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[silverseeds]

  The milk kefir feeds  on lactose and the water kefir the sugar you add to the mix. I dont have a cow or goat so Im probably going to get the water kefir soon. I have kombucha now.

[Ozark Lady]

I dried off my goats for a bit of a break from milking.

I then froze some of my milk kefir grains, I dried some of them.  And I decided to experiment with some more.

I used powdered milk and fed them on this.  They are producing, they are growing.

So, even powdered milk works!  Good to know in a survival situation, if you can't get fresh milk, you can still keep some milk kefir grains going.

I have used one box of powdered milk, all winter, and it is a small box.  My goal was just to see if they would grow and work, I didn't use my best kefir grains in this experiment.  And I didn't offer them fresh made milk everyday.

[Dame]

Wow, I have never tried kefir, but like both yogurt and buttermilk.  If the experiment with the dehydrated grains reconstitute I would like to get some by mail if possible.

[Ozark Lady]

I haven't tried rehydrating them, from frozen or dried.  I received mine through the mail, and they were fresh.

That is why I tried 3 ways of preserving them.

It will be a bit before the powdered milk ones are large enough to do much with, they were scraps.  But they are growing.

The larger ones were frozen or dried.  I hope they will reconstitute well.  All reports on kefir websites say they do, but it can take a few days to get them back on the job and a week or two to get them growing again.

[Dame]

I do fine with cold rise sourdough yeasts and make a regular mess every time I do yogurt as it is so temperature sensitive.
I see the dehydrated as the only reasonable way of receiving any of these things as it could take weeks to receive it through the mail.