Freyburger]

Nancy2 wrote:
>
> Pasteurized sauerkraut? What the heck is that? I never heard of it.

The canning process could be included in pasteurization. Any canned
kraut will be pasteurized.

Because kraut is a fermented product there's risk of the bacteria going
crazy. Were I to seel kraut frozen or in plastic bags I'd pasteurize it
to kill the culture.

[Victor Sack]

Cannot tell you anything about that Strubs product, but correctly
produced sauerkraut needs no pasteurisation, nor refrigeration. Raw,
unpasteurised, unrefrigerated sauerkraut is sold out of the barrels at
markets and butcher shops here in Germany. Raw commercially-packed
unpasteurised, unrefrigerated sauerkraut in plastic pouches is sold in
supermarkets. One example is Leuchtenberg brand "Frisches Wein
Sauerkraut" I have here. It is explicitly labelled as non-pasteurised
and it is stated that the sealed pouch requires no refrigeration. (I
keep it refrigerated, all the same, but only because I like my raw
sauerkraut cold if I choose to eat is "as is" - which is often.)

Victor

[A Moose in Love]

I did. It's a good idea, but they don't have sauerkraut at all.
There is only one health food store here in Kitchener that I know of.
Maybe there are more, so I should check them out if there are. There
are many supplement shops, but health food stores???

[A Moose in Love]

On Jun 5, 6:20 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:50:14 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2 wrote:
> > On Jun 5, 11:12 am, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Did I find it?  I purchased today, a 1 liter jar of Strubs wine
> >> sauerkraut.  It was the only brand sitting in the cooled area beside
> >> the meat department.  The other brands are on store shelves.
> >> So I reasoned, since this is being kept cold, it might be non
> >> pasteurised.  Am I correct?  Pasteurisation destroys much of the
> >> goodness found in sauerkraut.
> >> The label says Strubs Wine Sauerkraut.
>

> It may not be pasteurized, but it's probably not live, either.
> Bubbies is my standby for live sauerkraut.  I think Ba Tempte has one,
> too.

>
> > Pasteurized sauerkraut?  What the heck is that?  I never heard of it.
> > My German g'mama made sauerkraut every year, and there wa'nt no
> > daggone pasteurization involved.
>

> Anything that's canned has been pasteurized (heated) as part of the
> canning process.  This kills the bacteria that causes sauerkraut to
> ferment.
>
> -sw

I haven't seen Bubbies brand here. I went to the website of Strubs,
and didn't find out if their kraut was pasteurized or not. So I sent
them an e mail. Hopefully I'll find out, with good results.
on a different note...
A few years back, a friend of mine who isn't a kraut fan gave me a can
of imported sauerkraut from Germany. About 20 minutes after eating, I
had to go to the can with you know the runs. Now I have read that
eating raw sauerkraut might do that to the uninitiated. So I was
wondering, if maybe that stuff was not pasteurized???
And the jar I purchased today, did no such thing. ?????

[A Moose in Love]

On Jun 5, 5:44 pm, azaze...@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote:

I haven't seen any sauerkraut here that is labled non-pasteurised. We
do have a certain brand that is in a bag, and is kept on a
refrigerated shelf. Also, there is a Polish Delicatessen that sells
sauerkraut out of pails; kept refrigerated. Maybe that's the real
deal. I asked one girl that worked there if it was non pasteurised,
and she didn't know.
We used to make it in five gallon crocks.
btw, this Strubs brand sauerkraut that I purchased is simply
delicious.

[Nunya Bidnits]

Frank's sells small pouches of kraut. They are in an unrefrigerated retail
display rack next to the packaged cold cuts and deli meats. I don't know if
it's been heated the same way as canned kraut since I don't have any on
hand, but it works interchangably with Frank's in cans.

MartyB