The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables.

The tool is intended to encourage users to pickle their leftover food ? everything from unused carrots to watermelon skin ? rather than throw it away.

The butternut squash-shaped container is designed to make fermentation more straightforward. Chopped vegetables are placed in its inner vessel, salt and water added, and the lid replaced to start the process. The dome-shaped cap keeps the container airtight and the food submerged in the brine.

"The user-friendly design is a modern reinterpretation of a forgotten process," said the team, who have also designed an accompanying recipe book for the Brinery.
Using fermentation, unwanted vegetables can be rescued from the back of the fridge and preserved for months ? eventually becoming a rich source of probiotic bacteria.

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