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  • MissMaggieElizabeth
    MissMaggieElizabeth Posts: 71 Member
    I made Kombucha for a few years. Was curious to try freezing the scoby. I was being over run by them. So I carefully wrapped it up and froze it. OF course I forgot to mark it. How could I forget what it was. Then one day I took out nice chicken breast for dinner and thawed it. Went to cut it to strips for stirfry. OOPS It was like cutting shoe leather and smelled a bit different than chicken. YES it was the kombucha.

    Some one told me to make a big tub of the kombucha and soak my body in it since I had so much of it. So I put three scobies in an extra watering tank for the horse and added a bunch of water and a few tea bags sugar. Lightly covered it and promptly forgot all about the thing. And THING it became. It grew to the size of the tank and about 75 pounds. And THEN I became afraid of it. I could not lift it out of the tank.IT is slippery slimy. No handles to grab. It was about 10 inches thick. So again I left it hoping it would dry out. BUT IT RAINED and I am talking a down pour refreshing this beast. After the chicken cutting episode I could not bring myself to stick a knife into it. Finally I admitted defeat and asked my hubby to help me tip the tank over and turn this thing out. It was years before he let me live this down.
  • Kitnthecat
    Kitnthecat Posts: 2,076 Member
    LOL!!!
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    MissMaggieElizabeth wrote: »
    I made Kombucha for a few years. Was curious to try freezing the scoby. I was being over run by them. So I carefully wrapped it up and froze it. OF course I forgot to mark it. How could I forget what it was. Then one day I took out nice chicken breast for dinner and thawed it. Went to cut it to strips for stirfry. OOPS It was like cutting shoe leather and smelled a bit different than chicken. YES it was the kombucha.

    Some one told me to make a big tub of the kombucha and soak my body in it since I had so much of it. So I put three scobies in an extra watering tank for the horse and added a bunch of water and a few tea bags sugar. Lightly covered it and promptly forgot all about the thing. And THING it became. It grew to the size of the tank and about 75 pounds. And THEN I became afraid of it. I could not lift it out of the tank.IT is slippery slimy. No handles to grab. It was about 10 inches thick. So again I left it hoping it would dry out. BUT IT RAINED and I am talking a down pour refreshing this beast. After the chicken cutting episode I could not bring myself to stick a knife into it. Finally I admitted defeat and asked my hubby to help me tip the tank over and turn this thing out. It was years before he let me live this down.

    LOL - a little late now, but I've been told you can Jerky it and it is excellent for your health! I'm kind of scared, now. I can kill plants, but science experiments? My thumb is green there... LOL
  • Lillith32
    Lillith32 Posts: 483 Member
    MissMaggieElizabeth wrote: »
    I made Kombucha for a few years. Was curious to try freezing the scoby. I was being over run by them. So I carefully wrapped it up and froze it. OF course I forgot to mark it. How could I forget what it was. Then one day I took out nice chicken breast for dinner and thawed it. Went to cut it to strips for stirfry. OOPS It was like cutting shoe leather and smelled a bit different than chicken. YES it was the kombucha.

    Some one told me to make a big tub of the kombucha and soak my body in it since I had so much of it. So I put three scobies in an extra watering tank for the horse and added a bunch of water and a few tea bags sugar. Lightly covered it and promptly forgot all about the thing. And THING it became. It grew to the size of the tank and about 75 pounds. And THEN I became afraid of it. I could not lift it out of the tank.IT is slippery slimy. No handles to grab. It was about 10 inches thick. So again I left it hoping it would dry out. BUT IT RAINED and I am talking a down pour refreshing this beast. After the chicken cutting episode I could not bring myself to stick a knife into it. Finally I admitted defeat and asked my hubby to help me tip the tank over and turn this thing out. It was years before he let me live this down.

    Omg, I was unreasonably entertained by that. Thank you for that.
  • auntneen
    auntneen Posts: 31 Member
    cindytw wrote: »
    I had brewed my own kombucha for a long time, until I got too busy to manage it and then my scoby died. I haven't got another one yet. I used to make the big batch (a gallon mason jar) with black tea and organic sugar, then I would use 4-quart jars and flavor them. I used to love most the lemon/ginger (just put about half a lemon in each jar, and an inch of sliced ginger) and tart cherry (add about 2 oz tart cherry juice to each mason jar. Ferment another 5 days beyond the week it takes for the big jar. If you keep the big jar going you are always in kombucha!

    I had to look twice. This sounds exactly like me! I brewed for a couple of years and just got out of it in the last 8 months or so when I got too busy in grad school. My scoby still looks intact and healthy sitting in a glass container in my basement, albeit about 4 inches thick! Lemon/ginger is also my favorite. I just found that I couldn't drink all that I was making and no one else in my family cares for it.
  • moonius
    moonius Posts: 663 Member
    I have enjoyed kombucha for years and started making my own in 2008. But when I began eating low carb, I was concerned about the carb content from all the sugar used in the fermenting process. People say that the sugar is eaten up by the scoby but I wasn't so sure, so I haven't had any kombucha for quite some time. I do like it and it is very good for you.
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