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You’ve purchased our Raw Sea moss, but now what? How do you prepare it, how do you consume it?

We will show you how to prepare sea moss gel from scratch with minimal hassle or fuss.

Preparing Sea Moss is as simple as washing it, soaking it, and then blending it.

Sea moss picks up fibers from transportation in yarn or hemp sacks. Sea moss is also harvested at the seaside, so it contains sand and other bits of seaweed which need to be washed away.

When you wash seaweed that has been dried it will typically soak up some of the water it is being washed in. The lower the moisture content at the time of washing, the higher the volume of water it is likely to absorb. It’s a bit like a sponge.

What you will need:

• Pure, Distilled or Filtered water – 3 liters is typically enough to create one jar, (1 liter for washing, 1 liter for soaking, a little bit of water for blending)
• Bowl for soaking – should have an air-tight cover or lid
• Glass jar for storing the gel
• Blender

How do I Prepare my Sea Moss?

This is a 3 step process:

• Wash it
• Soak it
• Blend it

Wash the Sea moss

Use purified or distilled water to wash your sea moss – this eliminates the possibility of adding contaminants during the washing process.

How much sea moss should I use?

Sea moss swells up to around 6 times its size during the soaking process so you only need half a pack of Raw sea moss to make 2 weeks worth of gel. This is perfect, since sea moss gel lasts just over 2 weeks in the fridge.

• Grab half a bag (or a bit less, if you don’t want a thick consistency) of raw sea moss and separate out all the yarn fibers.
• Place it in a bowl of distilled water and agitate with your fingers to remove all sand and salt.
• Replace the water in the bowl and rinse again.
• Repeat until no more sand or salt washes off the sea moss. (This typically takes 2 – 3 washes)

Choose water that is filtered if you can. If not, bottled water may be your next best option. You want to do this to avoid soaking up chemicals that may be present in tap water.

Make sure you get as much of the sand, salt, and other impurities off your Sea Moss as you can in this stage. I normally agitate the seaweed in the water aggressively. With how dry our Sea Moss is I can be quite rough without worrying about it breaking or quickly turning into mush.

Soak the sea moss

Immerse your sea moss in a small to medium sized bowl using clean distilled/filtered/purified water.

Ensure the sea moss is completely immersed – add a little cling-wrap over the top if you have trouble keeping the sea moss under the water.

How long should I soak it?

This process can take up to 24 hours. The sea moss will continue to soak up water until it hits saturation, at which point it will become squishy. Please limit your soaking time to between 24 to 36 hours as this allows the sea moss to rehydrate fully without overhydrating it and changing the texture of the sea moss – it becomes mushy after 48 hours.

Blend the sea moss

Now that the soaking is complete, the blending process can begin.

The first thing you’ll notice is how the sea moss has swelled up to over 6 times its original size.

Sea moss expands to over 6 times its volume when rehydrated.

This is completely normal – sea moss undergoes a drying process which removes water, shrinks the sea moss and reduces both the shipping volume and weight.

Since sea moss gel only lasts roughly 2 weeks under refrigeration, this drying process is crucial to ensure a long shelf life – dehydrated Sea moss lasts over 2 years in the unopened pouch.

Take your Sea Moss out of the water it has been soaking in. I prefer to place the soaked seaweed in a colander and giving it a final rinse in clean filtered water before putting it in the blender.

This helps to get rid of anything that might be on the surface that has since become removable as the it has softened with the soaking.

The process is as follows:

• Throw sea moss into blender
• Cover with distilled/purified/filtered water

When blending, don’t add too much water in the first instance, simply ensure the sea moss is covered with water. You may need to press the ‘blend’ or ‘power’ button a few times during this stage. Add water as you go, bit by bit, until you get the thickness (viscosity) that you want.

You will notice the sea moss becomes grainy when blended, your aim is to blend the sea moss until it reaches your desired consistency.

Make sure you scrape down the walls of your blender between bursts to get the smoothest gel.

Each time that you make a batch you will figure out how much water you want to add. It is something of an art form. The less water you add the thicker and more jelly-like the mix will be. This will also thicken up when refrigerated.

Conclusion

Now that you have your blended sea moss gel, transfer it into your storage jar and place it in the refrigerator, don’t worry – it takes less than 2 hours to set correctly.

Make sure to store the sea moss gel in the refrigerator, it will stay fresh for just over 2 weeks.

You are free to enjoy 1 or 2 tablespoons per day.

Add water if the sea moss gel is too thick for your liking – as always, ensure you use filtered/distilled or purified water.

There are plenty of recipes which incorporate sea moss into the ingredient list, be sure to let us know about your own amazing creations.