Fermentation Nerd Hats

Fermentation is the oldest kitchen project there is, and the people who do it at home have a sense of humor about it. They keep SCOBYs, the Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast behind kombucha, in jars by the sink. They burp kimchi jars in the morning and weigh down cabbage under brine in a crock. They ask online whether the film on top is kahm yeast or mold, one of the most typed questions in the hobby. Sandor Katz turned this into a movement: The Art of Fermentation won the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and the New York Times called him one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene. These fermentation hats are for that crowd. Badges name the hobby and the kombucha brewer. The sentence designs carry the bits: the defense that it is not rotten, it is fermented, the two billion bacteria on the payroll, the kimchi jars burped every morning, the kombucha mother, the counter that doubles as a petri dish, and the honest question of whether that is mold or genius. The It's Not Rotten and Two Billion Bacteria lines each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the crock, or give one to the friend who keeps handing you jars.