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post #41 of 100
11/24/10 at 2:44pm

Great Yea I found the source to buy it from one of the sites that you had posted on another forum on this site so I am going to order some so I can get started  on the Keifer!
Ernie

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post #42 of 100
11/24/10 at 2:47pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emarble 

Great Yea I found the source to buy it from one of the sites that you had posted on another forum on this site so I am going to order some so I can get started  on the Keifer!
Ernie


Making Kombucha (one gallon)

You will need:
One scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)
One cup of starter (already made kombucha)
One gallon of boiling water
Seven Black tea teabags
Two cups of sugar

Bring one gallon of water to a boil and then turn it off.
Add two cups of  sugar and seven black tea teabags to the very hot water.
Let the hot water with sugar and tea bags sit until the water cools.
Remove the tea bags from the cooled water.

Have the scoby and a cup of starter in the bottom of a very-wide-mouth glass container. The opening of the container should be wider than the depth of the liquid in it.  The process needs the surface area for air/breathing.
Pour the cooled water into the glass container with the scoby and one cup of starter.
Cover the glass container with a cloth, not a glass lid; the mixture has to breathe. 


After seven days remove the new (baby) scoby from the top of the old one (mother).  Last weeks scoby (the mother) can be give to somebody else as a starter or thrown away.  Note: If a new scoby (baby) looks underdeveloped, keep old (mother) and new (baby) together for another week before you separate them.
Strain your fresh kombucha into a glass container(s) and refrigerate. Use one cup of the fresh kombucha (starter) and the baby scoby (to be a new mother)  to make a new batch for next week.
***********
Walmart has these for about $15  http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/9574_glass_jar.jpg


Edited by joebryant - 11/24/10 at 2:57pm
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post #43 of 100
11/24/10 at 2:49pm

I have made the kombucha in the past, got my mother on it for her rhuematoid arthritis...cured her! But I could never get used to drinking it...no matter how long or short the time I let it grow, it would always make me want to "hurl" it back up. So I finally gave up. Anyway, does kefir taste like yogurt or buttermilk. I could eat it if it tasted like yogurt, but not if it tastes like buttermilk sickbyc

Mom to 3 sons, 2 horses, 1 Chesapeake, 2 BO's, 1 SLW, and 7 refrigerator chicks (eggs hatched after being refrigerated), they are 5 SLW's and 2 BO/SLW crosses.
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Mom to 3 sons, 2 horses, 1 Chesapeake, 2 BO's, 1 SLW, and 7 refrigerator chicks (eggs hatched after being refrigerated), they are 5 SLW's and 2 BO/SLW crosses.
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post #44 of 100
11/24/10 at 2:58pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by oldchickenlady 

I have made the kombucha in the past, got my mother on it for her rhuematoid arthritis...cured her! But I could never get used to drinking it...no matter how long or short the time I let it grow, it would always make me want to "hurl" it back up. So I finally gave up. Anyway, does kefir taste like yogurt or buttermilk. I could eat it if it tasted like yogurt, but not if it tastes like buttermilk sickbyc


The taste is like 25% plain yogurt and 75% buttermilk combined.

Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
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Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
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post #45 of 100
11/24/10 at 3:11pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by joebryant 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emarble 

Great Yea I found the source to buy it from one of the sites that you had posted on another forum on this site so I am going to order some so I can get started  on the Keifer!
Ernie


Making Kombucha (one gallon)

You will need:
One scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)
One cup of starter (already made kombucha)
One gallon of boiling water
Seven Black tea teabags
Two cups of sugar

Bring one gallon of water to a boil and then turn it off.
Add two cups of  sugar and seven black tea teabags to the very hot water.
Let the hot water with sugar and tea bags sit until the water cools.
Remove the tea bags from the cooled water.

Have the scoby and a cup of starter in the bottom of a very-wide-mouth glass container. The opening of the container should be wider than the depth of the liquid in it.  The process needs the surface area for air/breathing.
Pour the cooled water into the glass container with the scoby and one cup of starter.
Cover the glass container with a cloth, not a glass lid; the mixture has to breathe. 


After seven days remove the new (baby) scoby from the top of the old one (mother).  Last weeks scoby (the mother) can be give to somebody else as a starter or thrown away.  Note: If a new scoby (baby) looks underdeveloped, keep old (mother) and new (baby) together for another week before you separate them.
Strain your fresh kombucha into a glass container(s) and refrigerate. Use one cup of the fresh kombucha (starter) and the baby scoby (to be a new mother)  to make a new batch for next week.
***********
Walmart has these for about $15  http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/9574_glass_jar.jpg


So do you feed the old one (the old mother to the chickens like I have heard some others do) and do you use the same type jar for your keifer! I have seen the jars like that with spicots that you coud just drain the keifer milk off and the add more milk to the grain????

He who is seeking his own happiness and who punishes those who also long for happiness is running after a chimera. No happiness shall come his way for having destroyed that of others
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ M.K. Gandhi
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He who is seeking his own happiness and who punishes those who also long for happiness is running after a chimera. No happiness shall come his way for having destroyed that of others
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ M.K. Gandhi
Reply
post #46 of 100
11/24/10 at 3:14pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by joebryant 
Quote:
Originally Posted by oldchickenlady 

I have made the kombucha in the past, got my mother on it for her rhuematoid arthritis...cured her! But I could never get used to drinking it...no matter how long or short the time I let it grow, it would always make me want to "hurl" it back up. So I finally gave up. Anyway, does kefir taste like yogurt or buttermilk. I could eat it if it tasted like yogurt, but not if it tastes like buttermilk sickbyc


The taste is like 25% plain yogurt and 75% buttermilk combined.


Thanks joebryant, I guess kefir is not for me. I think I will check out the recipes, maybe I could find something to make with it and not have to drink it plain.

Mom to 3 sons, 2 horses, 1 Chesapeake, 2 BO's, 1 SLW, and 7 refrigerator chicks (eggs hatched after being refrigerated), they are 5 SLW's and 2 BO/SLW crosses.
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Mom to 3 sons, 2 horses, 1 Chesapeake, 2 BO's, 1 SLW, and 7 refrigerator chicks (eggs hatched after being refrigerated), they are 5 SLW's and 2 BO/SLW crosses.
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post #47 of 100
11/24/10 at 3:20pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emarble 

So do you feed the old one (the old mother to the chickens like I have heard some others do) and do you use the same type jar for your keifer! I have seen the jars like that with spicots that you coud just drain the keifer milk off and the add more milk to the grain????


Yes, I cubed and fed about every other one to the chickens.  You don't want one with a metal spigot; neither kifer or kombucha should be kept in/touching metal, and kombucha should not be kept in/touching plastic.

Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
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Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
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post #48 of 100
11/24/10 at 5:02pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by joebryant 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emarble 

Great Yea I found the source to buy it from one of the sites that you had posted on another forum on this site so I am going to order some so I can get started  on the Keifer!
Ernie


Making Kombucha (one gallon)

You will need:
One scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)
One cup of starter (already made kombucha)
One gallon of boiling water
Seven Black tea teabags
Two cups of sugar

Bring one gallon of water to a boil and then turn it off.
Add two cups of  sugar and seven black tea teabags to the very hot water.
Let the hot water with sugar and tea bags sit until the water cools.
Remove the tea bags from the cooled water.

Have the scoby and a cup of starter in the bottom of a very-wide-mouth glass container. The opening of the container should be wider than the depth of the liquid in it.  The process needs the surface area for air/breathing.
Pour the cooled water into the glass container with the scoby and one cup of starter.
Cover the glass container with a cloth, not a glass lid; the mixture has to breathe. 


After seven days remove the new (baby) scoby from the top of the old one (mother).  Last weeks scoby (the mother) can be give to somebody else as a starter or thrown away.  Note: If a new scoby (baby) looks underdeveloped, keep old (mother) and new (baby) together for another week before you separate them.
Strain your fresh kombucha into a glass container(s) and refrigerate. Use one cup of the fresh kombucha (starter) and the baby scoby (to be a new mother)  to make a new batch for next week.
***********
Walmart has these for about $15  http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/9574_glass_jar.jpg


I have that container in 2 gallon size.
I leave one quart behind as a starter.. I boil 7 quarts of water with 1 3/4 cup organic sugar and the right amount of tea bags fro regular strength tea.  I use a linen towel to cover and keep in the dark

ON

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"Nothing is lost, nothing is created ... all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life."-- Antoine Béchamp

The "blues"  Ameraucana and Marans
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post #49 of 100
11/24/10 at 7:04pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Organics North 
Quote:
Originally Posted by joebryant 
Quote:
Originally Posted by emarble 

Great Yea I found the source to buy it from one of the sites that you had posted on another forum on this site so I am going to order some so I can get started  on the Keifer!
Ernie


Making Kombucha (one gallon)

You will need:
One scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)
One cup of starter (already made kombucha)
One gallon of boiling water
Seven Black tea teabags
Two cups of sugar

Bring one gallon of water to a boil and then turn it off.
Add two cups of  sugar and seven black tea teabags to the very hot water.
Let the hot water with sugar and tea bags sit until the water cools.
Remove the tea bags from the cooled water.

Have the scoby and a cup of starter in the bottom of a very-wide-mouth glass container. The opening of the container should be wider than the depth of the liquid in it.  The process needs the surface area for air/breathing.
Pour the cooled water into the glass container with the scoby and one cup of starter.
Cover the glass container with a cloth, not a glass lid; the mixture has to breathe. 


After seven days remove the new (baby) scoby from the top of the old one (mother).  Last weeks scoby (the mother) can be give to somebody else as a starter or thrown away.  Note: If a new scoby (baby) looks underdeveloped, keep old (mother) and new (baby) together for another week before you separate them.
Strain your fresh kombucha into a glass container(s) and refrigerate. Use one cup of the fresh kombucha (starter) and the baby scoby (to be a new mother)  to make a new batch for next week.
***********
Walmart has these for about $15  http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/9574_glass_jar.jpg


I have that container in 2 gallon size.
I leave one quart behind as a starter.. I boil 7 quarts of water with 1 3/4 cup organic sugar and the right amount of tea bags fro regular strength tea.  I use a linen towel to cover and keep in the dark

ON


I'd buy another jar if I wanted to make a double batch.

Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
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Breathes there a woman with soul so dead who never once looked up and said,
"Gee, what can I do for Joe Bryant today."

The best laid plans of mice and men go oft' awry.
Reply
post #50 of 100
11/24/10 at 7:36pm

Thanks for letting me pick your brain on this! Im gonna give it a try and will post everyone to the results

Ernie

He who is seeking his own happiness and who punishes those who also long for happiness is running after a chimera. No happiness shall come his way for having destroyed that of others
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ M.K. Gandhi
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He who is seeking his own happiness and who punishes those who also long for happiness is running after a chimera. No happiness shall come his way for having destroyed that of others
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ M.K. Gandhi
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