Bacteria: a kefir special
June 6th, 2010Babysitting a jar of jelly brain like structures called Kefir is more interesting than you might imagine.
They bubble away in a corner, after a couple of days they produce a liquid that can be used to ferment ginger juice into ginger beer. Or lemon juice into lemonade. Hurrah! well – the first lot went pink and tasted a little sour – the second lot was so spicy it made me sneeze… Hopefully this time I will get it right. The bacteria and yeast combo are quite addictive – I check them every morning and evening and remain mesmerized by their monotonous reproduction.
As they are apparently quite hard to kill – we’ll see about that:)
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