Lydia Petrova

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This is my first post. I started making kefir a couple of months ago. But my

kefir grains don't show any sign of growth. And it takes two days for the milk

to develop in kefir although I'm only using 0.2 L at a time. Any suggestion how

I could improve the conditions for my kefir grains to make them feel 'happier'?

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Kefir cultures do not grow much in a short time. The

best result I've ever seen was from some cultures I gave to a Swiss German

friend who has access to an organic (cow) dairy. She used to keep the cultures

in the organic cow's milk and culture organic cow's milk with the cultures. I

was amazed at how much culture she grew. Evidently they love to work in organic

milk, as they did way back in the Caucasus in yak's and goat's milk or whatever

- not just to live in it when in storage and resting from work.

I use about 2 soupspoon fulls of Kefir culture to 2

pints/one litre of cow's milk. If you don't really have enough culture in the

ratio, maybe cos you don't have enough culture yet - it should be no problem but

just take a bit longer to culture the milk, cos you have an underpowered

culturing engine.

We are coming out of winter in the s. hemisphere now but in

the winter I put my yogurt maker and my Kefire culturing jar also, on a coffee

table in an equator facing window. That made the culturing go a lot faster.

Usually I culture for 2 days on the kitchen benchtop, or in the winter for 2

days, on the equator facing window.

yours, Lizzie in Australia.