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Elisabeth's avatar

You make it look so easy I'm going to give it a try. To make and eat! Thanks for sharing.

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Caroline Gilmartin's avatar

So pleased to hear that! I do more regular sessions on Instagram if that's of interest

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Hilary HISCOX's avatar

Keeping it real as ever, Caroline!

Great!

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Caroline Gilmartin's avatar

I cant do it any other way 😂

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Hilary HISCOX's avatar

Good - that’s what we like and can relate to 😊

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Lucy Capon's avatar

Thank you Caroline! A question….. I read a hack somewhere to add milk to a quantity of existing shop-bought kefir to make more kefir. I have done this on numerous occasions and it seems to work, however, no grains ever emerge and latterly the end product hasn’t been as effective. I have been using a glass milk bottle to mix the two at a ratio of approximately 1/5 kefir to 4/5 milk and fermenting for approx. 12-24hrs depending on the ambient temperature. Can I have your thoughts on the matter, please?

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Caroline Gilmartin's avatar

Hi Lucy, Unfortunately you won't ever grow kefir grains this way. In fact no one has ever created kefir grains, not even in a research lab. All grains are descendants of those that originally arose in goat skin bags in the Caucasus mountains 2000 years ago. This to me demonstrates just how incredible they are and how much mystery they hold. Besides shop kefir doesn't contain the correct microbes to make the kefiran polysaccharide that holds the microbes and forms the grains. Shop kefir contains specifically chosen microbes similar to, or perhaps originally derived from kefir grains that are added separately as far as I know and are also selected according to their growth kinetics so they all grow at the same speed in the vats. In a home environment you can only usually do it a few times before the microbes get diluted. My advice? Get some grains! Hope this helps

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Lucy Capon's avatar

Thank you so much! Sage advice! I’ll get some grains from your website and hope that my kefir doesn’t go fizzy like the previous times I have tried - albeit before lockdown! Love your posts btw ❤️

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Caroline Gilmartin's avatar

Also we can sort out fizzy kefir !

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Markas Gilmartin's avatar

Coolio

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