Guest guest Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 I brewed kombucha for 2 years. I stopped when I was diagnosed with diabetes because all that carbohydrate is not good for diabetics (the acetic acid is a carbohydrate). I believe the lady I used to get supplies from is dead. She was in poor health when I bought from her & her website is down. Alobar - " perynoid " <m.posey Saturday, August 02, 2003 1:03 PM Re: Kombucha tea > , " Ed > Jones " <ejones310@c...> wrote: > > Anyone know anything about Kombucha tea? > > Yeah, I played around with it for a while. It's basically a type of > fungus that grows on sugar and tea, and it's byproduct > resembles something between apple cider and vinegar. > Supposed to contain nutrients that are hard to come by > otherwise. Everything has to be very clean and just so or you'll > kills the shroom or mold will ruin the batch. > > You need a piece of it to get started, so if your only ongoing batch > goes bad you need to get another starter :o/ I think you can > freeze the shroom without killing it, not sure how successful that > is, what i read after I lost my last batch :o/ So when you've > produced more baby shrooms than you need you might freeze > the extras instead of just tossing them so if it all goes bad you'll > have a way of starting over. > > I think the quality of the shroom can deterioate from batch to > batch if you don't do it right. You want to always use a the > youngest part of the shroom to start the next batch. > > When i first started the pictures of the starters i ordered showed > tiny little pancakes ( " babies " ) growing on the surface of a much > bigger shroom. When my starter grew more little babies grew on > it's surface and would easily lift off, just like the supplier said, but > then later I didn't do it right and the following shrooms were just > big, fat layered cakes with the young and old part grown into > each other. I think the quality of the tea was better in that original > batch and the babies i grew in the first batch sure looked > healthyer than any I grew after. I never been able to find that > original source again ( > > imho it's a lot of trouble for what you seem to get out of it. Kinda > fun to do tho. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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