Water Kefir Grains, Dairy free, Gluten Free Probiotic!
This is Dairy Milk Kefir being "Rejuvinated"
Ok, So update first- Non Dairy MILK kefir- i dunno if it works but I had ZERO luck with it despite being in dairy 80% of the time. So I threw them out when they turned the size of sand. It took a while for me to give up! haha. BUT with water kefir? Oh BOY! I cannot, simply, CANNOT keep up with this stuff! More in another post.
Somehow I bumped onto these guys. They look like ribbons or cauliflower andcan (or can't!) be trained to culture dairy free milk but do need to be reguvinated in dairy milk every once in a time, or else they can whittle away. They create a drinkable yogurt (smoothie like consistency).
Coconut milk is said to be one of the best dairy free options to work with kefir. (Though i personally hate the taste of fermented or cultured coconut, ew)
What's more cool is that it has 30+ different strains of bacteria and yeasts, and it takes merely a day to culture a glass (depending on how many grains you have)
Also, once you culture for 1-2 days you can strain the liquid in a fine mesh bag for a day and then have a wonderful soft cheese that you can roll into balls and place in a jar of oil (no need for refridgeration if you don't want to). (How much i looked forward to this, but had no luck at all)
Lovely, fast, healthy, probiotic cheese and milk every day, and it also can eat off the lactose, making dairy milk drinkable once again.
I have read though that once the grains are placed in a dairy free solution they will STOP PROPAGATING, so it's probably best to run a dairy one, to keep it growing, and a non dairy one that will culture your batch, but not recoup their numbers, ever.
It does produce a small amount of alcohol, more so in dairy free solutions. A mix of 50% dairy works well. Also you can add some fruit juice to the non dairy mix to give them something to eat, as they don't favour dairy free milks.
I can't wait to try this once I rejuvinate them from their journey and grow a bit more. This should save me money.
Somehow I bumped onto these guys. They look like ribbons or cauliflower and
Coconut milk is said to be one of the best dairy free options to work with kefir. (Though i personally hate the taste of fermented or cultured coconut, ew)
What's more cool is that it has 30+ different strains of bacteria and yeasts, and it takes merely a day to culture a glass (depending on how many grains you have)
Also, once you culture for 1-2 days you can strain the liquid in a fine mesh bag for a day and then have a wonderful soft cheese that you can roll into balls and place in a jar of oil (no need for refridgeration if you don't want to). (How much i looked forward to this, but had no luck at all)
Lovely, fast, healthy, probiotic cheese and milk every day, and it also can eat off the lactose, making dairy milk drinkable once again.
I have read though that once the grains are placed in a dairy free solution they will STOP PROPAGATING, so it's probably best to run a dairy one, to keep it growing, and a non dairy one that will culture your batch, but not recoup their numbers, ever.
It does produce a small amount of alcohol, more so in dairy free solutions. A mix of 50% dairy works well. Also you can add some fruit juice to the non dairy mix to give them something to eat, as they don't favour dairy free milks.
I can't wait to try this once I rejuvinate them from their journey and grow a bit more. This should save me money.
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