Our story
Our story
Hellyn's Kitchen is not a company. It's our kitchen at home. Hellyn loves kimchi, and after years of never finding a really good jar in Barcelona, she started making her own.
Friends tried it and asked for more. Then friends of friends. Then people we'd never met were asking when the next batch would be ready, so we put up this little page to keep track of jars.
Everything is made by hand, one big batch at a time: the napa cabbage is salted, then marinated with fresh, hand-mixed ingredients, and the jars ferment slowly over a few days before going into the fridge. Every batch is made fresh for the orders that come in, and we let you know as soon as yours is ready.
What we care about
- 100% natural fermentationNo vinegar, no preservatives, no pasteurisation. Just salt, time and cabbage doing their thing.
- Live probiotic culturesEvery jar is unpasteurised so the lactobacillus stays alive. That is the whole point of kimchi.
- Hand-cut, premium ingredientsNapa cabbage, daikon, onion, scallions, garlic, ginger, Korean chilli flakes. Nothing you can't pronounce.
- Made this week, not this yearSmall batches, made to order in our home kitchen. You get a jar that was made days ago, not one that sat in a warehouse.
