How to grow copious amounts of pellicle for eating
I like drinking the kombucha I make, of course, that's why I started making it... But, I have also discovered my love of just chowing down on the pellicle. Call me nasty but it's like rehydrated candied fruit to me. Or like sweet pickled mushrooms I guess. I have found no way of describing it that makes anyone I know but me find it palatable, but alas.
I make big batches and drink a couple cups of booch per day, but even on a few week's worth of kombucha is only one pellicle, and I like to keep a piece of it for the next batch, seems to help it grow thicker. So I only get like a few bites out of it. (The pieces that have been floating around for a few ferments get kinda goopy and less appetizing.)
So other than increasing surface area, are there any hacks to making the pellicle grow big, so I could maybe run a separate setup optimizing for the kombucha and for the pellicle?