Lactic acid bacteria serum! Aka LABS

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Thanks @George. My first batch looked like that photo – with the fluffy white curds on top. …But with less of them, since my ratio of rice wash (or, in my case, bean wash) was more like 1:1. I poured as much milk into the wash as I could fit in the container, allowing some room on top to keep it from overflowing when the curds formed.

That’s what I did. So now I’ve got two bottles filled: The first batch, which uses whey extracted from beneath the curds; and a second batch which uses whey extracted from above the curds. I added molasses to the first batch, but not the second. …Experimentation going on all around this joint. :wink:

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I read if you mix it 1:1 with molasses it is not shelf stable and does not need to be refrigerated.

I keep mine in the fridge so i can save funds by not buying molasses.

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My gpop just made it into cheese, he strained it and then cooked it or something along those lines and then added salt pepper and garlic. The whole house smell like a foot and i prefer not to eat stinky feet so i opted out of trying the cheese.

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Public service announcement… Molasses will not supersaturate anything as it is a liquid and has a water content. To supersaturate you need to use brown sugar.

Yes! you can certainly use LAB to inoculate a new batch of LAB

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Thanks for the correction man! Now that i think of it i bet it was brown sugar that i read goes in there at 1:1.

This is great to know and will save me plenty of time! Will the curd form like it did for @MrGreenJeans or will it form as it would when using rice wash?

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I do it and it’s just the same

I add the milk too the serum , not serum to the milk tho , idk if that’s what makes the difference ?

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It could go either way, Depends on how sterile the jar is , how “clean” the milk is etc.
so yeah, the same, maybe :rofl:

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Lmao but either way it will create more serum that can be siphoned out?

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This is really good info. Now i can save myself 2 days of waiting for rice wash by using my labs serum as the inoculate. (I hope i used inoculate correctly lol)

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Just ate some curd , tiny bit
Man that taste is powerful haha
Tastes stronger than it smells , and that’s saying something
Wow

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I have bought cheese cloth and going to do some with this next batch … ejem|nullxnull

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Son dared me and I couldn’t let that slide : )

Never again lol
@George

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Lmao did it taste like a foot

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I made mine with Jasmin rice (sweetest), maybe that helps, cheese was like eating Quark … :yum:

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@seeds2weeds it tastes exactly as it smells but multiply by 100

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I offered some of the cheese to our cat. She wasn’t interested.

:pouting_cat: “Send it back, and bring me some fresh roasted CHICKEN!!!”

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