Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 The SCOBY has many uses. You can cut it up and dry it for chews for your dog. They benefit from KT too. You can put it in your compost pile. The plants love it! Also you can eat it straight, though it is a little fibrous and chewy. These are just a few suggestions that people here over the years have used their SCOBY for. Hope this helps, Myrna > > I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime > it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't > know what to do with it besides make the face cream. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 The SCOBY has many uses. You can cut it up and dry it for chews for your dog. They benefit from KT too. You can put it in your compost pile. The plants love it! Also you can eat it straight, though it is a little fibrous and chewy. These are just a few suggestions that people here over the years have used their SCOBY for. Hope this helps, Myrna > > I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime > it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't > know what to do with it besides make the face cream. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 The SCOBY has many uses. You can cut it up and dry it for chews for your dog. They benefit from KT too. You can put it in your compost pile. The plants love it! Also you can eat it straight, though it is a little fibrous and chewy. These are just a few suggestions that people here over the years have used their SCOBY for. Hope this helps, Myrna > > I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime > it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't > know what to do with it besides make the face cream. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 It can be eaten, apparently in some culture they cut up pieces of it into salads. I have eaten it. I didn't find it to be fibrous at all. I found it to be chewy and sour, like an old-fashioned pickle found in barrels, not the refrigerator kind. Domestic animals of all kinds exhibit fondness for SCOBYs and they are very good for them. Only cats won't eat them. Some dogs will not. But goats, pigs, horses, cows have all been reported to eat them. I have 2 pet pigs and one of them stopped having her longstanding postnasal drip/allergy symptoms after she started eating them. Also, if you don't have backups of your SCOBY you should have a jar that you put extras in. Just float them in some KT and occasionally refresh the jar. Then you'll have some around to give people, and if anything ever happens to your brewing vessels (mold or some other disaster), you'll have backups. Everyone should have backups. --V ~~~ There is no way to peace; peace is the way ~~~~ --A.J. Muste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 It can be eaten, apparently in some culture they cut up pieces of it into salads. I have eaten it. I didn't find it to be fibrous at all. I found it to be chewy and sour, like an old-fashioned pickle found in barrels, not the refrigerator kind. Domestic animals of all kinds exhibit fondness for SCOBYs and they are very good for them. Only cats won't eat them. Some dogs will not. But goats, pigs, horses, cows have all been reported to eat them. I have 2 pet pigs and one of them stopped having her longstanding postnasal drip/allergy symptoms after she started eating them. Also, if you don't have backups of your SCOBY you should have a jar that you put extras in. Just float them in some KT and occasionally refresh the jar. Then you'll have some around to give people, and if anything ever happens to your brewing vessels (mold or some other disaster), you'll have backups. Everyone should have backups. --V ~~~ There is no way to peace; peace is the way ~~~~ --A.J. Muste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 A MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO ALL THE KT FANS AROUND THE WORLD, FROM ANNIE Re: Can we eat the scoby? feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 A MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO ALL THE KT FANS AROUND THE WORLD, FROM ANNIE Re: Can we eat the scoby? feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 A MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO ALL THE KT FANS AROUND THE WORLD, FROM ANNIE Re: Can we eat the scoby? feed it to your plants or your neighbors plants.. wrote: I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar everytime it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just don't know what to do with it besides make the face cream. www.vmdirect.com/paulak www.frumples.com www.pkfrumple.unfranchise.com 1- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 Hi , The SCOBY will stay happy and healthy if you add a little fresh brewed tea to them about every other week or every week depending on your preference. Also, as the jar fills up, you can pour a little off and use it for your starter tea because after awhile you have a wonderful aged starter. Meryy Christmas and God Bless, Myrna > > > > > I feel bad about the " mushroom " away, but I can't buy a jar > everytime > > > it reproduces! I have 2 sitting on a plate right now and I just > don't > > > know what to do with it besides make the face cream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 25, 2006 Report Share Posted December 25, 2006 >I read on some website that keeping them together starves them or >something along those lines.. Another example of claims about KT that really don't stand up to scrutiny. > My mom told me to freeze it so I put it on a glass plate and put >saran wrap over it and stuck it in the freezer. I guess I will get >one more big jar and see if I can store the extras in it! Freezing is problematic because although it can be done successfully, if the conditions under which is was frozen aren't just right, it can injure the culture. At least, that has been the general instruction here. In any case, leaving them out in a jar on the counter has no risks attached, whereas refrig or freezing does. The only thing to be aware of is adding some KT to the jar to keep them happy. Some people advise adding fresh sweetened tea to the jars. I did that one time and wound up with mold, because I added too much fresh tea and the KT in the jar was very low-- I overcame the correct acidity and mold set in. So, do be careful about how much sweetened tea you add at any one time. I've had very good luck only adding fermented KT (that's what I was instructed to do), but the oldest SCOBYs do tend to start disintegrating. So I've come to the conclusion to start adding a little sweet tea on occasion, along with periodic fermented KT. --V ~~~ There is no way to peace; peace is the way ~~~~ --A.J. Muste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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