Modernist Pantry Spherification Kit [molecular Gastronomy] Non-gmo Vegan Ou Kosher

The Modernist Pantry Spherification Kit is a great starter kit if you're interested in making spherified liquids. This kit has almost everything you'd need to get started including a 60cc syringe, 50g Sodium Alginate, 50g Calcium Chloride, and 50g Sodium Citrate. The only other things you'd probably want to pick up are a Spherification Spoon and a high precision gram scale to ensure you get the perfect measurements. The included powders are very fresh and I had no problems creating flavored caviar, including an "egg yolk" using mango juice and puree. This kit has enough Sodium Alginate, Calcium Chloride, and Sodium Citrate to make multiple cups (apparently 17 cups!) of caviar. It's a fun kit to get to experiment in the kitchen.

Kit works great and was fun for a little kitchen science.

The syringe dropped super tiny droplets; so small they fully gelled immediately, less than 2 seconds. Other than that, it worked great. I imagine that someone not familiar, might have some issues. If you want to make Boba, or the "juiceballs" you see at Bluberry or Sweet Frog, use Reverse Spherification. Following the instructions in the kit, you'll get little jelly balls, no liquid. These kits are great starters into MG. They are fun for kids, especially Halloween!

It took a few tries to figure out that it should be more like 2g Sodium Alginate per 500g of liquid on the recipe sheet, not 5g per 500g of liquid. If you have too much, your liquid will become jelly. I know it says something about calcium causing the yogurt-like consistency, so I used the citrate, but it didn't help. Sooo, I used less than half of the alginate the recipe called for and it worked. I eventually got red popping boba useing kool-aid. All other natural fruit juices would turn pink or some other Easter egg color. Definitely use the sugar in the water solution or else your boba will taste salty. I'll likely buy it again cause kitchen chemistry is fun.

As the title says, it needs a bit of tweaking to get the ratio correct. Unfortunately calcium chloride goes by weight and while the directions do list a weight, I have had to make several batches and adjusting the numbers to get the right consistency. It is a great introductory kit for those who have never messed around with spherification, however I urge you to buy other supplies to go along with it along with a better dropper vs the large syringe that comes with the kit.