Probiotic foods like kombucha

Yvonne Smith

Yvonne Smith

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I have decided to make kombucha again. It has been a year or more since I last made it. It seems like my body craves something for a while and then i just stop wanting it . Kombucha didn’t even taste good to me anymore.
The other day, I had a bottle of store bought kombucha, and now it seemed to be something I wanted more of, so I ordered another SCOBY, and it is supposed to be here today, and then I am going to start a batch of kombucha.

We have lots of strawberries right now, and after that will be blueberries and raspberries, so I will have plenty of fruit to flavor it with once it has cultured, and kombucha makes a great summertime drink over lots of ice.
It is easy to make , just sweet tea and ad the SCOBY ( a pancake looking thing made as the kombucha cultures) and let it sit and do its magic for a week or two.
Here are some of the benefits of kombucha.

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Those are both probiotics, @Steve North ; but we already have threads for fermenting sauerkraut and also for culturing kefir and yogurt. We didn’t have any other threads for making kombucha; so I started this one.
 
Jacqueline Lindt said:
I luv kombucha ..... Only had store bought !

Homemade must be delicious ....hope i can try homemade one day !

Looks complicated though ☺️
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Actually, it is not complicated, @Jacqueline Lindt . I never do complicated foods, so if it does not look simple, I don’t make it. Basically you brew a large pot of tea, and add sugar.
You do need a SCOBY, which is about $10 on Amazon or Walmart, and when the tea is cool, you put in the SCOBY and the brew starter that comes with it, and then just let it sit for a week or so until it turned into kombucha.
The longer it cultures, the more sour it gets, so after a week, you start tasting it and drink it when it reaches the stage that you like the taste.

Then you make another batch of sweet tea, and add it to the jar with the leftover kombucha *which becomes the starter for the next batch. So, once yo have the first starter batch made, you just keep adding the tea and let the kombucha ferment itself.
You can take the kombucha and put it in bottles and add flavors, like fruit or juice, let that sit for a few days, and then you have flavored and carbonated kombucha.
There are lots of videos on YouTube explains how to make the kombucha so you can watch it being done, step by step.
 
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