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Senior LCF Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 806
Gallery: LaurieRobo
Stats: Maintenance 175/148/less than 150
WOE: Fueling my workouts and running with plenty of FAT
Start Date: March 2002
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I have been sick the past three days now (including today) and really craved some kombucha and couldn't go get any
![]() . So- today I faked one out by adding some ACV to my saccharined decaf- not the same, but close enough to tide me over- I hope![/COLOR]. |
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#303 |
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Blabbermouth!!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 5,448
Gallery: metqa
WOE: Moderate Carbs/Atkins
Start Date: November 2003
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Poor Pepperette is under the weather!
![]() Now see, If you were Brewing, all you'd have to do is walk to the kitchen. . . So when do you want that scoby? ![]() |
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Blabbermouth!!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 5,448
Gallery: metqa
WOE: Moderate Carbs/Atkins
Start Date: November 2003
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I got some neat little cardboard tags with strings on them. So Now I can label my bottles with the date and just hang the tag around the neck. they come in two neon colors so I'm gonna use green for regular and orange for any flavored ones I make in the future.
BF is totally onto the grape juice boocha. He had to limit himself he was drinking it too fast and kept saying "Why do I feel this way" It's not caffeine! ![]() ![]() |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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Blabbermouth!!!
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[COLOR="magenta"]Jo [/COLOR] ________________________________________________ [COLOR="YellowGreen"]If hunger is not the problem, food is not the answer![/COLOR] [COLOR="DarkOrange"]Be Prepared - It's not just a Boy Scout motto anymore! [/COLOR] [COLOR="deepSkyBlue"]If anyone doesn't think their plan is the best; they should probably be looking for a new plan. - Jezzie[/COLOR] |
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#307 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I have saved 3 Synergy bottles- all I've had. Payday is next week, so if the last 3 sick days don't mess it up too badly, I'm going for a sun tea jug at WallyWorld(don't have any big jars handy), and maybe some more Synergy for the bottles. I figured if they used them, it's ok for me, too. The cranberry was really fizzy, but the bottle held up!
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" I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report it...." Will Rogers. http://learningkombucha101.blogspot.com/ Fear the bread, NOT the butter... Last edited by pepperette; 04-24-2009 at 04:04 PM.. |
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#308 |
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Blabbermouth!!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 5,448
Gallery: metqa
WOE: Moderate Carbs/Atkins
Start Date: November 2003
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How cool! Put up a link for us, kay?
I use a huge pickle jar that I begged from boyfriend. He kept recycling them. ![]() I really make more Kombucha than I need or can drink. I didn't really need a two gallon jar, but I wanted it. My one gallon Jar would have been fine at the rate I've settled to, but I think my consumption might increase with the summer heat. I bought 6 one-liter swing top bottles from HH before they went out of stock, so I'll be set for some aged Fizzy Kombucha this summer. Glass is expensive to ship. i want some 8 oz and 16 oz swingtops, but dang the shipping.
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"You have to understand zat ven a vampire forgoes . . .the b-vord, zere is a process zat ve call transference? Zey force Zemselves to desire somesing else? . . .But your friend chose . . . coffee. And now he has none." "You can find him some coffee, or . . .you can keep a vooden stake and a big knife ready. You vould be doink him a favor, believe me." 10年より若い10時間で 私は8時間 を 終わったことがあります。 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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An actice scoby pic!
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Have fun boocha babes/boys- any can borrow and use (same for the bigger one, too)![/COLOR]
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#313 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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New Movie Title:
The Scoby That Ate New York!!
Protect your loved ones- cover your scoby! ![]() Last edited by pepperette; 04-25-2009 at 05:14 PM.. |
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Blabbermouth!!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 5,448
Gallery: metqa
WOE: Moderate Carbs/Atkins
Start Date: November 2003
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Okay, so I found this recipe to clarify any flavor.
You take whatever flavor it is. Chicken broth, Chocolate, strawberry, carrot juice, whatever, and you mix it with gelatin. then you freeze it, and then you let the whole block of gelatinized liquid thaw in the fridge in a colander over a bowl. the solid stuff, and fat if any will stay in the block of gelatin, but the flavor will melt and drip out with the water. Some german dude figure this out years ago and made crystal clear carrot juice. Also made chocolate essense, completely clear and fat free meat consummes and even a bright red crystal clear strawberry essense. the last one interests me. I think it might be cool to take some off our favorite fruit flavors and clarify them and add them as flavors to the finished kombucha. You'd get the flavor without the worry of rotting fruit or funny floaty fruit bits. Cause it's gelatin I think it still wouldn't work with citrus flavors though. But berry flavors or ginger or other flavors. I wonder what chocolate boocha would taste like? Or carrot boocha? I'm testing the theory with some chicken broth I made, and if it works I'm gonna try it with strawberries. Quote:
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#316 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]LOL!
I bet you do, too!. |
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#317 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]OMG
chocolate boocha! And cranberry with- maybe- fewer carbs? I shudder in delight as I dream- could it be so? If you can make chocolate boocha, we will all to your Kombucha Brewing Majesty! [/COLOR]. |
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#319 |
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Senior LCF Member
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Okay...question from me.
I haven't read through the whole thread here, but I need some boocha advice. We've had a great, great scoby going for quite a few months now. Lots of growth, lots of babies. We were keeping two going so our brew was staggered (and we always had some). My previous attempt (a year or a year and a half ago) was not successful. I was brewing in my kitchen and my scoby got mold (and yes, it was really mold. Blue and furry!). I think a thin layer of grease got on the scoby and caused it to be hospitable to yuckies as it wasn't breathing. Okay, so fast forward. The current scoby has been doing GREAT! Truly wonderful. Loving the brew. I use a huge glass jar from Ikea topped w/ cheesecloth (a few layers) and a rubberband. I keep it in a walk in pantry that is in my kitchen. DH pulled back the cloth the other day and we found little fruitflies (I have them in my kitchen this week. The weather here in NC has been 90 degrees!). A few actual flies on the scoby surface, plus (get ready for TMI) a few teensy, tiny crawling maggot/wormy things They were so small you could barely tell they were there, except they were moving ![]() The scoby is thick. I am wondering if you'd chance pulling off the top few layers and trying to save it. Is that crazy? I didn't see any yuck in the actual *tea*/brew, but definitely on the surface. Most advice I'm reading says cheesecloth and a rubberband should keep them out, but it sure didn't for me. I was hesitant to use something more solid like a cloth napkin or coffee filter for fear I'd run into problems having it breathe enough again. I'm guessing I need to move to something more solid like a cloth napkin or coffee filter. One other tip I saw was to try two bay leaves on the scoby surface to deter bugs, and setting fruitfly traps (boocha and dishsoap in a container to lure them in and then kill them). Any tips? Has this happened to anyone else? Start over or peel it and pray ![]() |
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#320 |
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Blabbermouth!!!
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[COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]brittone2 , I just started my first brew yesteday so no fruit flies. You'd gotta wonder about me if there was
. I am sure one of the real experts will have an answer for you shortly.I started 2- 1 gal jars (covered with coffee filters/rubber bands) yesterday. I guess I should have staggered them, but I have a feeling that I will be adding a couple more gallons and I will stagger those. I already have to beat my 16 yr old son away from my synergy with a stick - he'd drive us into poverty if I allowed him to drink as much as he would like.[/COLOR] |
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Senior LCF Member
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#322 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Duvall, WA
Posts: 1,783
Gallery: BikerAng
Stats: 195/167/155 5'9"
WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised
Start Date: Feb 2007
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Oh no!
I'm only on my second batch of boocha, but I'm using coffee filters and the brew seems to be doing fine (no bugs/mold). I don't know if you can salvage the scobe, darn that stinks! |
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#323 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]So far everything I have read, and the videos all say NOT to use cheesecloth as the openings between threads was too large. They said to use clean handkerchiefs, or a piece of sheet or towel. Just something to allow the scoby to breathe and keep the fruit flies out.
I have some never been used, neon green- black spider and web halloween material. Thought I'd dig it out, give it a wash and use that as a cover. If I'm gonna have a scarey growth in my house, I might as well get a laugh or two from it! [/COLOR]. |
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#324 |
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Blabbermouth!!!
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 5,448
Gallery: metqa
WOE: Moderate Carbs/Atkins
Start Date: November 2003
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Whoo Hoo, It worked!
Here are photos of my frozen gelatinized chicken broth. the broth that has dripped off of the gelatin mass, and the crystal clear result! It tastes just like my chicken broth, but I can't feel any fat in it with my tongue ( THAT was a little disturbing hey we wouldn't need fat in our flavors, right) Oh Wow, I'm gonna use this broth for my shrimp soup tonight. I wish I had taken a picture of the broth before I started. It looked like normal broth, it was cloudy even though I strained it and you couldn't see through it. it didn't look clear like apple juice like this stuff does. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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#325 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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![]() ![]() ![]() [COLOR="DarkGreen"](...waiting for the chocolate trial...)[/COLOR] ![]() . |
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#326 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Duvall, WA
Posts: 1,783
Gallery: BikerAng
Stats: 195/167/155 5'9"
WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised
Start Date: Feb 2007
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Woah, that is some seriously clear chicken broth!
Cool, I'll be giving this a try for the boocha flavors! Thanks for testing this Metqa! |
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#327 |
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Fat Burning Machine Extraordinaire!
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Oooh, send me the chocolate!
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#328 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I just want the chocolate recipe!
That's all, just a measley recipe! I can make it if I knew exactly what was used, and how.![]() (Do you think I've whined and cried enough to get metqa to try the chocolate one and give out the recipe?)[/COLOR] . |
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#329 |
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Blabbermouth!!!
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[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]metqa, please, listen to the woman!!! How pathetic does pepperette have to get?! Have some sympathy for the poor lady!
![]() Ok, we got whining and now begging - think that will work? [/COLOR] |
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#330 |
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MAJOR LCF POSTER!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kansas City, MO.
Posts: 1,594
Gallery: pepperette
Stats: 268.8/235.8/145 wishful thinking
WOE: Low Carb only since 11/21/07
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