/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Yes

it’s pretty good. Turns sugar and black tea and whatever fruit you want into delicious carbonated drinks that mix well with booze or are good on their own. pic related is my setup. brewing pineapple hibiscus rosemary thyme right now.

I liked it, but later I quit on caffeine, so had to stop drinking it.

>>13133488
It's just sugary tea, there are better options if you want a healthy drink that's not water

>>13133488
Rather do kefir. Is WAY faster and tastes way better imo. Both milk kefir and water kefir.

Just drinking a random probiotic cocktail doesn’t magically alleviate gut issues

>>13135871
>It's just sugary tea
obiously never tried it
>>13135364
it's a meme, OP. expensive to buy if you're drinking it every day and too much hassle to make yourself.

>>13135924
>too much hassle to make yourself
uhhh
>make sweet tea
>add to the fermenter you've all but emptied to drink
>wait
yeah not really that difficult m8

>>13135953
>keeping a running supply of fermented stuff

no thanks. i'll occasionally ferment things but not for daily consumption.

>>13135953
The thing is, kombucha takes pretty long. A litre of kefir takes 1-2 days.
I am currently makeing kefir and kombucha, and my kombucha batches always taste like shit. Kefir on the other hand is pretty tasty and way quicker.

all they do is sit around all day, but who would believe me...

>>13133488
you millennials are so ignorant it disgusts me,
this has been around forever , if any of you bothered to know what the fuck is going on around you and not be so fucking self absorbed , you might not be so damn stupid all the time. let me enlighten you on the subject.
Kombucha or fermented tea is believed to have originated in northeastern China around 220 B.C.E.,
The first recorded use of kombucha comes from China in 221 B.C.E. during the Tsin Dynasty. It was known as "The Tea of Immortality" where the drink was considered to have great medicinal value.
Eventually, the kombucha recipe made its way north and west, being used in Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan for several centuries. the name kombucha comes from Japan in about 415 AD .
it became popular in the U.S. in the seventies and eighties , and has had a resurgence again in the 21 century

>>13135967
I would still drink both though ,
kombucha can go quick if it is warm in the area where you are fermenting it , sometimes as little as 6 days, if it is cooler up to 10 days after 10 days it starts to get really strong tasting.
water kefir and yogurt kefir are always easy on the mouth and have a very pleasant taste.
kombucha sometimes is so strong it is difficult to drink.

>>13135924
The only ingredients are sugar, tea and the mother. It's not different from normal tea with sugar nutrition wise

>>13136111
>condescending
>doesnt answer the question, instead gives some bullshit history lesson
Faggot

>>13136111
You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

>>13135967
Kefir is actually too much fucking work and too expensive. You end up buying so much milk and fucking with it every day. Kombucha you just stock up on tea and sugar, let it do it’s thing for a few weeks, then you got a weeks worth of kombucha.

>>13136264

YOU are just fucking stupid AND have fucking ZERO reading comprehension ,

>Is it a gut health miracle elixir
It was known as "The Tea of Immortality" where the drink was considered to have great medicinal value.
AND point number two:
>or another millennial meme fad?
The first recorded use of kombucha comes from China in 221 B.C.E.

lrn2read you cock smoking queer.

>>13136286
what the fuck are you even talking about ?
how does anything you just wrote have to do with anything I posted , god damn you are just to stupid for words.

Fucking californians, you're no better than laboratory rats.

>>13135967
Bottle 4 days in with swingtop bottles, add your fruit/flavored simple syrup then for a secondary ferment.

>>13136300
Why in the fuck are you letting kombucha go for weeks?

>>13136350
I have done that , it is vinegar after a couple of weeks , it is so strong the hair on the back of my neck will literally stand up , it tastes like paint stripper

>>13133488
It's like sauerkraut, you need the live cultures. Any version sold on the market is pasturized so that is a fad, homemade is real.

It's a meme. Kefir is better.

>>13133488
>>13136544
>>13136559
You dumb faggots really think the cure to all your problems in life is if a different microbe colonizes your digestive track. You're certain that the dozen or so already there are doing you no good but your whimsical imbibing of lactobaccillus and yeast is a panacea. You don't see people gulping down brewer's yeast and kimchi and living 10 years longer, but you're certain this new fermented/pickled/cultured product will.

It's just food. Stop falling for marketing.

>>13136006
Underrated

>>13136597
>You don't see people gulping down brewer's yeast and kimchi and living 10 years longer
you can't know that

>>13136597
Kimchi is a pretty big fad in the east though

>>13133488
Good for poops. That part is not a meme.

>>13133488
It’s great for hangovers but that’s about it.

>>13136597
you can look up research and benefits on fermented food, you're literally retarded
>b-b-b-but that's all by design, they push studies for money
>b-b-b-b-but big sauerkraut is run by the jews, its just for money!!!

>>13136597
Look up studies about gut biome, depression, and circadian rhythm. I know you can't read, but maybe someone can help you?

>>13133488
>millennial meme fad
/thread

>>13135924
>too much of a hassle
>basically saying “I’m a lazy ass”
SAD

>>13136812
>>13136669
Acknowledging the gut biome plays a role in digestion and proving you can manipulate it for a specific result are two very different things. Let's see your studies and I can pick them apart.

>>13136667
Anything with water, a little salt, and sugar is good for a hangover.

>>13136669
You still think goji berries are magical and you can cure AIDS with apple cider vinegar don't you?

>>13137100
It is helpful for your gut biome though
>source: your mom’s guts after I smash them up with my 3in cheesewheel

>>13137115
goji berries and vinegar are still better than your diet of jack in the box tacos and pork rinds

>>13136559
this

>>13136404
I really like strong kombucha, I really like how strong gs is, should I let mine sit for a few weeks to get that flavor?

>>13136597
You absolute imbecile. Ever considered it's just tasty?
Can you please fuck off? Fermenting has always been a thing, mainly also to reserve food. Can you just please kys?

>>13137243
Except no one starts a conversation about them with it's tasty. They start by gushing how good for you it is because it's alive MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

>>13137206
So are blueberries and apple juice, but you don't have to pay a premium for those.

>>13136597
>You don't see people gulping down brewer's yeast and kimchi and living 10 years longer, but you're certain this new fermented/pickled/cultured product will.
you do see that

>>13136350
>>13136404
>>13137234
I mean, I’m talking two weeks, 20 days max. It should be strong but not vinegar. Anything less than two weeks is not worth drinking imo. Can’t stand that watery shit.

>>13137569
The only people I see gushing about the health benefits are old soccer moms and stupid faggots.

>>13137115
>>13136812
You guys are stupid as fuck, diet = everything, you have no brains and are not worth giving valuable information to. I even said in my post to make your own, and you still say its marketing shit = brainless

t. pickles, cans, grows, slaughters all my own food. enjoy sucking doctor dick and dying young

>>13137100
Nutrition isn’t a real fucking science dude. If you actually gave a shit you could spend two seconds on google and find as many studies as you want that point towards a general trend of gut biome diversification leading to overall improved health.

>>13137679
Look up kombucha on webmd and those other sites. It’s hilariously fear monger omg. You can see that (((big pharma))) is fucking TERRIFIED of the stuff. That tells me it’s almost certainly good for you.

>>13137692
fear mongering*

>>13137100
We're implying that digestion is a critical function of humans and when that function is disrupted numerous adverse affects can spring up. Google a bit, 4chin keeps claiming pubmed links are spam.

>>13137243
Still bottle early in a fermentation grade swingtop. Then you can let it go unrefrigerated as long as you want for the desired flavor. Cheapest source of the bottles is imported sparkling lemonade. Sprouts and wholefoods will have them.

>>13133488
Over-priced juice

>>13137811
Do you see a price tag on those jars? $10 of sugar and Lipton tea bags will net you 10+ gallons.

>>13136301
so worthless millennial fad, confirmed.

>>13137879
>lipton
Come on, at least use some good tea for kombucha.

>>13133488
can you use your own tea r do you need to buy the bottled stuff? I kind of want to get into fermentation and Buchanan doesn't seem as hard as some other stuff.

>>13137970
I don't brew cheap kombucha. I'm using the existence of cheap ingredients to disprove the other faggot, faggot.

>>13138081
you can use your own as long as it's been boiled and sanitized

Tepache>kombitcha

>>13137879
How much are they? I'm not too familiar with artesian mason jars.

>>13138318
$4 and they come filled to the brim with pickles.