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Think Big Kombucha leather

SCOBY leather is a flexible biomaterial that’s made from a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY). A SCOBY grows thicker with each brew as the culture feeds on the dissolved sugar, polyphenols and other nutrients in the freshly brewed and sweetened tea.Once the SCOBY achieves the desired size its harvested and treated just like traditional textile leather, this is followed by the drying process before being molded into shape. SCOBYs can be grown much more efficiently than leather, because it doesn’t rely on any animal products during production. Here you will find a manual to grow your own oversized Kombucha scoby.

How To

here an example of the scoby thr34de was growing some years ago. Most important ingredient as usually in fermenting is TIME

Ingredientlist

for construction 8 big wodden slats
2 thick plastic sheetings 3x4m
1 thiner plastic sheetings 4x5m
2 Kg of black or green tea (this is the most expensive cost)
8 liter of industrial vinegar
8 Kg of sugar

Material List:
padsaw
gaffa tape
drill
screws
plastic tarps 2x, 3x4m
big bucket at least 30 liters
additional plastic tarp for covering the floor

kombucha material list:
2 kilogram of Tea
8 liters of vinegar
8 kilogram of sugar
80 liters of of Water

2 people at least!

If you have an empty unused space its good to make sure you can seal the rooms,
so the smell emission during the brewing time will not be disturbing others.

here you see the tea we used, as a tipp, the more tea you use, the faster it will grow,
using 2 Kg of tea can become a bit costy but it will enhance a fast growing process,
investment point the highest was the tea, finding a place that sells you cheap tea was also not as easy.

Where to grow your bigsize Scoby

Best ist if you find an abandoned building or you have lots of space in your rooftop, somewhere where you have access, you have windows to occassionally ventilate the room. How I was inside a residency at Cité International des Arts, I saw there were some studios unoccupied and just took my courage to ask to use them. It turned out that they have even more space and gave me an entire rooftop floor to install my small biolab.

version 1: with contamination (still usable)
version 2: without contamination (perfect!)