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How to brew kombucha for beginner guide - Herbal Remedies How to brew Add 1L of boiling water, 2 tea bags of black/green tea and 100g of sugar (water to sugar ratio of 10:1 and 1 tea bag for 500ml, adjust according to the size of your brewing bottle). Stir till all the sugar are dissolved and let it simmer and cool down to room temperature. Pour the cooled down mixture into a glass bottle (don’t use plastic bottles). Add in the scoby together with its solution from packet into the mixture. Leave it at a dark and cool place for about 10 days for fermentation to occur before harvesting. Brewing can last up to 30 days but the longer the brewing, the higher the acidity, thus more sour tasting. Brew depending on your taste likings. How to harvest and maintain Pour out the brewed solution into a storage glass bottle and store it in the refrigerator. Keep the scoby and around 250ml of fermented in the brewing glass bottle. Add in new mixture of water, sugar and black/green tea (amount as sta

Cacao & cocoa This blog post is all about cacao and cocoa. Process This list shows you how raw cacao beans is processed into the final cacao powder. Cacao beans: Cacao beans is the raw fermented seed of cacao fruits. Cacao nibs: Cacao beans is dehulled and chopped into cacao nibs. Cacao liquor / chocolate bar: Cacao nibs is grinded into chocolate bar. Cacao butter: Cacao liquor is then pressed into cacao butter and cacao cake. Cacao powder: Cacao cake is then grounded into cacao powder. Videos This video shows how cacao powder is made. Discussion Feel free to leave a comment below, share with us your opinion and experience, or ask a question if you have any doubt regarding cacao and cocoa. Thanks for reading.

Yeast extract This blog post is all about yeast extract. Yeast extract is derived naturally from yeast, through fermentation, cell wall separation in centrifugation, concentrated and dehydrated to produce dried yeast extract powder. Yeast extract is a seasoning used in many dishes and has a tasty umami taste. Lots of processed products contain yeast extract in the ingredient labeling. Videos This video explains what yeast extract is and how yeast extract is made and produced. Discussion Feel free to leave a comment below, share with us your opinion and experience, or ask a question if you have any doubt regarding yeast extract. Thanks for reading.

List of sugar, sugary food, honey, syrup, fruits & juices for kombucha (SCOBY) & water kefir grain fermentation Kombucha (SCOBY) and water kefir grains need sugar (glucose and fructose). The yeast will break down sugar (sucrose) into smaller components glucose and fructose though the secretion of invertase enzyme. Glucose will then be broken down into pyruvate, then acetaldehyde, and then ethanol (alcohol) while releasing carbon dioxide (CO2, which makes the drink fizzy & bubbly). Then the bacteria in the scoby will convert the ethanol (alcohol) into acetic acid (which gives sour and vinegar taste). List of food for kombucha & water kefir grain fermentation Granulated sugar Sugar This is the cheapest conventional sugar. Cane sugar Kombucha (Thrown) Starts with brix 7.4 (Wed 27 Jan): Scoby + organic cane sugar + bit green tea + whole bottle of Evian + filtered water + remaining solution (5/5 maple syrup kombucha) 5 days (Mon 1 Feb): Brix 7.2 9 days (Fri 5 Feb): Brix 6.9

List of food cooking, baking, roasting, dehydrating temperature & duration in oven, dehydrator, microwave, stove, pan, cooling in fridge & freezer Different types of food require different temperature and duration in the oven to achieve and get the best result you want, particularly the perfect crunchy and crispy texture. This list is my own real actual test experience on various temperature and duration to get the desire result. Notes (generally) Current cooking / recipe / TRYING To be done recipes Food usually cooked at and above 60℃. Sterilization 130℃ for 20 minutes: from Google 160℃ for 15 minutes: from Google Jelly: Including gelatin, agar and grass jelly after frozen and defrost will get mini jelly grain texture and some melted liquid. Overall jelly shape still remains. 160℃: (2/5) Food will get burnt at this temperature. Can be used to cook less than 20s when almost done or during initial cooking. 140℃: (5/5, best) Safest and highest temperature to cook meat, perfectly

Kombucha SCOBY VS water kefir grain - Differences You might be wondering what are the differences between scoby and water kefir grain, and here is the list of differences between them. Symbiotic culture SCOBY Bacteria Komagataeibacter xylinus  Formerly known as Gluconacetobacter xylinus Ferments alcohols produced by yeasts into acetic and other acids, contributing to its sourness Lactic acid bacteria Acetic acid bacteria Yeast Zygosaccharomyces Candida Kloeckera / Hanseniaspora Torulaspora Pichia Brettanomyces / Dekkera Saccharomyces Lachancea Saccharomycoides Schizosaccharomyces Kluyveromyces Water kefir grain Common bacteria Lactobacillus Streptococcus Pediococcus Leuconostoc Common yeasts Saccharomyces Candida Kloeckera Tibicos cultures are unique and different for each one of them, but with some common bacteria and yeasts Scoby SCOBY stands for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast Water kefir grain The fermented drink using water kefir grain is known as Tibicos or water kefir i

Homemade keto chocolate bar - Keto dessert recipes You can make your own homemade delicious sugar-free keto chocolate bar as a snack and dessert for your keto diet. This is my own version of keto chocolate bar based on my own preference, and you can customize and experiment with various ingredients to meet your own preference in making keto chocolate bar. Ingredients Cacao mass / cacao powder / sugar-free chocolate bar Lakanto (monk fruit sweetener + erythritol) Stevia Vanilla extract Salt Egg yolk Peanut butter Hazelnut butter, Almond butter, cashew coconut butter, coconut butter Nuts Hazelnut, cashews, almonds, pistachios, walnuts Notes Experiment and customize the amount of each ingredients needed according to your own preference for keto chocolate bar. Step-by-step tutorial in making homemade keto chocolate bar Put in melted cacao mass into a mixing container. Put in Lakanto and stevia.. Put in some vanilla extract. Put in a pinch of salt. Put in egg yolks.. Put in peanut butter.