Antique Fermentation Crock

This weekend I visited a local auction. I was very interested to find that they were auctioning off a wide variety of antique crocks. I was completely compelled to buy one! I have a love of antiques to begin with, but I felt intrigued to learn more about how people used these crocks for pickling and fermenting. I ended up buying two. One is a large 20 gallon crock, which I was told would have been used for pickling.

The second is a smaller one gallon crock, which would have been used for fermenting.

I'm not sure that I'm daring enough to try fermenting in them now. Although it would be quite interesting to compare it to the fermented product produced in a glass container. I hope you are all as interested by these as I was!