More like CUMbucha. How do people drink this? Just looking at it makes me feel nauseous.
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More like CUMbucha. How do people drink this? Just looking at it makes me feel nauseous.
that stuff is vile. I worked with a girl who drank tons of it and she would stink up the whole office
Can you, perhaps describe her particular odors and/or scents?
if a scoby weirds you out don't look up what lives inside your tract
i have zero idea what im even looking at but its making me feel sick
Literally just yeast
Scoby = symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.
Literally not just literally yeast
well for one you dont drink the scoby. although some mad lads do in fact dehydrate it and make it into some kind of jerky/fruit leather thing. The scoby is tasteless either way and harmless if you do accidently drink some.
a comparison that might be easier to understand is it's basically sour dough tea and the op is pretending you eat the raw yeast in your starter rather than the finished bread.
By default it's a sour acidic drink, if you like sour things then drink first ferment kombucha. if you want it carbonated then you do a second ferment and add abunch of fruit to it and it basically tastes like fruit soda.
Grow up dude
tastes good and is healthy
Jesus you guys b***h about everything
Why is that thing called the scoby?
It's actually called the scooby
>SCOBY is the commonly used acronym for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast", and is formed after the completion of a unique symbiotic fermentation process of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), acetic acid bacteria (AAB), and yeast to form several sour foods and beverages such as kombucha and kimchi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOBY
youve never had a mouthful of cum before? what are you a homosexual?
lmao this dude acting like I didn't just suck off his dad after he fricked my mum, fricking get your head straight I ain't no homosexual
you dont drink solids you chew them dumbass
What's the difference between kombucha and mead?
Kombucha all start off as tea.
Never made it myself. I buy it from the store. They don't have the scoma(or w.e. it's called) in it.
It's nice. Has a bit of a vinegary smell but it isn't bad.
>called kombucha
>doesnt have kombu in it
you don't drink the scoby, you dingus.
Well obviously. You chew it.
All the recipe I see say to use black or green tea. Can I use a lemon ginger or rooibos tisane instead? Will it keep it's flavour after the fermentation?
>Can I use a lemon ginger or rooibos tisane instead?
No, my understanding is the bacteria actually feed off certain compounds in the tea leaves in addition to the sugar, so it has to be actual tea in order to grow correctly.
I think at that point you're making an entirely different beverage. Lacto bacillus is pretty resilient, so the ferment will probably work, but I would keep a back up culture in case it goes breasts up.
no, you should only use regular Camellia sinensis based teas. So black, green, oolong. No flavors or infusions or it will frick up your first ferment. The bacteria and yeast in the scoby are very particular about eating just sugar + Camellia sinensis teas. If you want a specific flavor, then you add flavoring during the second ferment process (phase 2).
Phase (1):
Take tea, boil tea, put tea into container with sugar, let tea reach room temperature, add scoby + 1 cup of starter kombucha, cover with a cloth and rubber band, wait 7 days to infinity for your 'first' ferment to be complete.
Phase (2):
During the 2nd ferment, you put the kombucha in a different container, such as individual bottles + 1 cup of your flavoring. During second ferment the bacteria eat the sugar from the flavoring leaving you with a sour drink that tastes like whatever flavor you added. If you want lemony or gingery kombucha you add it during phase 2.
Kombucha is really popular because its extremely hard to frick up. You're growing sugar eatting bacteria that turn the tea into a high acidic drink that doesnt let anything else grow. This is something illiterate peasents use to make in their home with no modern sanitation.
Kombucha basically saved my life
I had all kinds of weird gastro-intestinal stuff going on until I started drinking it daily
Total game changer
I hear Kefir is similarly good in that regard, but it's not nearly as popular around here so it's hard to find
man i hate this board so much
it's either
>what do we think of the new taco bell AIDS-wrap jihad cruncharito?
or it's
>did you watch the new babish mukbang?
or, it's godforsaken threads like this one, where some tards whine about
>waaah food yucky!
do you tards eat anything that isn't beige? frick i hate you all so much. and the maybe 10% of people here who've actually worked in a restaurant are all pretentious morons as well, speaking broken french and arguing about cast iron. why do i come here? frick
moron moment