Can I squeeze or press on the grains to try expressing more kefir during straining?
You don’t have to squeeze or press on milk kefir-grains with any utensil, including with your fingers while the grains are in the strainer. Certain individuals tend to squeeze on the grains in order to express as much kefir from the grains as possible, during straining. Squeezing on kefir grains during staining will pop-open any self-enclosed grain [although this will not kill or damage the grains as such]. Most kefir grains form as self-enclosed bodies. If one ceases to squeeze or press on previously popped kefir grains, from that point on, any new growth will propagate into the preferred natural growth-structure; as self-enclosed bodies. This will take between 3 to 9 months. However, during this period, there will be evidence of what some folks may feel is unusual in regards to grain growth pattern. Any popped grains will first form as largish flat sheaths. Eventually, flat sheathes form many irregular wart-like growths over the surface of the grain. These irregular growths, or protr
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