Re: dehydrating milk grains

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In a message dated 9/24/06 4:37:25 PM, marilynjarz@... writes:

I want to dehydrate some milk Kefir grains for backup in a food

dehydrator. 

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I did this with Kombucha juice, so thought it would work with milk Kefir.

So I took my trusty little cotton balls, set some of them in milk Kefir for

a few moments, then took them out and set them on paper towels to dry.

After a couple of days they were hard and crunchy. Then I set ONE of

them in fresh milk and dated them. After the third day I remembered

them and checked..the milk was solid so I had to shake it. Added more

milk, and the next day I had the typical "cloud" on top of the clear

plasma. I filled the jar with fresh milk, and tomorrow will strain it like

the others. And I will keep some of the cotton balls for back up, and

plan on redoing them at timed intervals to see how long they keep

out of the freezer, dried.

So there are several ways to save a "back up supply" of our lovely,

strong milk grains. Thanks, Marilyn, for your strong growing grains.

Pat in CA

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In a message dated 9/24/06 5:42:23 PM, threejsmom31@... writes:

Wonder if it

would work for yogurt too, like get 200 starts from one commercial

container of yogurt.

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Interesting..I think I'll add yogurt to my shopping list and just try it.

I'll let you know what happens.

Pat

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Put in a thermometer and check what kind of temps you have. I'd say 95

degrees is pushing it. You don't want to cook em. Dry them until they

are hard as a rock. Two days about.

MarilynOn 9/24/06, threejsmom31 <threejsmom31@...> wrote:

I want to dehydrate some milk kefir grains for backup in a fooddehydrator. Mine doesn't have a temp dial so is this advisable? Howlong should I cook 'em?Thanks for any info,3jsmom31

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Hi Pat,On 9/24/06, BSPMerced@... <BSPMerced@...> wrote:

In a message dated 9/24/06 4:37:25 PM, marilynjarz@... writes:

So I took my trusty little cotton balls, set some of them in milk Kefir for

a few moments, then took them out and set them on paper towels to dry.

After a couple of days they were hard and crunchy. <snip>

So there are several ways to save a " back up supply " of our lovely,

strong milk grains. Thanks, Marilyn, for your strong growing grains.

Pat in CA

If you would dry real kefir grains, instead of the kefir, you would

have a real back up. If anything happened to your kefir grains, your

little cotton balls soaked in kefir and dried would make kefir of sorts

for a while, but wouldn't give you kefir grains.

Marilyn

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But I can see a using them for reforestation of grains that are not

quite right. Hmmm. Wonder if it would work for a quick fix for

grains not producing good kefir . Neat idea Pat. Wonder if it

would work for yogurt too, like get 200 starts from one commercial

container of yogurt. The gears are turning now. I guess if the

dehydrator temps are too high for grains, I can set them on top

outside so will have gentle heat. I want to dry pears next.

3jsmom31