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Screamium@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Feelgood Friday... what's something good that's happened this week?2·17 days agoIt’s easy and pretty forgiving! I copied some notes from the old place’s kombucha sub:
Ingredients:
- 1 quart/4 Cups filtered water
- 1/4 Cup sugar
- Tea (3bags or 1Tbsp)
- Starter culture/kombucha 1-2 cups (2 cups for first time)
Brew the sweet tea. Let it cool until it reaches room temperature (below 90F/32C). Alternatively, brew a smaller batch of hot sweet tea and add cold water to bring it closer to room temperature. (~quart/4 cup volume)
Add the starter liquid (this can just be kombucha from the previous batch) in your brewing vessel (1.5 quart / 6 Cup volume)
Cover the vessel with a fine breathable cloth (or coffee filters) that will let air pass through but not bugs or dust. Most cheesecloth is not suitable as the holes are too big! Use a rubber band to secure the cloth tightly.
Leave it to sit in a warm corner of the house out of direct sunlight. Minimum recommended temperature is 65F/18C, with optimum around 80F/27C. After about a week, you can begin tasting it. Does it taste too sweet? Leave it alone for a while longer. Does it taste perfect? Bottling time! Brew time depends ENTIRELY on preference.
Bottle the kombucha, adding either fruit juice, fruit, or sugar (don’t use square bottles). This bottling process is also known as secondary fermentation or “2F” and will help create carbonation/fizz. If adding fruit juice, fill 10-20% of the bottle with juice and cover with kombucha. If adding sugar, start out with 1 teaspoon/4 grams per bottle (450mL/16oz), and adjust based on experimentation. If fruit - again, experiment, or check what other people have done by scrolling through the posts or checking the wiki article on flavoring. If you need flavour inspiration, check this chart. Remember to reserve some of your brew to use as starter liquid for your next batch.
Let the bottles sit at room temperature for anywhere between 1 and 7 days, to create enough fizz. It depends on amount of sugar, the strength of your kombucha etc. For more information about timing this process and avoiding bottle bombs, check the carbonation wiki article.
Refrigerate the finished bottles to stop the fermentation process and allow more CO2 to dissolve into the liquid
Screamium@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Feelgood Friday... what's something good that's happened this week?6·17 days agoMy first attempt at making kombucha seems to be going well and I’m excited about it!
Screamium@lemmy.worldto Relationship Advice@lemmy.world•What would it take for me [31M] and my fiance [32F] to attain balance in our relationship? I feel like I am more stressed, frustrated and exhausted than I need to be!English9·2 months agoYou both have a 3 year old together. So I’m just guessing here, but are you exhausted and getting on each other’s nerves simply from constantly being around each other and being parents?
Every relationship will have solvable and un-solvable problems. Some you’ve listed don’t seem like a huge deal. Can you just text each other when on opposite sides of the apartment?
Maybe you need some time to socialize outside your partner (or alone time) so you aren’t getting annoyed with each other.
Screamium@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•"No, it would not be easier with help, because then I would have to talk to people"12·3 months agoIf you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Screamium@lemmy.worldto [Moved to Piefed] Ask@lemm.ee•What's on your bucket list?English3·3 months agoTo have a mature forest garden backyard with something to harvest April through October
Screamium@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Homeowners are increasingly re-wilding their homes with native plants, experts say3·4 months agoVery cool! I hope they’re planting nuts, legumes, and herbs as well as fruit
Screamium@lemmy.worldto Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Anonymous takes credit for blackout of Elon Musk's social media outlet97·4 months agoDon’t let great be the enemy of good
Yeah like maybe programmers can relate with DBAs which can relate with System Admins but they’re all pretty different
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They can make money when the market goes down as well by buying Put options, selling Call options, and by shorting stocks. I suspect they’re doing that because it’s harder to make market go up
Of they’re old enough to figure that out then who cares?
Screamium@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meetingEnglish9·5 months agoFurther, it’s 50% of the people in the swing states that really decide things. I’m sure most New Yorkers and Californians that didn’t vote did so because they knew their state would go blue regardless.
When I was a kid I thought they were balloons and tried to pick one up until it stung me. Brutal for a young child who thought the world was safe to explore
The smartest house is designed with passive systems in mind. In the northern hemisphere the south and west are where you get hot summer sun. Deciduous trees planted on the southwest-west will block the summer evening sun, and then drop their leaves so you can still get winter sun.
There’s a set up but no punchline, have the panels gone missing??
Screamium@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the siteEnglish14·5 months agoIt gets compacted in the garbage truck and compacted some more at the landfill. I think the odds are slim it could be found in one piece
Screamium@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Luigi Mangione accepts $300K in donations for legal defense in murder case30·5 months ago*Allegedly
No, in Virginia there’s an annual property tax on cars