Help! I froze water kefir and smashed them to defrost

[carole1212]

Hallo! Please can anyone help.

I froze my kefir grains for about 7 weeks. I decided to reuse them 4 days ago but being impatient, I smashed the frozen ones with a wooden spoon to defrost quicker. As a result they are quite mushed up. I still went ahead and used them and 36 hours later they smell good and taste good......slight sourness and plenty of fizz. My question is are they still okay to be used as they really are quite smashed. I tried uploading a photo but the file size is too large.

Many thanks for any help

[AlexP]

I think it will be fine. The shape doesn't really matter and they should eventually rebuild back to their former glory after a few batches. I would go off the smell and taste and not worry about the size or shape.

Alex

[carole1212]

Thankyou.