Anybody have experience pickling veggies using fermented koji rice bran? From what I understand the rice bran is fermented using the koji mold A. oryzae. Then...
Is it possible that the takeout boxes could be made from rice straw paper? Natto spores are extremely hardy and are found on rice straw in the wild. I also...
Hi Beau, this is your friend in kefir, Dom, of Kefir_making. To put in my 5 cents worth [the lowest denominator in our currency here in the land of Oz]. It is...
I am the owner of the Kimchi group and I only remember members asking clarifying questions. No one (to my recollection) was disrespectful towards you Staci ...
Hi John, If you can buy soybeans anywhere (bulk section of the supermarket) I get mine at Raley's. You can make your own with a starter culture from. ...
Hi Allan, What a bunch of duds...Is Tokyo even a good place to find Natto rolls? Wow, natto in WV I live in Ca and have never seen it anywhere. You can order...
-thanks for the recipe, I have never had, and never made Natto Pam-- In Microbial_Nutrition@yahoogroups.com, John <jbjet2@y...> ... someplace to buy prepared...
Hello, I remember your post, and I don't believe that anyone meant any disrespect. I don't recall if you mentioned using the storebought natto for innoculant...
... I think Fig was making a sly joke because natto is so... what's the word... "unique".... Most people like or don't mind kimchi, but natto splits the...
Hi, I live in a rural area and would have to drive hours to find someplace to buy prepared natto. Does anyone know of a place to mail order natto on-line? ...
Fig, I am the owner of the Kimchi group and I only remember members asking clarifying questions. No one (to my recollection) was disrespectful towards you ...
... @@@@@@ Hi Tom, As I well remember you as "the cool guy from Wisconsin" and WI is so close to two areas I associate with kvass in my mind, Canada and ...
I posted this to the kimchi group but all I got was disrespect (grin) 1-The frozen natto in oriental stores is a good enough starter. You can add some to the...
Hey - where did you get your tempeh starter? Where are you getting your NATTO starter? Man, I was at a SUSHI bar in SONOMA last night and asked for natto rolls...
... I too would like to hear about kvass techniques. Kvass is one of my all-time favorite fermented food! A big thank-you to Mike for setting up this group. It...
Hello everyone, I'm the Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader for Vancouver, B.C. Canada, and I'm so happy that this group was created! I haven't made...
Yahoo Groups has a 200 word maximum for the group description that appears on the home page. This is a longer and more satisfactory group description. Mike...
Hey guys, So I embarked on the natto mission. Whoa! what an interesting food. I have read much about the stickiness and stinkiness of this culture food of...
Hey Mark, It's fine that they're not organic, I'm still not sure about using the roasted ones. The raw ones would be awesome though. My address is Beau Barrett...
Not organic, just field soybeans from the great Midwest. But I think the roasted ones ARE organic. How about 40 pounds? What's your zip and I'll figure...
Hey Mark, I would surely be interested in obtaining some soybeans from you. Do you grow organically? Do you grow the smaller Natto variety? Either way I would...
Beau, Thanks for the info. I should try making some. I remember when I eat it, it always seems to digest really well - and that's so rare for me. I would soak...
Mark, I did try a second batch, this time I spaced the bags better and did not stack any. They all turned out great after 24 hours at about 85-90 degrees. It's...
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the link, though I have studied it well ;) I think we (you and I) belong to all of the same groups, a couple of fermenting fools we are...
I've never made tempeh, but I've heard it can easily overheat. I read something somewhere about making it in water as a coolant somehow. I also know that it is...
... Hi Beau, I don't have any experience with Tempeh but I wanted to say hi and welcome to the group. : -) Have you looked at Dom's Culture-Food of Asia...
Hi, Good Idea for a group! I just got a bunch of different starters from Gemcultures.com. Tried the Tempeh, Quite the task without a grain mill to de-hull the...
I'm new here so forgive me if this is off-topic. I am in search of some kind of basic microbiological explanation for the odor-results of a fermentation...