Precisely - one after another. When my (Japanese) wife first got me to try it, I nearly vomited before spitting it out.
Then I tried it in miso soup and liked it. Then I put it on top of Japanese curry and liked it more. I ate it these ways for a few years and eventually tried it on plain rice. Now I can just eat it plain, and I absolutely love it!
I got the idea because my wife just bought a big container of homemade stuff from a friend of hers. I figure why buy hers if we can make our own (although she charged us very little money for a heck of a lot of Nattō). The friend says it is easy to make, so I think I’ll give it a shot.
I’m going to give sauerkraut another try too. My first batch plugged the air-lock and blew foul-smelling liquid all over the wall.
We’re completely derailing the thread, luckily it’s yours.
Those instructions remind me I wanted to give another try after the last batch got mold. So many ideas, so lazy.
I actually considered doing sauerkraut at some point. But I don’t eat a lot of it so I tend to forget about it.
Meh, the original thread is over because I realized I was being stupid and decided to just make a tincture @ReikoX’s way, so let the derailing continue - or not. I’m easy either way.
This thread made me inquire about my local everclear equivalent again and I found some. Too late for the harvest I wanted to use it with but anyway good to know I can get it. I think I’ll do a tincture with all fresh herb next time and wait for natural decarb. I want more terpenes in my life
My mom tried to make some back in the 70’s the old fashioned way with the big crock, oak rounds and big rock for weight.
Woke up one morning and the maggots were just giving out of the crock. Lol
I always use >90%. So far I just let it soak forever because I didn’t mind the grassy taste. This time I wanted to do it differently but then couldn’t get the alcohol I think I’ll do an all-fresh tincture next time and let it decarb on the shelf. I have two mandarin strains that might be great if they are anything like I expect them.
Based on your discussion of Lower Proof Alcohol, for someone such as myself that lives in (most of) Canada without easy access to Everclear, what would you suggest is a minimum % alcohol by volume?
The no-decarb thing is something that several of my fellow users swear by. I always decarb. Watermelon had Dr. Hornsby on one of these vids and he said that they had tested many home grown edibles and many were surprisingly high in THCA when it should be THC.
I wonder if she’s altered her process in later videos.
Here’s the final summary of that. There’s also a link for the table of contents for that thread at the bottom of the first post so that everyone doesn’t have to wade through the 1107 pages.
If you used isolate or extract you’d be able to control more accurately how much gets infused than with herb where you’re guessing %s and thing.
Using 2nd wash or trim runs might be efficient but it would probably add some funky flavors, using better quality would be sort of a waste but might taste really good.