Lacto Life
I have made LABS many times using the classic recipe using white rice wash, time and milk. Recently, I found a recipe called LACTO LIFE that uses brown rice wash, and salt. So, From what I know you have to feed your cultures milk in order to select out lactobacillus from everything else that is captured in the rice wash. With this recipe, there is no milk. So, I would like to hear from some more experienced KNF’ers if this can work and how. If your trusting, follow this link. If not, just google “Lacto Life” and the recipe is there.
https://www.lacto-life.com/basic
thanks for the feedback.
Top answer
Salt and brown rice will change the colonies of LAB that colonize the nutrients. The white rice method of Master Cho is designed to catch a broad family of Lacto.
From the KNF library
From the KNF library
Drafted by Claude from Office Hours and the books
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Sep 2026
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The library says nothing about brown rice, salt, or the Lacto Life recipe.
Drake teaches milk as the purification step. Lactobacillus outcompetes other microbes for the lactose (Office Hours Ep. 23, 11:15). Rice wash, sauerkraut, kimchi, and fish amino acid also carry LAB on their own (Office Hours Ep. 23, 11:15).
The classic recipe runs in three moves:
- Leave the rice wash open to the air for 24 hours (Student's Manual, Basic Course, p. 17).
- Pour the wash into milk at 1:10 (Cho's Solutions, p. 19).
- Strain off the solids, then mix equal parts sugar into the remaining liquid (KNF Demystified, p. 31).
Sources
- 11:15 Office Hours Ep. 23 (Mar 2022) — IMO4 Pig Feed, LAB Without Milk, Disgustingly Cheap Microbes · “Milk is a purification step since lactobacillus outcompetes other microbes for the lactose; rice wash water, sauerkraut, kimchi, or fish amino acid also carry LAB.”
- p. 19 Cho's Solutions · “The ideal ratio of liquid from step 1 to milk is 1:10.”
- p. 31 KNF Demystified · “Strain off the solids and mix equal parts of sugar into the remaining liquid to make it shelf stable at room temperature.”
- p. 17 Student's Manual, Basic Course · “Leave the bowl in the open air for 24 hours (do not cover)”
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I personally use both forms i believe Master Cho's is the better of the 2 i use it in so many places the garden the compost i take baths in it use it on rashes and all sorts of great stuff but i do prefer the LactoLife recipe for consumption i just think it tastes better in my juices i also this yr used just a bit of the LactoLife recipe to jump start a pickle brine that made some really good pickles
