one more thing

[9ah]

i've been making kombucha and natto (well i only make natto once). me and my roommate decided to make a fermentation journal. it's just descriptions of each batch we've made, and things we think have gone wrong or right.

fermentionfound

maybe some of you are interested in this.

making kombucha is easy and fun i totally recommend it.

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[bord_du_rasoir]

Kom buch with the what now?

[poiplepixie]

Kombucha Tea.

[9ah]

it is a fermented tea drink. one starts with black tea (or green or oolong, or other stuff works too, but black works best it likes the caffeine or so i've gathered from what i've read), with lots of sugar. in the fermentation proses a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria eat the sugar and caffeine, and turn it into vinegar mostly. it also gets carbonated, and a bit of alcohol 0.5%-2.0% may also happen.

so it is acidic, but like apple cider vinegar it actually neutralizes the ph of the body. from what i've gathered.

[bord_du_rasoir]

I have on occassion seen stuff floating in tea bottles near the check-out line of Whole Foods. I believe they call that stuff cultured tea because of the bacterial content. I wonder if this is the same thing.

I've never looked into it beyond gabbing at bit at the check-out. If it tastes anything like vinegar, I don't think I can do it. What the hell, man, it seems so gross.

[_kissme_killme_]

I was convinced for a while that kombucha was mushroom tea, since thats what people call it, so I was convinced it was fermented mushrooms. I've tried it before, and it was ok but I had a hard time getting the image of slimy mushrooms out of my head while drinking it. But I read your journal, and googled a bit, and now that I know it's a scoba mother pad thing and not an actual mushroom, it seems much more appealing to me. Is making fermented food kind of like doing a science project?

What does natto taste like? I've seen it before but I always thought it was cheese or something.

[9ah]

it is called that sometimes, and i don't know why. it is a lot like doing a science project!

it's... really hard to explain the flavor. it's main feature is that it is really slimy. it made of soy beans. i really like it but i grew up eating it...

[bord_du_rasoir]

"a scoba mother pad thing"

What the hell is going on?

I don't understand anything.

[9ah]

actually a scoby "mother pad thing"

scoby is an acronym and stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.