Foaming
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Foaming
I get a load of bakery waste from the grocery each week. They are loaded with sugar, so I figured I'd give it a shot. It ferments like crazy, but foams like nobody's business. I think it is the icing. I tried Fermcap S but it doesn't touch it. NOVOZYMES CONVERTASE AG300L seems to do a good job converting the cakes and cookies. Anyone got a solution to the foaming?
Re: Foaming
Give it room.
Sometimes adding fat or oil reduces the foaming, but I guess in bakery waste there is fat enough.
Maybe some acids might help. Or tannin?
Sometimes adding fat or oil reduces the foaming, but I guess in bakery waste there is fat enough.
Maybe some acids might help. Or tannin?
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Re: Foaming
Don't think your pigs will care if it foams....badflash wrote:I get a load of bakery waste from the grocery each week...Anyone got a solution to the foaming?
Most cereal grains won't foam too bad in the fermenter even with glucoamylase enzymes added. Perhaps you're trying to make "a silk purse out of a sow's ear". "Free" food scraps are not always the best fermentables.
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Re: Foaming
The sugar is no good for the pigs. I need to reduce it before I give it to them. I will try using a bucket instead of a fermenter.
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Re: Foaming
Boil the load of waste in water and then stick it in the freezer...the sugar with be dissolved and the fat from the icing will form a hard crust on top that can be removed with ease, then ferment as normal.
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Re: Foaming
Freezer is full of pork. Have to wait for next winter, thanks for the tip.
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If you have an ice chest large enough for a 5 gal bucket, you could fill it with 10lb of regular ice or 1/2lb dry ice, if you can get if near you...my moto is "never let free sti# go to waste"badflash wrote:Freezer is full of pork. Have to wait for next winter, thanks for the tip.
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Re: Foaming
Between buying a freezer and dry ice, the free stuff isn't so cheap...