RAW MILK NECESSARY FOR KEFIR?

[Guest guest]

" Hi. I'd like to order some grains. My concern is that I do not currently have

access to raw goats milk at this time, though it is my preference. What else

could I make kefir with? Can I use almond milk that I make from home? "

We can get goat's milk in supermarkets here, tho it is

horrendously expensive, more than 4 times the price of regular cow's milk. Plus

it is not organic.

I would use organic cow's milk if I could get it - its

wise to always keep kefir cultures in organic milk, when they are not actively

at work fermenting. Its great to be able to ferment with it if you can afford it

because the kefir produced is far superior, plus it is good for the kefir

cultures to work organic milk.

I would not kefirise almond milk as an exclusive source of kefir.

I would keep a small separate stash of kefir cultures, to kefirise the almond

milk, in case it kills the cultures. Here we use the Scandinavian

practice of culturing milk, so that 50% of our breakfast cereal milk is cultured

(anti gut cancer). However we don't use kefir to do it, we use piima,

buttermilk culture (lactobacilus staphococcus), villi, fil molke,

CaspianMatsoni Baku, etc. We ferment this overnight, in a yogurt incubator.

Maybe you kefirise almond milk to have on cereal in the morning - so that you

get extra kefir into your gut?

best, Lizzie in Australia

[Guest guest]

>>>> its wise to always keep kefir cultures in organic milk, when they are not

actively at work fermenting.<<<<

If they're kept in milk, how can kefir cultures not be actively at work

fermenting?

Seshat