Lacto-fermenting, kombucha, mead, sourdough, chocolate and dyes — the percentages that keep a batch safe, the guides that explain them, and the log sheets that keep the dates straight.
The stage cycles the picks on its own — a muted channel of real ferments and brews. Below: the pantry read — three abreast, endless, with the week’s notes slotted between the videos.
Fresh from the cellar
News, new log sheets, what the along is fermenting — nothing here is for sale.
New: the site is open — free log sheets, calculators, and the launch note about why every percentage names its base.
Now printing: the fermentation log, the brine table by jar size, the OG→ABV card, and the % OWF dye card.
First Friday of the month — one recipe, one log sheet, everybody. next drop: loading…
Interactive: a working jar's bubbles, the airlock breathing — the ferments animated, with step controls.
The shelf
Ferments, brews and dyes — each shelf carries the math that makes the craft work. The app, Cultured Bench, packs all of it: thirty calculators that always say what a percentage is a percentage of.
Long-form, tested — the weights, the timeline, and what to do when the surface looks wrong.
The 2% rule, dry-salt vs brine, submersion, the three stages, and the honest read on what's Kahm and what's mold.
Read the guide →SCOBY care, the 21-day arc, bottling for fizz without bottles becoming bombs, and the pH checkpoints.
Read the guide →Must math, nutrients staggered by gravity, racking, and the OG/FG pair that answers "how strong is it?"
Read the guide →Feeding ratios, the fridge trick, reviving, and the discard that's actually useful.
Read the guide →Extraction, mordants, percentage-of-fiber-weight, and the swatch page that makes a dye diary worth keeping.
Read the guide →What's here
Log sheets, calculators, video shelves, guides for the parts that go wrong. All free.
Salt % by water weight, OG→FG→ABV, brine scaling by jar — right in the browser, no account.
Channel-surf the eight shelves on real makers, and the shelf games that drill the math.
Guides, the cellar wiki, and the science: pH, the lactic-acid arc, why mordants bite.
Send an email with LIST in the subject and be told when a log sheet or guide lands. Mail volume: cellar-speed.
Building with the app? Cultured Bench works offline, no account.
The bench family
Cultured Bench sits with the maker apps. Dye your warp with these percentages; braid the cord with the apps that chart it.
Patterns for eleven bead crafts — charts at true bead size, shopping lists with codes.
🧶Tablet weaving, inkle, macramé, alphas and rugs — real drafts, plus the DMC spectrum.
🎭The costume workshop: masks, props, LEDs, and the cues that bring them alive.
🌍The live Earth on a desk globe — cloud data and the day/night terminator.
🫧The slime & squishy site where all this family style started — recipes, games, the curriculum.