I WANT TO CULTURE ALTERNATIVE KEFIR PROBIOTIC GOODIES E.G., KEFIRKRAUT, non-dairy MILK KEFIR AND KEFIR DERBA MEDICA ETC. WHAT TIPS CAN YOU SHARE?
First and foremost, never switch all your traditional milk-based kefir grains to a non-dairy milk media. One can not guarantee if kefir grains will retain their growth-factor, after switching from a NATIVE MEDIA [which is dairy milk] to an alternative media. Use only a portion of milk-based grains for culturing any alternative media to prepare products such as Kefirkraut, non-dairy milk kefir such as soy, seed and nut milk or coconut milk kefir. This includes culturing a water-based media for preparing a variety of water-kefirs [Kefir d’acqua or Kefir d’erba media]. Otherwise if ever deciding to produce a dairy-milk kefir later on down the track, you may find that your original milk-based grains [traditional kefir grains of Caucasus] may have become non propagable [will not grow]. I recommend to switch traditional dairy-milk kefir-grains to a different media, only when one has excess kefir grains, which have been cultured and propagated in dairy-milk [or one has a back up source to res
First and foremost, never switch all your traditional milk kefir-grains to a non-dairy milk media. One can not guarantee if kefir grains will retain their growth-factor, after switching from a NATIVE MEDIA [which is dairy milk] to an alternative media. Use only a portion of milk grains for culturing any alternative media to prepare products such as Kefirkraut, non-dairy milk kefir such as soy, seed and nut milk or coconut milk kefir. This includes culturing a water-based media for preparing a variety of water-kefir [Kefir d’acqua or Kefir d’erba media]. Otherwise if ever deciding to produce a dairy-milk kefir later on down the track, you may find that your original milk grains [traditional kefir grains of Caucasus] may have become non propagable [will not grow]. I recommend to switch traditional milk kefir-grains to a different media, only when one has excess kefir grains, which have been cultured and propagated in dairy-milk [or one has a back up source to resort to in case of problem
First and foremost, never switch all your traditional milk kefir-grains to a non-dairy milk media. One can not guarantee if kefir grains will retain their growth-factor, after switching from a NATIVE MEDIA [which is dairy milk] to an alternative media. Use only a portion of milk grains for culturing any alternative media to prepare products such as Kefirkraut, non-dairy milk kefir such as soy, seed and nut milk or coconut milk kefir. This includes culturing a water-based media for preparing a variety of water-kefir [Kefir d’acqua or Kefir d’erba media]. Otherwise if ever deciding to produce a dairy-milk kefir later on down the track, you may find that your original milk grains [traditional kefir grains of Caucasus] may have become non propagable [will not grow]. I recommend to switch traditional milk kefir-grains to a different media, only when one has excess kefir grains, which have been cultured and propagated in dairy-milk [or one has a back up source to resort to in case of problem
Related Questions
- I WANT TO CULTURE ALTERNATIVE KEFIR PROBIOTIC GOODIES E.G., KEFIRKRAUT, non-dairy MILK KEFIR AND KEFIR DERBA MEDICA ETC. WHAT TIPS CAN YOU SHARE?
- How long do milk kefir grains last? How long does the powdered Kefir Starter Culture last?
- Are milk kefir grains reusable? Is the powdered Kefir Starter Culture reusable?
