Microbial: Kombucha Leather

Ingredients

• Hot water – 7 cups
• Black tea – 4 bags
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Plain kombucha drink – 1 cup
• You can buy it at the store. Wait until the tea is cooled off to add this ingredient in the mix.
• Optional: SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and
• yeast) if you can find one

Tools

• Cooker or stove (optional: temperature controlled)
• Pot, Scale, Measuring spoons, cups
• Container (glass jar, PVC tapper).
• Sanitizing supplies: gloves, alcohol, paper towel, saran wrap

• Cloth, rubber bands
• Clean the surface to dry the kombucha bio-leather

Method/Procedure

1. After growth:
   1. Wash the SCOBY in soapy water to get rid of any
   2. impurities on the surface of it.
   3. The thickness of your SCOBY will reduce to 80-85%, that’s
   4. why you should let it grow as much as possible (1”)
   5. Clean area to avoid contamination
2.  Drying Process:
   1.  Let your kombucha bio leather dry out in a ventilated area, under a fan, or under the sun. It should be a clean area.
   2. You can press it with a texture screen