🍡 I’d like to turn this into something you’d enjoy eating! What should I do with the other stick?

My mom prefers getting these in white and red, so they'd turn pink. She also adds sugar evaporated milk, and pineapple tidbits, and she makes them every Christmas.

agar-agar is also vegan! so it's a great gelatin alternative, but it does have a different texture that can be too snappy

Fun fact agar agar is the gel that they use to fill petri dishes and it's great for growing micro organisms

Funny thing is I first learnt about agar agar in mircobiology because you use it in culture mediums. I was so weirded out when I saw it in recipes

My love here is my suggestion: Maybe we can add more water, sugar and flavors for better consistency. How I grew up eating is: get the colorless one then soak and boil it in water then add it to hot boil milk with sugar (flavored milk like strawberry, tender coconut, mango) you can just add some fruit jam or purée. Would taste great. With jiggly texture

In indonesia agar is more common than gelatine. I didnt know that there's something called gelatine until I was an adult and traveled outside Indonesia. We made pudding and sauce and jelly with it, and if you use agar powder there will be no crumbly consistency, it's silky smooth and very jelly-like.

Add to coconut milk and tapioca pearls will make a delicious desert. 😋😋😋

Aw man we love agar jelly! It's a perfect vegetarian alt to geletine, and makes for a nice fruity snack when flavoured nicely

Agar agar is great, vegan gelatin option for all those out there not wanting cartilage for dessert, I used to boil it then when its colling you put in in juice or with some mint syrup so it makes delicious treats without adding too much sugar.

My mom mainly calls it China grass. She makes this during Ramadan for my dad, who puts it rooh afza (syrup made from rose syrup)😊

I love those with evaporated milk and sugar then add either pineapple tidbits or fruit cocktail in the container before it sets

Looks so cool, never seen it in green.

We also have agar agar in Indonesia, but ours is in powder 😂 My mom usually cook it with sugar and coconut milk, It will taste sweeter and tastier

I'm Indonesian and we usually found agar-agar in the shape of powder in the supermarket instead of the crumbly thing like you have. And agar-agar is a more common thing to be used in Indonesia compared to gelatine.

Man i love how the comment section is all so respectful, peaceful, happy, and like super friendly.

in Indonesia we have product name is nutrijel, But it's in powder form and cooked with water usually made into a sweet drink we call "es buah".

i'm familiar with agar agar but i never saw it in those sticks before! i'm used to it in its powder form. that's so neat

Try adding some condensed milk and rose syrup. Tastes amazing

With the agar agar mix with sugar and let dry for 3 days or 8 hours in the oven the outside will be crunchy and the inside soft

Another form of agar² is powder. My mom loves to make agar² and she always use the powder one.

Try the Vietnamese version of this dessert! It’s just like jello

It's a plant (seaweed) based jelly. The firmness depends on the how much water is use in the mix.

For those who don't know, agar agar is like gelatin just it's made with seaweed instead of bones.

In here, we have them in powder shape, and they have colours like transparent, red, etc.

I want to visit Philippines at least once in my life, they are so diverse and mystic in terms of flavors

I miss this. Even though I'm in the Philippines, Agar isn't sold anymore near me in Batangas which was so common when I was a kid until around early 2010s. The stores and supermarket removed it and replaced it with different types of mr. Gulaman sold in sachets because its easier and faster to cook. But honestly I prefer real Gelatin though expensive or Agar because of the consistency/texture when firm. Mr. Gulaman after a day leaks water or soft even if less water is added. While Gelo and Agar are Firm which is perfect for broken glass/cathedral window dessert which color doesn't leak and separate when milk or white is added. Usually with mr. Gulaman when mixed to make broken glass, it leaks which makes the color murky with the mixed colors.

We used agar to make our agar plate to grow different microorganisms on it. It comes from red algae

Yeah, we used to make dessert out of it. "Gelatine" as we call it. We used to dissolved it in hot water pour some evap and condense milk and sugar. Bring it to boil. Then, in a llanera, put some tapioca and fruit of your choice (pineapple) and pour the mixture. Then, add grated cheese on top and chilled 😊 yum

lol i remember my mom made this during pandemic and coz i cant go out i'd add this to my iced coffee to make coffee jelly 😂

Ohhh! My mom makes coconut pudding with these! So she cooks tender coconut pulp+ coconut milk+ condensed milk till it’s thick. Then she double boils the agar agar so it melts and then adds to the coconut mixture. And set in the refrigerator! You can too it off with some nice candy nuts and it’s my FAVOURITE DESSERT ever!

The word "agar" comes from agar-agar, the Malay name for red algae (Gigartina, Eucheuma,[8] Gracilaria) from which the jelly is produced

cook this the same but with the ube extract, and see people go nuts...

I thought this and gelatin are one and the same. We both call them gulaman. 😅

It's also really cheap! You can also get it as a powder that you can dissolve and boil in the same way. Add sugar and (if you have the ones that aren't precolored) you can add food coloring.

Agar jelly is the stuff they put in pork pies and dog food, it's the jelly as in "chunks in jelly" yum! Enjoy

In Germany you usually find it in powder form, so I was surprised when you said it's ager ager because I've never seen it like that.

Sparkling apple cider + strawberries + agar is great Coffee jelly is great Grass jelly is great (mesona iirc) Almond milk + agar w/ cut/sliced strawberries Lastly… Green tea boba 💯

For those wondering, agar is a red algae (seaweed) product

Mix half with coconut milk and the other half with coconut water, pour them into a bowl in layers... Cooling each layer in between..... Add sugar depending on how sweet you want it

Agar agar is widely used in the culinary world, both as a vegan alternative to gelatine but is also priced for it's properties to produce a heat restistent gel up to around 45 degrees celcius. This is achieved by making your agar agar gel with whichever flavouring you want, and then blending it until completely smooth, thus negating the crumbling texture as well. Afterwards you can bag or squeze bottle it for service

Agar agar in powdered form is very common in fine dining restaurants. Specifically its one of the most common gel agents to make fluid-gels with, or it can also be used to make caviar-like spheres of any liquid (Spherification) It has slightly different properties than gelatin which makes it great for those applications

just put agar agar and a few teaspoon of milk in the mixer jar and blend it. heat milk and sugar and cook until the sugar desolves. add the agar agar mixture to it and turn off the heat when it starts to thicken. put it in a box to set. cut into diamonds and serve. we make it once every month. you can also add cashews while blending. it enhances the taste more.

Good tactile description 😊

You did great to describe the difference between jello and agar, I appreciate it

I've made coffee jelly with these before! (instant coffee, sugar, and maybe a touch of red food dye if you get the green ones to neutralize the colors. boil, then pour into any pan or jello mold you like. I put mine in clear teacups I thrifted because I thought it would be cute. I was correct. Then just top with whipped cream)

Agar is also what's used in the bottom of petri dishes as a substrate. It's made from red algae.

In Malaysia, we add sugar to it. So, agar-agar will be more sweet. Some state in Malaysia dried the agar-agar under sunlight, then after it dried, agar-agar will solidified at the outside (not too hard just like a candy) and we eat it as a sweets or candy. I really enjoy eat the dried version because it's crunchy at the outside and soft at the inside with a sweet taste. I'm not sure how other southeast Asia country eat it but that's how we eat it in Malaysia (the watery one and the dried one).😊

Ive seen so many people make jelly tarts with Agar on shorts, man i want some.

Very popular in Japan. Good diet food. Like no calories

If you want to experiment, you can change the texture to be a bit spongy?foamy? by mixing it with egg whites! Soft boil the agar with milk and sugar, you can also add other flavours here. On another bowl whisk some egg whites until its start foaming (stop until just before you reach a soft peak) Slowly fold the warm agar mixture in, and let it cool My grandma used to pour it into a mold and layered a vanilla flavoured spongy-foamy agar as the base with a regular clear agar with cut up fruits in it, and it created fun and different textures!

I use agar agar to make casting molds! You can cut up the mold and remelt the agar chunks to make a different one after casting, it’s very versatile. You just have to be careful not to reuse the agar for too long cause it can grow bacteria over time.

I like making coconut jello with agar agar. You just need a can of coconut cream, sugar to taste, and a pinch of salt. I like adding jackfruit bits.

Called gulaman or agar-agar (dried seaweed). Yes, that's how we use for gulaman drink when we were kids and Gelatin desserts refrigerated to solidify. So good.

I used agar agar to make vegan cheese cake, here's my recipe 2 (8oz) containers vegan cream cheese 1 cup Monkfruit sweetener 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Dissolve: 2 Tablespoons of Agar agar powder 2 Tablespoons coconut milk Microwave for 3 minutes pour it to your cream cheese mixture And pour that cheesecake mixture over any cookie crust you like, refrigerator for 1 hour 😁 Enjoy!!

Agar agar is also used in mushroom cultivation as a growth medium, I use it for cloning and starting Oysters, reishi, etc.

Pour it into petri dishes and use them to grow bacterial samples. That is what they use to make petri dishes solid, agar. It's green because it's literally processed seaweed, or nori.

My Grandma used to make fruit jellies with this when we were little. She would mix it with fruit juice then put some berries or slices of fruit in the bottom of the ramekins. My brother and I always loved them

Agar Agar is basically vegan gelatin. Usually come in rice paper look like sheet. Its a well know alternative.

Omg childhood unlocked! I called these the firecracker jelly because of how they looked and sounded before cooking

I put agar agar powder into a melted chocolate mixed with milk and cocoa powder to make a chocolate pudding. It becomes so creamy and soft and delicious!

I have Indonesian friends, they have this as well, but it was lighter green and there was a white layer. It was good !

Malaysia call it agar-agar too.. Our agar2 are white.. We always add it with sugar and red rose flavour.. And we also can add milk,sugar and bread and colourful food colouring... ❤❤❤❤

My grandma used to make these, and she usually mix them with syrups for flavoring. My favorite one is agar with nutmeg syrup

In Asian supermarkets in the US they have this but from the Thai brand Telephone. It's a white powder instead, but still agar agar. We make pandan and coconut jellies with it

Great diet hack for me! Agar2 for snacks. It has very little calories, just eat when I feel like snacking. Obviously I added sugar until I like the sweetness but not adding much calories.

I once had an ice cream dessert that was topped with "Espresso caviar" made w Agar agar. It was amazing with the contrast of textures.

that was actually a really good explanation of the texture, i think it got across really well.

agar is basically a vegan version of gelatin. it comes from algae rather than animal collagen. we use it in the lab to make growth mediums for bacteria called agar plates. there's also agar deeps and slants but those are for more specific tests

Old Mountain Dew bottles are delicious.

As green as this stuff is I'd probably mix in some woodruff syrup for taste keeping it green ^^ (Woodruff or "Waldmeister" in german is a plant that gets used in a lot of desserts here in Germany. Looks a bit like mint and tastes... a bit like lemon/lime i guess. Hard to describe as it really is unique)

My childhood ❤❤❤ We usually cook it with milk, sugar, and eggs.. somewhat similar to a panna cotta. Delicious 😋

Agar agar also called GULAMAN, it comes in bar with different colors like red green & yellow.

My grandma would make desserts with agar-agar and pandan, absolutely delicious! My family is from Indonesia.

I first learned about agar agar in school where it's used with potato starch to make potato jelly And that potato jelly it's used to culture microbes in the bio lab It was a fun experiment It's cool that it's a vegetarian alternative to gelatin as well 😀

U have to add sugar to it and boil it until it dissolved. U can put sago and the agar2 into a cup and add coconut milk with a pinch of salt,or u can add sugar to the coconut milk or just any milk u prefer. It's delicious. Try it

I love putting coffee in agar agar makes the perfect and light coffee jelly and would pop one in my mouth when I need a pick me up

You put a creeper up like it looked like one, but these things look so much more like a bar of Irish Spring soap 😭🤣

We strain the agar2x to separate the weird texture like sand. Then put sugar or condensed milk.. or put it on buko pandan salad, fruit salad, macaroni etc.

Add a bit of it to your gelatin jelly to give it that stiffness you didn't know you needed. Best of both worlds

As a person who doesn't eat gelatin this is a great alternative, but it does matter how you cook it. If you cook it a certain way it could have the same texture as gelatin. Personally I've never tried gelatin but it gives a really nice "Jello" like texture and is not crumbly like how you explained in the video. And the people I know who eat gelatin say it's really similar.

It looks like those things people would put fake plants in at church. You know, the little green bricks that get real squishy when water is applied

Mixing in tajin and lime juice when it cools down before you chill it makes really savory treats 😁

It should either have sugar and/or milk. Or condensed milk to give it flavor and makes it softer though. Then it should also be strained before letting it set.

My mom would make the agar jelly (clear) and cut it into cubes and put lime and sugar. Simple refreshing snack for the summer.

Dried agar-agar bars. These are first soaked in either cold or tap water before cooking.

You can buy agar agar in a powder form that is white to clear in color. It is used to make raindrop cakes.

agar agar is basicly gellitin but like more powerfull so one table spoon of agar powder is like 6 tablespoons of geliton, and i would recomend making crystal jellys

I know agar from my work place in the lab where we use it to cultivate bacteria! XD it’s like a plant based gelatin I think made from some kind of algae? It’s used in micro biology because it has a higher melting point than gelatin which would get way to soft when incubated at body temperature or higher and since we incubate the Petri dishes upside down, it would just melt and slump into the lid. But agar is also a popular vegan substitute for gelatin.

that colour looks very synthetic

I used this to make vegan cheese and jello in the 80s. Great stuff!!

Key lime pie would look gorgeous with a little bit of this.

I used a white agar and hydrated it with sweetened coffee. Refreshing dessert.

Add sugar and pandan flavor. Add cubes of ripe mango. Add cream and some condensed milk. You can also use fresh young coconut meat instead of the mangoes and coconut cream for the dairy. Chill and serve. I grew up knowing it as gulaman.

Been using agar agar for vegan jello shots for years. If you mix it well with the flavors and colors you like, plus a good balance of citric acid you’ll never know the difference!

Agar is a disaccharide I’m pretty sure. It’s used in laboratory research to make gels. Usually you’ll microwave agar combined with a buffer, then pour it into a mold for it to harder. Bacteria use it as a growing media and I’ve used it for electrophoresis

We add condensed milk and coconut milk. Also, try tang pineapple juice powder or any brand and coconut milk and sugar

put in some coconut milk and condense milk 😍😍 and the more liquid you have, the less it falls apart when bite but more of the firm jello texture. If you want, you can combine both agar agar with gelatine to your prefer texture

- Add pandan flavor and mix with to caramel drink or "samalamig". - Add pandan flavor mix with Halo-halo Use it like gelatin, layered flan etc.

Add sugar,lemon juice,almond extract,vanilla extract and oat or almond milk in a 1/4 ratio for something creamy and amazing.