so - what do your kefir grains look like? For awhile I was getting a hard little nodule that would grow and double in size about every 4 days. But I drank it by mistake! (grabbed the jar waiting to be strained by mistake) LOL. And now I have no hard nodule but tons of small flecking globs. Can I share the globs with others who want to kefirize or do I need to wait for a nodule?
How are you shipping kefir to others? Putting in 'grains' or 'flecking globs' or a tablespoon of kefir?
Cathy who is fond of kefir but not quite a nut yet.
Heather, one of us will have kefir grains (aka starter) to share soon enough - I'll check back with you when I catch up with my list.
meanwhile, I bought 5lbs of strawberries and sliced them and then boiled them with a simple sugar inversion (1 cup water to 1 cup sugar, used 2 cups of each total to the 5 lbs strawberries). When it got nice and syrupy I blended it into a puree. Now every morning I pour some strawberry syrup into a glass of kefir and the whole family while happily chug it down! So yummy.
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Heather can have my spot in line cuz I got me some kefir grains today. WOOHOO. I added raw milk and covered with a hemp cloth and they are on my counter. Any tips?? What do I do now???
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I get to taste my first glass of kefir made with grains tomorrow morning. I can barely wait!
Curious how long you all let your set. Again I used raw milk and started yesterday right about 11:30 so it has been right about 36 hours and I am gonna strain, make new and go to bed.
I let mine sit fo about 18-24 hours depending on the temp in the house. I like mine sour! My friends like theirs mild - 8-12 hours. We are using pasturized milk.
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I let mine sit fo about 18-24 hours depending on the temp in the house. I like mine sour! My friends like theirs mild - 8-12 hours. We are using pasturized milk.
When I ship the grains, I rinse with fresh milk and put some in the bag with the grains.
I like mine slightly sour but not to the point of where the whey has seperated.. then I don't like to drink it plain, I put it in a smoothie. That is how my children drink it. KJ, it takes mine anywhere from 12-18 hours (cow's milk). Raw goats milk is taking longer... Temp. determines time as well for me.
Hope this helps. Off to see if my raw goat's milk kefir is ready to be strained!!! Oh and How funny about drinking the grains!!! I have a plastic cap on the unstrained and plastic wrap with the metal screw lid on the ready-to-go so my son (the smoothie King) knows which to use!!
Tracey, what do your grains look like? I really had something that looked like a grain (singlular) that would grow and double till I drank it.
Now I have a ton of blobby flecks. Still cultures up the same, no grain.
What do you get?
Mine are a big blob and when it gets really big, I just pinch off half. I have never had babies from mine (that I know of) but read that babies do grow. Maybe I don't have a fine enough strainer and I am drinking the those. Hmm, I have never seen the blobby flecks, but obviously you have some culture so perhaps the flecks are babies and they will grow in time.
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