Preserved

Awesome place to learn about fermented foods

Super cool place with a huge variety of fun stuff. Definitely going back for more fermenting, cheese making, pickling, etc supplies.

A fun place to shop for your friends who like to cook, bake etc. Good stocking stuffers.

Wonderful, unique and unusual small store focusing on fermentation and accessories. Super helpful and knowledgeable staff. Right now I have 2 one gallon kombucha brews going and 1 red and 1 white wine vinegars. Worthy of your support.

Love this place, could literally buy one of everything if I had the money and space to store it all.

So much of our food culture has its origins in preserving the harvest. Humans have invented so many ways to preserve food and this store carries everything you need to get started. Korean kimchi classes, mason jars, lactic acid bacteria, cheese cloth, salt, etc. Worth the stop.

Superb, encyclopedic source for supplies and advice on how to preserve or pickle just about anything

Visiting the SF/Oakland area, and stopped in to bring a live starter back home. Staff was very friendly and helpful. And my starter is doing great!

Really cute shop. A little pricey, but I haven't really done price comparisons... so for all I know the prices could be standard. Lots of neat kits, tools, and books to make your own bread, pasta, kombucha, pickles, butter, cheese, etc.

So full of lovely fermentation tools, starters, and tasty treats. Yay!! 😻

Ordered online from their website - good selection of kombucha supplies, accessories, and unique flavorings. Not the cheapest prices, but overall excellent quality. My order shipped same day and came with a handwritten thank you note! Hope to visit the store in person someday.

Owner violates the health order by letting people in their store without wearing masks and talking to them for 20 minutes without a mask on even after I told them that they should make the person wear a mask for everyone else's safety. In their small store their droplets would linger in the air for half an hour exposing everyone that comes to shop there. I've taken classes here and shopped here in the past but never again. We have a spike in cases and people are dying because of selfish people like the owner. Support a business that cares about your health and the health of our community.

Great store and super helpful! They were taking excellent safety precautions as awell.

Bought live/wet water kefir grains from Preserved back in January 2020, they're still going strong feeding them with Sucanat/Turbinado :) Preserved sells some quality products and are very helpful if you are starting out or just curious!

What a great little shop. I’ve been pickling home grown peppers and pickles for a couple years and heard about this place only recently. I was on the mission to do some sauerkraut to cap off some home made pastrami I was working on, and decided to check out this shop. What a gem. I wish I went earlier. So many great things and it’s local. Julia was a pleasant and knowledgeable person and helped me get a few things along with some advice. I will surely go back and am pretty pumped on getting into a couple classes there. It’s places like this that make a community and I hope they will be here a long time!

Loved the jam making class on Sunday night! I would take ALL of the classes offered if I had the chance. This store is full of incredible supplies for all kinds of kitchen adventures in the realm of fermentation and preservation. Highly recommended for foodies!

The most well stocked and friendly fermentation spot, that I have ever visited.

I love this shop and its classes. The first time I went for a Camembert class which was super fun and informative—I especially liked that they sent us home with a wheel to age on our own. The second time was for the kombucha class — they also sent us home with a SCOBY so we could start our own brew right away. The store itself is very well curated—they don’t have a lot of stuff but it’s all stuff you want! It’s an excellent store with a side of experience and I can’t wait to learn more from it 🙂

Where to start?! I went here on a Sunday searching for a few odds and ends for brewing beer and was delightfully surprised at the gem that is Preserved. Although there isn't a super comprehensive collection of actual beer related stuff, she had just what I needed and I left with much more. I want to start doing ALL of the things you can do with the stuff here... Plus, Elizabeth is super knowledgable, helpful, and passionate! Highlights: - Items for people of ALL price ranges. She had super-schnazzy-mega jars and just general use masons and everything in between. Something for everyone. - Elizabeth knows a TON about this stuff. I felt bad picking her brain as she offers classes often which take place at the shop, but she's passionate and super friendly so it was natural. - Tastings. She let me taste some of the booch she was making and some water that used a filter offered there. Here's a little rundown of what was available: - Specialty jars: All very functional and very pretty. Some were for pickling, some were just cool all glass sealing for general use, some for Kombucha. Within each type there were many to choose from. - Kits: Full setups to make beer/wine/mead/cider/vinegar/etc, incl the jugs, airlocks, racking canes, cultures, flavors, grains, seeds, funnels, mothers, etc. etc. etc. - Sprouting - Kefir (water & otherwise) - Yogurt & cheese (vegan options too) - Books and more books - Bone broth (so hip) I am missing so much but check out the website or give them a call! Actually yeah, just go in. If it is a style of DIY food making, they probably have it, and they probably have literally everything you need as a beginner or advanced maker of things. Absolutely worth a visit.

Really well curated selection of products and books to make jams, kombucha, vinegar, butter, tinctures, cheese, and other fermented and homemade products. The staff is really knowledgeable and they have a lot of courses you can pay for. While not necessarily the best prices, it's nice to not have to buy a dozen jars or lids at once and support a local shop instead of Amazon.