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Bacterial Cellulose

A good reference recipe for creating bacterial cellulose.

Ingredients
  

  • 7 cups clean water
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 4 bags black tea
  • 1 cup live kombucha

Equipment

  • 1 glass container
  • 1 tightly woven cloth
  • 1 rubber band

Instructions
 

  • Make your sweetened tea. Bring water to a boil and then stir in sugar until fully dissolved. Add tea bags and allow to steep until liquid cools to room temperature.
  • Pour sweetened tea into your container and then add the live kombucha.
  • Cover your container with a tightly woven cloth (I prefer cheesecloth) and secure with a rubber band. Store container room temperature and somewhere out of direct sunlight.
  • Leave your fledgling kombucha for 1-4 weeks to ferment. You should start to see small bubbles forming and a thin opaque layer on top that will become your SCOBY.