Mira

It carries on getting more sour rather than more garlicky, so you trade one strong flavour for another. That is when it stops being a side dish and becomes stew kimchi, which is not a loss. Taste every few days and decide which jar you want.

The first fix is the only one most people need and they will not wait for it. Fresh kimchi tastes like raw garlic because it contains raw garlic; two weeks in the fridge and it tastes like kimchi.

I have talked three people out of throwing a batch away by telling them to put it at the back of the fridge and not look at it until the middle of the month. All three came back to say it was fine.