SOLIGT 12" Sauerkraut Pounder for Mason Jars Vegetable Fermentation- One Piece of Solid Wood

Great for pounding cabbage into Sourcrout. I’ve made Sourcrout with my hands before and this just makes it so much easier to pound and squish the cabbage! Has a big end and a small end for smaller jars. Today I just used it to smash down my dried herbs for tea. Worked soo well. Saved my hands from getting torn up from the pokies. Great quality!

I've only had this tamper for 2 days, but have used it. I used olive oil on it prior to use/wash, immediately out of the box. I let it sit a bit, then used to tamp some fermenting turnip (for sauerruben). Both ends are highly functional, and the tamper is beautiful wood with no apparent defects. I can't speak to durability but I can only imagine if it is cared for it will last decades like my old wooden spoons and bowls from Africa that I got in the late '90's. Great value for money. I'll oil the wood after each fermentation session to keep it from splitting. I prefer to use food-grade oils like olive or walnut (coconut doesn't work as well in my experience) to using mineral oil and other sealing/conditioning products.

good solid wooden no non-sense pounder. It has the added benefit for being able to insert pounder into both small mouth and large mouth Mason jars.

I have used the pounder off and on all summer long making kraut. It have been in brine several times and other liquids without any issues happening to the wood. I was worried when reading some other reviews because some stated it split on them on the first and second use. I have not experienced any cracking or issues and would recommend it to anyone that needs it to use for canning. I am sure it could be used for many other things as well. it is very easy to hold on to when working with it and it is light weight and fits nicely in the size of my hand.

It is a beautiful piece of workmanship and works as advertised.

Update 2 (4/1/2022): After using the replacement sent to me by the seller for a week while also sealing with refined coconut oil, no more cracking. Each time I use it, I wash, towel dry and then apply coconut oil by hand until the whole stomper is glossy- making sure to coat the ends. I then leave it on the counter to allow it to absorb the oil effectively sealing it. This has prevented cracking, although, it's more effort than I originally planned on going through. Be sure to seal, or it will crack. Update 1 (3/23/2022): Went from 1 star to 3 stars. The seller reached out soon after my review and offered to send me a new pounder, free of charge. I'm going to take the reccomendation from the Q&A on this item and seal my new pounder with coconut oil after each use. There is no instruction on doing this provided by the seller and no mention of needing to do it on the product packaging. I'll see how the sealing goes and see if cracking is prevented. Original review: I've had this for about 3 days and it's already splitting.. It's sturdy, has great weight to it and is ergonomically shaped but all of that means little if it's splitting so soon. The cracks aren't ideal because they can harbor undesired bacteria and you don't want that in your ferments.

Good, solid, well made wood pounder. We used it to make sauerkraut.

It works! Solid wood, easy to use, and looks good too! Just looking for some muscle to help out!