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Agar Powder ?


kolka

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I just made some Colby 'cheeze' from Joanne Stepaniak's book The Uncheese Cookbook. It calls for agar flakes or powder. I got the powder from an Asian market near me. When I opened the little envelope of it, the smell was awful. It was worse than bad medicine, more like turpentine.

Has anyone used this ingredient? Is it supposed to smell like that? I went ahead with the recipe:

Colby Cheeze

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The agar agar I used had no particular smell. It's sad to say, but I probably wouldn't trust something that honestly smelled bad. But I'm no expert on agar agar. Sorry. Maybe someone else knows for sure.

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Agar is a polysacharide extracted from algae (typically red algae aka sea weed). Most agar has no smell, but depending on the extraction, there can be a "seaweed" smell.

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