What are you fermenting today?

[Dace]

Okie, pull out a couple spoonfuls and give it a taste!!

 

[freemotion]

Strain it through a wire tea strainer to get the goobies out!

 

[Beekissed]

Just had to tell you all...when I split off my vinegar the other day I also split the mother. It was pretty neat! Just a gelatinous blob. I'm just going to keep my two mothers going and going like one would do sourdough bread.

I may like a scary story from time to time but that just sounds too creepy.

ok, my kombacha has been in the jar since Christmas and I just can't bring myself to do anything with it. It's got all this floaty stuff and slimy stuff.
I'll pick up the jar, look at it and make a face and sit it back down I'm skeered!!!

When I find something like that it usually has a 1990 expiration date on it - I just bag and bury it, life is too short when vinegar is a dollar a gallon.

You can find unpastuerized vinegar for a dollar a gallon!!!!!????

Pray tell...where????

 

[Wifezilla]

No kidding! Apple cider vinegar is over $3/gallon

 

[Beekissed]

Unpastuerized is almost $18 per gal. here.

 

[xpc]

Sorry, I was looking at distilled white vinegar for $1.38 a gallon at the save.a.lot, use it mostly to clean my coffee pot.

 

[Beekissed]

Almost had me goin' there....thinking I could have saved myself the trouble of going all organic, juicing all those apples, waiting impatiently, buying a mother vinegar for $18 and all that jazz......

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Strain it through a wire tea strainer to get the goobies out!

Goobies? Is that another technical term?

ok, my kombacha has been in the jar since Christmas and I just can't bring myself to do anything with it. It's got all this floaty stuff and slimy stuff.

I'll pick up the jar, look at it and make a face and sit it back down

I'm skeered!!!

This is why I always make my friends taste it first, BEFORE they look at it. It's rather unsettling.

That's why I named mine, too. Makes it less of a threat. "Oh Shaggy, you are looking especially scruffy today!"

Strain it & try it! It may be a little sour though, if it's been going since you got it. Mix it with some iced tea or fruit juice

 

[Wifezilla]

Goobies? Is that another technical term?

Why yes. It is in my copy of the official Sufficient Self glossary. Isn't it in yours?

Goobies: noun
Small bits of unidentifiable matter floating in liquid. While non-toxic, they are unattractive. Straining through a thing-a-ma-bob is the recommended way to eliminate goobies.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I didn't get one. Did I miss a step in the registration process?