Geekery
I am taking an online class about food storage and preservation. A fellow student sent me something...
This mysterious substance arrived from Alaska in these awesome tubes. Eric's response: How come you didn't get arrested for this? They hissed as I opened on vial and started burbling over. I hucked one in a bowl to more closely examine.
And a close up.
No, it's not cheese curds, it's kefir grains! Kefir originated in the way back when in the Caucaus Mountains, as a way to effectively store milk without those wondrous boxes we call fridges. It creates a yogurty kind of beverage. It smells a lot like a sourdough starter. I think that once I get the hang of cultivating the stuff, there will be bread experiments. The grains themselves are essentially a microbial colony of lactobacilli (I think) and some yeasts, and some other stuff that is not particularly well-researched, given that the people generally interested in this stuff are woo-meisters ( this site http://users.chariot.net.au/%7Edna/Makekefir.html#Storing reminds me a lot of the Dr. Bronners soap dude, whose crazy can also be checked out at http://www.drbronner.com/ He makes good soap AND good crazy). I look forward to rational investigation of this kefir.
It's burbling every so often as I watch it. :D
This mysterious substance arrived from Alaska in these awesome tubes. Eric's response: How come you didn't get arrested for this? They hissed as I opened on vial and started burbling over. I hucked one in a bowl to more closely examine.
And a close up.
No, it's not cheese curds, it's kefir grains! Kefir originated in the way back when in the Caucaus Mountains, as a way to effectively store milk without those wondrous boxes we call fridges. It creates a yogurty kind of beverage. It smells a lot like a sourdough starter. I think that once I get the hang of cultivating the stuff, there will be bread experiments. The grains themselves are essentially a microbial colony of lactobacilli (I think) and some yeasts, and some other stuff that is not particularly well-researched, given that the people generally interested in this stuff are woo-meisters ( this site http://users.chariot.net.au/%7Edna/Makekefir.html#Storing reminds me a lot of the Dr. Bronners soap dude, whose crazy can also be checked out at http://www.drbronner.com/ He makes good soap AND good crazy). I look forward to rational investigation of this kefir.
It's burbling every so often as I watch it. :D