Kombucha - Page 15

Faia · 05-13-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by metqa

Scoby Psychiatry!

My babies! They keep growing up and moving away. Some just move to the fancy new jars down the shelf, but some of them have vanished, never to be seen again! Oh, my poor babies!

JoSkids · 05-13-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Faia

My babies! They keep growing up and moving away. Some just move to the fancy new jars down the shelf, but some of them have vanished, never to be seen again! Oh, my poor babies!

[COLOR="Indigo"]Well, some scoby therapists put all the blame on the mother Just be wary of them.[/COLOR]

Kamalam · 05-13-2009, 04:26 PM

So that brings me to another question... I know at some point I will have to par down my scoby - I doubt anyone I know would want the remainder. So basically.... I throw some of it away?! I feel like a criminal just thinking about it!

pepperette · 05-13-2009, 05:14 PM

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I tasted the brew just now and about coughed myself to death- sucked the liquid a bit too vigorously and it went right down the wrong pipe! Other than that, it is still too sweet, but I could tell there is a hint of tartness starting- maybe try again Fri. or Sat.. Got a small piece of ginger root at the store for one flavor, and just ordered some concentrates for the others- got cranberry, blueberry, and pomegranate. Also picked up another jar of pickles so I have another brewing jar or a safe place to store the extra scobies.[/COLOR]

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Faia · 05-13-2009, 07:28 PM

pepperette -- You started on May 4th?

pepperette · 05-13-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Faia

pepperette -- You started on May 4th?

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Sure did. Even marked it on the calendar.[/COLOR]

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BikerAng · 05-14-2009, 08:46 AM

my first batch took 2 weeks (maybe a little longer). The second batch took about 10 days or so. Got the third batch brewing now, only on day 3 though. I think it really depends on the warmth of your house that determines the brewing time.

Kamalam - I feel bad thinking about tossing out any of my scoby's too! My SIL loves kombucha and I'm going to give her some scoby's to start brewing her own. I'm going to try to find people that want scoby's so I don't feel guilty :GASP: throwing them away! I may also compost some if I have more than I can find homes for.

metqa · 05-14-2009, 09:05 AM

I've heard that chickens and dogs like to chew on them.

BikerAng · 05-14-2009, 09:50 AM

I'll dry some out too then, and give them to my MIL who has a bunch of chickens and dogs!

Natural chew toys, cool!

Kamalam · 05-14-2009, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by BikerAng

my first batch took 2 weeks (maybe a little longer). The second batch took about 10 days or so. Got the third batch brewing now, only on day 3 though. I think it really depends on the warmth of your house that determines the brewing time.

Kamalam - I feel bad thinking about tossing out any of my scoby's too! My SIL loves kombucha and I'm going to give her some scoby's to start brewing her own. I'm going to try to find people that want scoby's so I don't feel guilty :GASP: throwing them away! I may also compost some if I have more than I can find homes for.

Ang, composting sounds like a winner... Thanks for that great suggestion! Wonder if there was a way to dehydrate and eat?? Or is that kind of weird? Just had a thought about scoby crackers!

BikerAng · 05-14-2009, 11:52 AM

Maybe with the new ones that form because they are so thin? I think they would be VERY chewy though.

metqa · 05-14-2009, 12:13 PM

even the one i dehydrated is still flexible and rubbery I think eating it would not be pleasant. It still smells like itself.

metqa · 05-14-2009, 06:43 PM

/wow and the vinegeryness of it would be a great toner!

LaurieRobo · 05-15-2009, 06:00 AM

I have been feeding my extras and huge ones to the compost pile... Something in our yard - deer, coyotes,

which animal likes them, cause they are always gone the next morning...

I'm going to have healthy wild life!

Faia · 05-15-2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by metqa

even the one i dehydrated is still flexible and rubbery I think eating it would not be pleasant. It still smells like itself.

Slice it thin and fry like Japanese noodles?

I'm willing to try anything. If it turns out bad I don't necessarily have to admit to having tried it. Or maybe serve them to tourists...

JoSkids · 05-15-2009, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaurieRobo

I have been feeding my extras and huge ones to the compost pile... Something in our yard - deer, coyotes,

which animal likes them, cause they are always gone the next morning...

I'm going to have healthy wild life!

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Scoby & coyotes?! Better keep an eye on that little yorkie![/COLOR]

Kamalam · 05-15-2009, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faia

Slice it thin and fry like Japanese noodles?

I'm willing to try anything. If it turns out bad I don't necessarily have to admit to having tried it. Or maybe serve them to tourists...

I hope you let us know... I am very curious if it is edible in any way!

pepperette · 05-15-2009, 07:07 PM

YouTube - Geeks Making Kombucha Tea

pepperette · 05-16-2009, 08:13 PM

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Today was bottling day for my 1st batch of kombucha. I like the plain as I did it. Not too tart, yet not sweet, and very refreshing ! I made two plain, 3 ginger, and had about 8 oz. left that I chilled and drank (the rest went for the new starter). The others I am letting ferment a few more days to get the fizz facter going.
Looking at the scobies, there are so many layers, I was amazed! Now just waiting for the juice concentrates to arrive so I can flavor the next batch of KT that's brewing.
Man, is this fun or what! [/COLOR]
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Kamalam · 05-16-2009, 08:52 PM

It is so fun, Pepperette! Let us know how the fizz factor turns out. That's one aspect of the process we want to improve. For some reason we lose our fizz after bottling and I'm not sure why yet. (Very cute video, btw! I'm a little concerned with their casual handling of the "spores" lol - hope they washed their hands at least! Something tells me they weren't that concerned with "sterile technique." Ha, ha, but they were cute. Nice to see such young kids getting on the kombucha train).

metqa · 05-17-2009, 08:22 AM

Geeky kids, the scoby isn't a spore,Duh! It's a cellulose pad! Yay!

That was so cute, they were having a Kombucha Making Party. I wash my hands and nails with a nail brush and rinse with water and white vinegar when I mess around with my scoby and tea and stuff. If I have any scrapes it really stings, so I know I'm sterile before handing. but I also don't handle the scoby unless I'm getting one to ship out.

Faia, Are you nuts, you really wanna eat that thing. It'd probably block you up with so much fiber!!!!

Asian noodles indeed!

Faia · 05-17-2009, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by metqa

Faia, Are you nuts, you really wanna eat that thing. It'd probably block you up with so much fiber!!!!

Asian noodles indeed!

I'd have to wait until we reach the point of throwing one out before any experimentation. If it doesn't work I can pretend the idea never existed and I do have friends with dogs so...

And yes, I am nuts.

"Do we need a healer?"
"Nah, he's just an Arch-Villain. We can take him."

(Remember, if he conns purple to you, you're gray to him.)

metqa · 05-17-2009, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faia

"Nah, he's just an Arch-Villain. We can take him."

Get's popcorn to watch the battle . . .

"Slap Him with a Scoby!!!"

pepperette · 05-17-2009, 01:27 PM

[COLOR="Red"]Warning- some bad and/or weird things here...[/COLOR]

YouTube - Kombucha Slap haircut

metqa · 05-17-2009, 01:30 PM

Eat your Vegetables!

Thanks Pepperette. that cheered me up in ways unbeknownst to lesser mankind.

pepperette · 05-17-2009, 01:50 PM

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Just one of the things I found while searching for "educational" kombucha info![/COLOR]
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metqa · 05-17-2009, 02:22 PM

That was VERY educational. I didn't know there were so many ways to slap a man with a scoby. I'm sure the list hasn't been exhausted either. Wonder what we could add?

ETA:

Ha! I see you've added a warning label!!!

BikerAng · 05-18-2009, 08:45 AM

LOL! Scoby slap, that was hilarious!

pepperette · 05-18-2009, 06:40 PM

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Got my flavors today! Bottled Sat. eve.- can I add the flavors tonight? Was going to refrigerate the second ferment Wed. eve. Would adding the flavors now hurt the process?[/COLOR]

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Faia · 05-18-2009, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pepperette

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Got my flavors today! Bottled Sat. eve.- can I add the flavors tonight? Was going to refrigerate the second ferment Wed. eve. Would adding the flavors now hurt the process?[/COLOR]

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From everything I have read, the flavors go in at bottling. If you open them now you will lose what fizz you have managed.

Tomorrow is day 8, the first tasting. Lacking fancy stuff like ph strips or hydrometer we will have to rely on palate alone. ("What do you think?"

"Eliphino..."

)

(In other mostly useless facts, this is my 100th LCF post.)

05-13-2009, 05:14 PM	#424
pepperette Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Raytown, MO. Posts: 1,849 Gallery: pepperette	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I tasted the brew just now and about coughed myself to death- sucked the liquid a bit too vigorously and it went right down the wrong pipe! Other than that, it is still too sweet, but I could tell there is a hint of tartness starting- maybe try again Fri. or Sat.. Got a small piece of ginger root at the store for one flavor, and just ordered some concentrates for the others- got cranberry, blueberry, and pomegranate. Also picked up another jar of pickles so I have another brewing jar or a safe place to store the extra scobies.[/COLOR] . __________________ *"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny" Thomas Jefferson* Fear the bread, NOT the butter... IBKKF 898 - International Brotherhood of Kombucha and Kefir Fermenters (borrowed from porcupine73)

05-16-2009, 08:52 PM	#440
Kamalam Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Central Coast, California Posts: 282 Gallery: Kamalam WOE: Moving toward a plant based diet Start Date: February 2007	It is so fun, Pepperette! Let us know how the fizz factor turns out. That's one aspect of the process we want to improve. For some reason we lose our fizz after bottling and I'm not sure why yet. (Very cute video, btw! I'm a little concerned with their casual handling of the "spores" lol - hope they washed their hands at least! Something tells me they weren't that concerned with "sterile technique." Ha, ha, but they were cute. Nice to see such young kids getting on the kombucha train). Last edited by Kamalam; 05-16-2009 at 08:55 PM..

05-17-2009, 08:22 AM	#441
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	Geeky kids, the scoby isn't a spore,Duh! It's a cellulose pad! Yay! That was so cute, they were having a Kombucha Making Party. I wash my hands and nails with a nail brush and rinse with water and white vinegar when I mess around with my scoby and tea and stuff. If I have any scrapes it really stings, so I know I'm sterile before handing. but I also don't handle the scoby unless I'm getting one to ship out. Faia, Are you nuts, you really wanna eat that thing. It'd probably block you up with so much fiber!!!! Asian noodles indeed! __________________ "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." Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett IBKKF 898 Metqa's P4 JUDDD Journal

05-17-2009, 01:30 PM	#445
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	Eat your Vegetables! Thanks Pepperette. that cheered me up in ways unbeknownst to lesser mankind. Last edited by metqa; 05-17-2009 at 01:34 PM..

05-17-2009, 02:22 PM	#447
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	That was VERY educational. I didn't know there were so many ways to slap a man with a scoby. I'm sure the list hasn't been exhausted either. Wonder what we could add? ETA: Ha! I see you've added a warning label!!! Last edited by metqa; 05-17-2009 at 02:25 PM..

05-13-2009, 04:26 PM	#423
Kamalam Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Central Coast, California Posts: 282 Gallery: Kamalam WOE: Moving toward a plant based diet Start Date: February 2007	So that brings me to another question... I know at some point I will have to par down my scoby - I doubt anyone I know would want the remainder. So basically.... I throw some of it away?! I feel like a criminal just thinking about it!

05-13-2009, 07:28 PM	#425
Faia Senior LCF Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Paragon City Posts: 739 Gallery: Faia WOE: LC/Avoid Frankenfoods Start Date: March 2009	pepperette -- You started on May 4th?

05-14-2009, 08:46 AM	#427
BikerAng Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Duvall, WA Posts: 2,592 Gallery: BikerAng Stats: 195/167/155 5'9" WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised Start Date: Feb 2007	my first batch took 2 weeks (maybe a little longer). The second batch took about 10 days or so. Got the third batch brewing now, only on day 3 though. I think it really depends on the warmth of your house that determines the brewing time. Kamalam - I feel bad thinking about tossing out any of my scoby's too! My SIL loves kombucha and I'm going to give her some scoby's to start brewing her own. I'm going to try to find people that want scoby's so I don't feel guilty :GASP: throwing them away! I may also compost some if I have more than I can find homes for.

05-14-2009, 09:05 AM	#428
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	I've heard that chickens and dogs like to chew on them.

05-14-2009, 09:50 AM	#429
BikerAng Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Duvall, WA Posts: 2,592 Gallery: BikerAng Stats: 195/167/155 5'9" WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised Start Date: Feb 2007	I'll dry some out too then, and give them to my MIL who has a bunch of chickens and dogs! Natural chew toys, cool!

05-14-2009, 11:52 AM	#431
BikerAng Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Duvall, WA Posts: 2,592 Gallery: BikerAng Stats: 195/167/155 5'9" WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised Start Date: Feb 2007	Maybe with the new ones that form because they are so thin? I think they would be VERY chewy though.

05-14-2009, 12:13 PM	#432
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	even the one i dehydrated is still flexible and rubbery I think eating it would not be pleasant. It still smells like itself.

05-14-2009, 06:43 PM	#433
metqa Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Athens, GA Posts: 11,498 Gallery: metqa Stats: 134/134/122 WOE: Indecisive LOL Start Date: November 2003	/wow and the vinegeryness of it would be a great toner!

05-15-2009, 06:00 AM	#434
LaurieRobo Senior LCF Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Vero Beach, FL Posts: 783 Gallery: LaurieRobo Stats: Maintenance 175/150/less than 150 WOE: Healthy Whole Food! Start Date: March 2002	I have been feeding my extras and huge ones to the compost pile... Something in our yard - deer, coyotes, which animal likes them, cause they are always gone the next morning... I'm going to have healthy wild life!

05-16-2009, 08:13 PM	#439
pepperette Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Raytown, MO. Posts: 1,849 Gallery: pepperette	[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Today was bottling day for my 1st batch of kombucha. I like the plain as I did it. Not too tart, yet not sweet, and very refreshing ! I made two plain, 3 ginger, and had about 8 oz. left that I chilled and drank (the rest went for the new starter). The others I am letting ferment a few more days to get the fizz facter going. Looking at the scobies, there are so many layers, I was amazed! Now just waiting for the juice concentrates to arrive so I can flavor the next batch of KT that's brewing. Man, is this fun or what! [/COLOR] .

05-17-2009, 01:50 PM	#446
pepperette Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Raytown, MO. Posts: 1,849 Gallery: pepperette	*[COLOR="DarkGreen"]Just one of the things I found while searching for "educational" kombucha info![/COLOR]* .

05-18-2009, 08:45 AM	#448
BikerAng Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Duvall, WA Posts: 2,592 Gallery: BikerAng Stats: 195/167/155 5'9" WOE: Atkins - organic & humanely raised Start Date: Feb 2007	LOL! Scoby slap, that was hilarious!

05-18-2009, 06:40 PM	#449
pepperette Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Raytown, MO. Posts: 1,849 Gallery: pepperette	HELP! [COLOR="DarkGreen"]Got my flavors today! Bottled Sat. eve.- can I add the flavors tonight? Was going to refrigerate the second ferment Wed. eve. Would adding the flavors now hurt the process?[/COLOR] .

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