Hello viewers, welcome subscribers.
To stir or not to stir.
I want to find out what the effect of stirring
is on my standard iyangju recipe.
It's recommended not to stir after the second
or third day, but I've read other recipes
that say to stir every day.
So lets find out what the difference will
be.
So this is the recipe I usually follow which
starts with sweet rice flour porridge.
That's the juk I'm making right here.
Cool it down.
And when it's cooled down I put it in the
jar.
So I'm using the scale.
One of the jars is ten or eleven grams more
than the other.
I use the scale to divide the juk evenly between
the two jars.
It's a little tedious but it works.
It should be pretty accurate.
I'm going to mix up the nuruk and yeast.
You can see the details of the recipe below.
It's basically the same recipe I've done in
the other iyangju videos, so you can also
watch those videos.
So now I'm dividing the nuruk in the same
way, equally between the two jars.
So Jar A and Jar B should be exactly the same
right now.
So, ferment!
12 hours later, it's liquefied and bubbly,
foamy, looks the same.
So I'm stirring them both right now.
Stir them twice a day.
24 hours later, still the same.
36 hours later, another stir, they're the
same.
And on day 2, I'm going to make hard steamed
sweet rice.
The usual way, which is soaking, draining,
and then steaming.
Then I'm going to split that between the two
jars.
Ok, that's done steaming now, cool it down,
and then that bowl is on a scale there so
I can tell how much rice I'm putting in.
When it gets down to half I switch to the
other jar.
So it's split evenly.
Jar A and Jar B are exactly the same.
I'm going to leave Jar A alone now and I'm
going to continue to stir Jar B twice a day.
I'm going to test them, see if there are any
measurable differences.
The match test - day 4 - went out, so they're
the same.
Then on day 5, match test: stays lit, for
both jars.
So the are behaving similar[ly] according
to the match test.
I can still hear some bubbling, so I left
it to day 7, before I bottled.
So I'm bottling Jar A here.
The strainer works really well for these half-recipes.
The whole thing fits in.
157 grams of lees left over.
End up with one liter of undiluted product
-- wonju.
And here's Jar B. Seems just a little runnier.
I got less lees here: 148 grams.
Again about one liter undiluted product.
There it is.
Settling after a day.
Ok, what were the differences now.
I tasted these and they taste almost exactly
the same.
I couldn't really describe a difference between
them.
Maybe B tasted a little softer than A. One
difference in the fridge: it seemed like B
was gassier, also you can see it was slower
to settle than A.
So the conclusion is that it doesn't matter
than much in terms of taste.
Just turns out to be easier not to stir, so
that's probably what I'm going to continue
to do.
Why stir if you don't have to?
I'm lazy, it's easier, but if I do have to
stir, now I know that it's not going to make
much of a difference in the final result or
final taste.
I'm not harming it by stirring it.
Just might be slowing it down a bit but not
really harming it.
So that's good to know.
That's what I wanted to find out.
Thank you for watching!
