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How far do you fill your quart jars before sterilising?
    #28662582 - 02/16/24 04:34 PM (10 months, 25 days ago)

Just a quick question to you all. I am curious how far you fill your quart (1 litre) jars before sterilising them and how much agar from a fully colonised dish do you use?

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Re: How far do you fill your quart jars before sterilising? [Re: Takeatrip] * 1
    #28662963 - 02/16/24 08:04 PM (10 months, 25 days ago)

Depends. Are you using hydrated grains or a no/low prep method? Hydrated would be 3/4 ish full and a low/no prep kind of depends on the grain. I use millet and 1 1/3 cups work great but have no exp with others. Yoshi has a great thread on low/no prep grains.

Agar, a whole plate works or half or whatever. Trade off is more colonizes faster but if you have any tams in your plate, more of a chance of blowing the jar/s. Less agar would be the opposite.

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Re: How far do you fill your quart jars before sterilising? [Re: Bajazly]
    #28664906 - 02/18/24 05:03 AM (10 months, 23 days ago)

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Bajazly said:
Depends. Are you using hydrated grains or a no/low prep method? Hydrated would be 3/4 ish full and a low/no prep kind of depends on the grain. I use millet and 1 1/3 cups work great but have no exp with others. Yoshi has a great thread on low/no prep grains.

Agar, a whole plate works or half or whatever. Trade off is more colonizes faster but if you have any tams in your plate, more of a chance of blowing the jar/s. Less agar would be the opposite.



Thanks. I will go with 3/4 this time, I think I over filled my last batch.

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Re: How far do you fill your quart jars before sterilising? [Re: Takeatrip]
    #28665026 - 02/18/24 07:27 AM (10 months, 23 days ago)

It will all depend on your grain and grain prep methods as mentioned above.

For millet, I do a soak/no-boil millet prep (stipe's prep) and 2/3rds is too much sometimes as they'll still blow up in the jars to 800ml.  600ml or just under seems perfect for the prep I use and my particular bag of millet.  I think stipe does 500ml in his tek.

When I do soak/boil rye berries, they hardly expand so filling the jars to 2/3rds or even a bit more works great.


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