Re: Another use for grains and other extras

[Guest guest]

I can't wait to have " EXTRAS " !!! There are 7 of us in our house - and my septic

is SCREAMING for some Kefir grains!!!

Anyone know about feeding to Chickens???

Holley

Hopelessly waiting on grains!

>

> The idea below backfired on me!

>

> Marilyn

>

> I see a lot of people talking about what to do with extra grains. Obviously we

should all be willing to share some with at least friends and family, but we all

have only so many friends and family.

>

> I see comments to eat them and/or feed them to pets. Add them to smoothies or

just about any other food you can imagine. Dry them and use them to add crunch

to salads. All great ideas.

>

> But here is one I have never seen before. I have great results with this, and

I hope it will help others.

>

> Everyone has had a backed up drain at one time or another. I don't anymore. I

always 'waste' a little bit of kefir down the drain of the sink every day. I

also put a couple of my extra grains in the toilet at least once a week. If I

have extra whey that I don't have a use for at the moment, it too, goes down the

drain. I make my own cultured butter regularly and always have way more

buttermilk than me and my friends can use. You guessed it, it goes down the

drain as well.

>

> Haven't had backed-up or slow drains since I started making kefir.

>

>

>

> Schmidt - Lacto-Zymologist

> " How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? " ~ Child

>

[Guest guest]

!

Thank you for sharing this! I don't know whether this has permanently fixed our

situation or not, but it has at least made a drastic improvement.

After plunging every day for quite a while, two weeks ago I decided to try out

's idea on what to do with excess kefir grains and other extras. I'm

excited to say I haven't had to stick the plunger in the toilet once these past

two weeks. Hurray! I flush the occasional bit of milk kefir grains and also the

rinse water from my jar and drinking glasses. It works! It works!

My kefir-skeptical husband is not as excited as I am. He seems to find it scary

that something that supposedly fixes our internal plumbing might also fix our

house's plumbing. I sort of see his point. But we use baking soda and vinegar

in food, and also to clean and help drains. Right? I suggested that since

human plumbing had contributed to the blockage in the house, perhaps it wasn't

so strange. He wasn't buying that argument...

In any case, since Marilyn says kefir in the drain backfired on her, I suspect

this idea's success in individual cases depends on the cause of the drain

blockage. We once lived in a house with occasional backup issues--turned out

the pipes outside the house had fallen apart (courtesy of age and tree roots).

Let's face it, sometimes we need a plumber.

Be well, and share those ideas, no matter how strange they might appear!

--andra

>

> The idea below backfired on me!

>

> Marilyn

>

> I see a lot of people talking about what to do with extra grains. Obviously we

should all be willing to share some with at least friends and family, but we all

have only so many friends and family.

>

> I see comments to eat them and/or feed them to pets. Add them to smoothies or

just about any other food you can imagine. Dry them and use them to add crunch

to salads. All great ideas.

>

> But here is one I have never seen before. I have great results with this, and

I hope it will help others.

>

> Everyone has had a backed up drain at one time or another. I don't anymore. I

always 'waste' a little bit of kefir down the drain of the sink every day. I

also put a couple of my extra grains in the toilet at least once a week. If I

have extra whey that I don't have a use for at the moment, it too, goes down the

drain. I make my own cultured butter regularly and always have way more

buttermilk than me and my friends can use. You guessed it, it goes down the

drain as well.

>

> Haven't had backed-up or slow drains since I started making kefir.

>

>

>

> Schmidt - Lacto-Zymologist

> " How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? " ~ Child

>

[Guest guest]

How can you make butter and sourdough bread from kefir??? Thank you,

From: reuse_it_222 <basat222@...>

Subject: Re: Another use for grains and other extras

Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 9:38 PM

 

!

Thank you for sharing this! I don't know whether this has permanently fixed our

situation or not, but it has at least made a drastic improvement.

After plunging every day for quite a while, two weeks ago I decided to try out

's idea on what to do with excess kefir grains and other extras. I'm

excited to say I haven't had to stick the plunger in the toilet once these past

two weeks. Hurray! I flush the occasional bit of milk kefir grains and also the

rinse water from my jar and drinking glasses. It works! It works!

My kefir-skeptical husband is not as excited as I am. He seems to find it scary

that something that supposedly fixes our internal plumbing might also fix our

house's plumbing. I sort of see his point. But we use baking soda and vinegar

in food, and also to clean and help drains. Right? I suggested that since

human plumbing had contributed to the blockage in the house, perhaps it wasn't

so strange. He wasn't buying that argument...

In any case, since Marilyn says kefir in the drain backfired on her, I suspect

this idea's success in individual cases depends on the cause of the drain

blockage. We once lived in a house with occasional backup issues--turned out

the pipes outside the house had fallen apart (courtesy of age and tree roots).

Let's face it, sometimes we need a plumber.

Be well, and share those ideas, no matter how strange they might appear!

--andra

>

> The idea below backfired on me!

>

> Marilyn

>

> I see a lot of people talking about what to do with extra grains. Obviously we

should all be willing to share some with at least friends and family, but we all

have only so many friends and family.

>

> I see comments to eat them and/or feed them to pets. Add them to smoothies or

just about any other food you can imagine. Dry them and use them to add crunch

to salads. All great ideas.

>

> But here is one I have never seen before. I have great results with this, and

I hope it will help others.

>

> Everyone has had a backed up drain at one time or another. I don't anymore. I

always 'waste' a little bit of kefir down the drain of the sink every day. I

also put a couple of my extra grains in the toilet at least once a week. If I

have extra whey that I don't have a use for at the moment, it too, goes down the

drain. I make my own cultured butter regularly and always have way more

buttermilk than me and my friends can use. You guessed it, it goes down the

drain as well.

>

> Haven't had backed-up or slow drains since I started making kefir.

>

>

>

> Schmidt - Lacto-Zymologist

> " How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? " ~ Child

>

[Guest guest]

Marilyn, can you tell me why this backfired on you? I have a cesspool that I

currently add rid x once a month to.I would love to add extra grains also.Thanks

Dawn

>

> >

> > The idea below backfired on me!

> >

> > Marilyn

> >

> > I see a lot of people talking about what to do with extra grains. Obviously

we should all be willing to share some with at least friends and family, but we

all have only so many friends and family.

> >

> > I see comments to eat them and/or feed them to pets. Add them to smoothies

or just about any other food you can imagine. Dry them and use them to add

crunch to salads. All great ideas.

> >

> > But here is one I have never seen before. I have great results with this,

and I hope it will help others.

> >

> > Everyone has had a backed up drain at one time or another. I don't anymore.

I always 'waste' a little bit of kefir down the drain of the sink every day. I

also put a couple of my extra grains in the toilet at least once a week. If I

have extra whey that I don't have a use for at the moment, it too, goes down the

drain. I make my own cultured butter regularly and always have way more

buttermilk than me and my friends can use. You guessed it, it goes down the

drain as well.

> >

> > Haven't had backed-up or slow drains since I started making kefir.

> >

> >

> >

> > Schmidt - Lacto-Zymologist

> > " How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? " ~ Child

> >

>

[Guest guest]

It will work in something like a cesspool or lagoon. But not in a drain that

doesn't have enough pitch to it. My husband had to open the pipes and dig

stuff out of there. Said it was like cottage cheese. I swore I never put

cheese down the drain, but I was rinsing kefir grains and such and it must

have cultured the other stuff getting caught in there. Now I catch all my

rinse water and throw it on the roses. Plus I am faithful to use those

septic tank enzymes monthly in my sink drain...just in case.

Marilyn

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:12 AM, danebreak <izspots@...> wrote:

> Marilyn, can you tell me why this backfired on you? I have a cesspool that

> I currently add rid x once a month to.I would love to add extra grains

> also.Thanks

> Dawn

>