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Cooking & Baking

mitch96

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8. I read it varies with the season...Quick ferment in the summer with the heat and long ferment in the cold

Reply to Easterncedar (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:38 PM

Jan 2025

might change the taste and effervescence.
Do you see positive benefits from keifer? I'm looking at fermented foods for its probiotic benefits..
I recently had an infected tooth removed (yeah, I got stupid and did not take care of it sooner) and the dentist put me on antibiotics.. This stuff is like a shot gun and kills ALL the bugs, not just the bad ones.
I want to keep the good bugs in my gut happy..
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Anybody else drink Kefir? I'm starting my journey down the fermented foods trail. Store bought is fine.....but [View all] mitch96 Jan 2025 OP

I eat a lot of sauerkraut. Use to make it but now multigraincracker Jan 2025 #1

I'm fortunate that a small store sells Kimchi, Sauerkraut and kombucha at my local weekend green market mitch96 Jan 2025 #2

This week I tried some goat milk yogurt. multigraincracker Jan 2025 #5

I've made my own yogurt for 12 years now. I like kefir but I don't want to have to purchase cultures... hlthe2b Jan 2025 #3

The milk Keifer grains are only about $15 and if you take care of them it's a one time purchase. The mulitply mitch96 Jan 2025 #6

I do yogurt, kimchi, kraut, and kombucha, haven't tried kefir.... Think. Again. Jan 2025 #4

I make it all the time. It's so delicious and very easy! Easterncedar Jan 2025 #7

I read it varies with the season...Quick ferment in the summer with the heat and long ferment in the cold mitch96 Jan 2025 #8

It gives me a sense of wellbeing and energy Easterncedar Jan 2025 #9