Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Re: [fast5] Ultra-Pasteurized milk - Kefir

You might want to join the microbialfermentation group ... it's all
about fermenting and has some ultra-knowledgeable people on it.

But to answer the question, pastuerized milk doesn't hurt the grains
at all. Shoot, boiled milk is ok too. Raw milk is iffy: healthy grains
can overcome the natural bacteria, but sometimes they just 'adopt'
them and the kefir changes taste/texture.

Always get organic milk though. My grains didn't do well at all on
non-organic ... I'm assuming there are enough antibiotics left in the
milk to give the kefir bacteria a hard time.


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:26 PM, espressodaily<no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> My wife bought me some organic milk, and I just started a new brew with it. I noticed that it's ultra-pastuerized.
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> Will my grains suffer?
> Any danger of seeing what happens?
> Do I need to swap them out tomorrow (or sooner?)
> Assuming I let it go and make a brew, will the resulting kefir have reduced pro biotic benefits?
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Heather Twist
http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/


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