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agar agar substitute?
    #21594123 - 04/25/15 08:33 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

So, I looked for agar agar at every single grocery store in my area, and couldn't find agar agar anywhere. Don't want to drive out of my way to a city unless necessary. Are there any tested substitutes that work as a replacement??

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: MushSicle]
    #21594139 - 04/25/15 08:38 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Amazon lol


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: wowimflabbergasted]
    #21594176 - 04/25/15 08:52 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

unfortunately there is no substitute for agar. order it online. most of us get the deal where its 4 ounces and 1 for free. I live in a major us city, and even then agar is only in 1 whole foods out of like 10, and its twice as expensive as on amazon.

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: MushSicle]
    #21594195 - 04/25/15 08:58 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

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MushSicle said:
So, I looked for agar agar at every single grocery store in my area, and couldn't find agar agar anywhere. Don't want to drive out of my way to a city unless necessary. Are there any tested substitutes that work as a replacement??





Its not usually sold in regular grocery. Go looking for a real ethnic asian store, I live in a poor neighborhood I have like 7. They might not know it by name, bring a photo on your phone


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: MushSicle]
    #21594303 - 04/25/15 09:34 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Correct.  Grocery store agar won't be found in a conventional-type grocery store.  You have to look in "health/organic-food" stores, or as mushpunx suggests, ethnic grocery stores.  Particularly Asian grocery stores.  The favorite alternative to grocery store agar is to buy the pre-mixed, enriched agar agar from Fungiperfecti. 

When cost of materials, and time spent gathering the ingredients from several different places are factored in, it's found to be up to 50% cheaper, and WAY less time consuming to gather the pre-mixed agar from online sources, and have it shipped to your door.  Ime/o, Fungipefecti has the best deals on the highest quality pre-mixed agar recipes.


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: hamloaf]
    #21594368 - 04/25/15 09:54 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Internet works wonders. no driving out of town needed..

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: Hashish]
    #21594467 - 04/25/15 10:29 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Been doing this for years & still buy my agar premixed from mycology suppliers.

A $30 bottle will last you a really long time... Like half a year or better :thumbup:


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: PirateSwazey]
    #21594591 - 04/25/15 11:08 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Health food stores will sometimes carry seaweed agar.
Most "off the boat" Asian stores will carry.

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: blojo02184]
    #21594652 - 04/25/15 11:24 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

BRF paste. It's not a perfect substitute but you can clone or germinate spores on it or isolate from molds.


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: Kizzle]
    #21594688 - 04/25/15 11:36 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Just throwing this out there, could one possibly use like a sugar free gelatin?

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: PinPornProducer]
    #21594708 - 04/25/15 11:41 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

I know there are a lot of organisms which can break gelatin down and turn it back into a liquid. I don't know if mushroom mycelium would do that.


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: Kizzle]
    #21594731 - 04/25/15 11:47 AM (9 years, 25 days ago)

The reason I mentioned it is because agar agar is used to make gelatin.

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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: PinPornProducer]
    #21594942 - 04/25/15 12:42 PM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Well there's gelatin the dessert and there's gelatin the ingredient. You can make gelatin with agar agar but usually it's made with gelatin :tongue:


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Re: agar agar substitute? [Re: Kizzle]
    #21595473 - 04/25/15 02:45 PM (9 years, 25 days ago)

Thanks for the ideas and advice, I'll probably end up ordering it online. I'm in no big rush

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