best place to buy kefir grains

[justineaton]

I see them on cultures for health for about $17 and it says it will do a quart at a time. I also found some on Amazon for $5 but I wrote to them and asked about how much it was and they said enough for half a cup. Is there anywhere else that you recommend to get them from? I am looking to get some of both types. Water and milk, I have a family of four and we will easily go through a quart of each every couple days plus I would like to experiment with sour cream and cheeses with it. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[WWFSM]

I've had good luck ordering cultures from Wells of Health on etsy. https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/WellsofHealth

Well, I said good luck, but one of the yoghurt cultures didn't grow right away. They helped me troubleshoot it and in the end sent a free replacement. But you have to really pay attention to their instructions for them to honour their guarantee.

They sell both kinds of keefer, but I haven't ordered it from them myself. My friends have though, and they loved it.

[justineaton]

Thanks I bookmarked the page and we'll check it out tonight.

[WWFSM]

Let us know which source you choose and how it works for you.

[justineaton]

Will do.

[justineaton]

I bought from fusionteas on Amazon. Their milk kefir grains have 120 five star ratings and I had an Amazon credit. I plan on buying the water kefir grains from the link you shared though.

[justineaton]

I probably should have thought about it before ordering, but will they be ok shipping in this cold weather?

[justineaton]

Well I got my grains three days ago now and I am happy with them, I am still doing one cup batches until the strength gets up but even the first batch wasn't bad. It was thin and yeasty tasting but I drank it all, I just now drank the second batch and it had very little yeast taste and was thicker. It wasn't a very good consistency with runny milk and globs in it but it tasted great, I'm hoping the consistency of it will be better after a few more batches and I'm going to buy a wooden spoon to stir it at the twelve hour Mark as well so hopefully that will help.

[rbarreca]

Thanks for the tips, I've just ordered dairy kefir grains from Wells of Health on etsy and will see how it goes.

[WWFSM]

Let us know how they work out rbarreca.