Alginate spheres

Blueberry syrup, sodium alginate and calcium chloride is all you need to make these spheres that look a little like caviar.

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[blahdob]

Maybe you could put caviar in the blender and make fake real caviar

[JamesBond0034]

when i bleed my nose, sometimes a chunck of blood like this one comes out

[CaericElRoi]

@spacemooseable trufflina(dot)com sells it :)

[kirkbudhram]

how do you get it not to stick together?

[spacemooseable]

sodium alginate? Kinda difficult if you don't have sodium alginate.

any place to get sodium alginate? My neighborhood sodium alginate store

just closed down. Are there any sodium alginate junkies that could spare a dime bag?

[TheSaffaboy78]

We do something similar in our restaurant using agar and dropping them into cold oil. They set right away and also stay set at room tempreture because of the agars setting tempreture. We also make avo spheres but use calcium lactate, is it similar to calcium chloride?

[AnubisReign]

awsum, great job man..that big one at the end was pretty damn nice, held really well.

[vonzipperpunk]

i really need some help on the amount of sodium and calcium used i have the ingredients but now im stuck cant get the right consistency, if any one can help please do!!

[Freebyrd7]

Now, where does one get sodium alginate and calcium chloride???

[jonathanmlang]

@JamesBond0034 Thats called a clot and that is a very different thing

[bluekrackmunky]

looks like a giant blood clot in the end >-<