interchanging raw milk with pasteurized

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Question for you. I have been working with my milk kefir for about four weeks

and it is going wonderfully. I have been making a quart a day and have extra

grains frozen in milk, another batch dried and frozen, and also about 3 tbslp

sitting in milk in the fridge. I am reluctant to use them in smoothies and such

because I'm paranoid something will happen to the ones I am using! Anyway,

yesterday, I received my first batch of raw milk. We are getting a gallon a

week, and, since I need to make about a quart a day, I will need to also use

pasteurized milk for the other days. What would be the best way to do this? 4

days of raw, then switch the grains directly into the pasteurized for three?

Any thoughts/cautions on this? I don't want to combine the milk b/c I want to

give one of my sons the raw milk kefir only.

Just checking if there is anything I should be aware of.

Thanks.

[Guest guest]

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I use raw milk for my kefir and pasteurized for my dogs' kefir. I just have one

jar of each going at the same time. I have found that  the grains I've been

using in the pasteurized milk take a few days to adjust to the raw milk. Keeping

the two separate will probably give you a more consistent product.

Kathleen

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From: bsbierle <sbierle@...>

Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:06 PM

Subject: interchanging raw milk with pasteurized

 

Hi everyone,

Question for you. I have been working with my milk kefir for about four weeks

and it is going wonderfully. I have been making a quart a day and have extra

grains frozen in milk, another batch dried and frozen, and also about 3 tbslp

sitting in milk in the fridge. I am reluctant to use them in smoothies and such

because I'm paranoid something will happen to the ones I am using! Anyway,

yesterday, I received my first batch of raw milk. We are getting a gallon a

week, and, since I need to make about a quart a day, I will need to also use

pasteurized milk for the other days. What would be the best way to do this? 4

days of raw, then switch the grains directly into the pasteurized for three?

Any thoughts/cautions on this? I don't want to combine the milk b/c I want to

give one of my sons the raw milk kefir only.

Just checking if there is anything I should be aware of.

Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I would NOT do that with your grains. Use only the raw milk and put the fresh

batch with the grains in the fridge to make it til you get more raw milk. Your

grains will not be able to handle the back and forth. If you want, have a

separate batch of grains only for pasturized milk and leave the other batch for

only raw milk. If you run out of raw milk, just put the jar in the fridge until

you get the next bottle of milk.

Al

interchanging raw milk with pasteurized

Hi everyone,

Question for you. I have been working with my milk kefir for about four weeks

and it is going wonderfully. I have been making a quart a day and have extra

grains frozen in milk, another batch dried and frozen, and also about 3 tbslp

sitting in milk in the fridge. I am reluctant to use them in smoothies and such

because I'm paranoid something will happen to the ones I am using! Anyway,

yesterday, I received my first batch of raw milk. We are getting a gallon a

week, and, since I need to make about a quart a day, I will need to also use

pasteurized milk for the other days. What would be the best way to do this? 4

days of raw, then switch the grains directly into the pasteurized for three?

Any thoughts/cautions on this? I don't want to combine the milk b/c I want to

give one of my sons the raw milk kefir only.

Just checking if there is anything I should be aware of.

Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Great. Somehow I missed this and, in the meantime, mixed one batch of raw

and pasteurized together (3:1) as I was short raw milk for the batch.

Hopefully, one 24 hour period will not damage my grains. I have requested

an add't half gallon, so, if that works, I will be able to do 6 quarts in a

week, and then would most likely throw the 6th day's batch into the fridge

and hold in there for the two days until I get my next delivery. Does that

sound reasonable?

Any thoughts on the grains that I do have mixed? Do you think they'll be

okay? Tomorrow they are going to have to go into pasteurized as I won't

get any more raw milk until Friday afternoon. Going forward from Friday, I

will do the switch over and not use in pasteurized any longer.

Thanks for your continued help as I learn the ins and outs -

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