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Beef gelatin. For use in regular and dietetic recipes. Collagen joint care. Pure protein. Kosher. Collagen Protein: Gelatin is an excellent source of protein, and cannot be recovered from hoofs, horn or non-collagen parts of vertebrate animals. There are
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143 of 143 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this gelatin, but i'm such a jello noob that i messed up the first time.
December 14, 2011
By Morgas
Amazon Verified Purchase
If it wasn't for a friend of mine who already used this product, i probably would of tossed it in the garbage after trying to use it the way the instructions suggest after the first time. So to help out anyone else, i'll post how i make jello here. I'll give you a quick recipe that i use to make cranberry juice jello.
2 cups juice (i use lakewood cranberry juice, but you can use any kind of clear juice you want).
2 tablespoons of great lakes gelatin
sugar to taste
a 3(or 4) cup pyrex container (a square or rectangular shaped one for the mold)
a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup (for blooming the gelatin and measuring).
i start off by mixing 1 cup of COLD juice with the 2 tablespoons of gelatin in the measuring cup.
keep mixing till all the gelatin has been mixed with the juice, don't leave any chunks.
then let sit for 5 mins. This will bloom the gelatin.
After the 5 mins, dump the cup of juice/gelatin into the square pyrex dish, and then clean your measuring cup, then pour
another cup of juice into your measuring cup. I then microwave this cup for 2 minutes (maybe another minute after i test it)
then take it out to measure the temperature. you want to try to get the liquid around 160F degrees. (should be pretty hot to the touch)
then i mix in the sugar to taste, then add the hot liquid to the cold, and mix it.
it should all be clear after you mix them together, and then i leave it sit on the counter for a few minutes,
then put it in the fridge. It takes a few hours to harden.
when i first tried to make this, i thought it was like other jello, where you mix it in with hot liquids.. which is a bad idea.. since you'll wind up with a wad of glue stuck onto your spoon. Then i tried to just mix it with cold water like the instructions said, but this never solidified. It turns out you have to mix with cold water, then apply hot water afterwards to activate it to harden.
i hope this helps someone.
************* Update *****************
here is a marshmallow recipe:
2 cups Sugar
2 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
3 tablespoons Gelatin (Great Lakes)
1 cup Water
Coconut Oil
directions:
mix 1/2 cup of water and 3 tbls. gelatin, let bloom for 20 minutes.
grease pyrex dish with coconut oil, and refrigerate to chill
place 2 cups of sugar in a pot with 1/2 cup of water. mix, and bring
to boil. heat sugar till it hits 245F.
using a kitchenaid mixer, add gelatin mixture to mixer bowl. (use wisk attachment.)
slowly add the sugar into the mixer on low speed.
once all sugar is added, increase to top speed.
Keep mixing for 5 minutes (until it becomes marshmallowy!)
at this point, add your vanilla or other flavorings.
quickly pour marshmallow into pyrex bowl, and let sit for several hours.
optional:
after it has sat, you can cut into squares and roll in powdered sugar (and cornstarch optional).
for chocolate marshmallows, i just use 2 tablespoons of chocolate extract, and 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Then powder it with a mix of cocoa powder and sugar.
sometimes i use coconut extract and use coconut flakes on the outside.
2 cups juice (i use lakewood cranberry juice, but you can use any kind of clear juice you want).
2 tablespoons of great lakes gelatin
sugar to taste
a 3(or 4) cup pyrex container (a square or rectangular shaped one for the mold)
a 2 cup pyrex measuring cup (for blooming the gelatin and measuring).
i start off by mixing 1 cup of COLD juice with the 2 tablespoons of gelatin in the measuring cup.
keep mixing till all the gelatin has been mixed with the juice, don't leave any chunks.
then let sit for 5 mins. This will bloom the gelatin.
After the 5 mins, dump the cup of juice/gelatin into the square pyrex dish, and then clean your measuring cup, then pour
another cup of juice into your measuring cup. I then microwave this cup for 2 minutes (maybe another minute after i test it)
then take it out to measure the temperature. you want to try to get the liquid around 160F degrees. (should be pretty hot to the touch)
then i mix in the sugar to taste, then add the hot liquid to the cold, and mix it.
it should all be clear after you mix them together, and then i leave it sit on the counter for a few minutes,
then put it in the fridge. It takes a few hours to harden.
when i first tried to make this, i thought it was like other jello, where you mix it in with hot liquids.. which is a bad idea.. since you'll wind up with a wad of glue stuck onto your spoon. Then i tried to just mix it with cold water like the instructions said, but this never solidified. It turns out you have to mix with cold water, then apply hot water afterwards to activate it to harden.
i hope this helps someone.
************* Update *****************
here is a marshmallow recipe:
2 cups Sugar
2 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
3 tablespoons Gelatin (Great Lakes)
1 cup Water
Coconut Oil
directions:
mix 1/2 cup of water and 3 tbls. gelatin, let bloom for 20 minutes.
grease pyrex dish with coconut oil, and refrigerate to chill
place 2 cups of sugar in a pot with 1/2 cup of water. mix, and bring
to boil. heat sugar till it hits 245F.
using a kitchenaid mixer, add gelatin mixture to mixer bowl. (use wisk attachment.)
slowly add the sugar into the mixer on low speed.
once all sugar is added, increase to top speed.
Keep mixing for 5 minutes (until it becomes marshmallowy!)
at this point, add your vanilla or other flavorings.
quickly pour marshmallow into pyrex bowl, and let sit for several hours.
optional:
after it has sat, you can cut into squares and roll in powdered sugar (and cornstarch optional).
for chocolate marshmallows, i just use 2 tablespoons of chocolate extract, and 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder. Then powder it with a mix of cocoa powder and sugar.
sometimes i use coconut extract and use coconut flakes on the outside.
128 of 132 people found the following review helpful
By lordloaf
Amazon Verified Purchase
This gelatin tastes NOTHING like the Knox or other varieties you can find in the grocery stores and this is a good thing since those taste like sludge for the most part, to be polite.
I drink one tablespoon dissolved in hot water to make a tea, twice a day. The taste is somewhere between neutral and pleasantly rich but in an extremely subtle way. I really enjoy drinking it in my teas unsweetened, although my housemates think I'm a freak for doing it, not that me filling the freezer with animal bones and organs and bee pollen and fermenting random stuff on the counter doesn't make me a freak already.
I originally bought this as a way to get more protein after reading what I now know was a quite quackery-laden blog post. Gelatin is NOT a complete protein. It's pretty much just proline and glycine, and has no tryptophan. So don't order for this purpose. However, if you're ordering to help your joints, skin, hair, cellulite, nails, etc. I think that this is the best you can buy.
I've been using it to get rid of cellulite (since it runs in my family) and it's a lot easier than constantly boiling bones and less gross than drinking bone broth at 7 am in the middle of the summer. And after doing this for a few weeks, my booty/thighs are looking shaa-weet! It's pretty crazy actually; I love this stuff.
I drink one tablespoon dissolved in hot water to make a tea, twice a day. The taste is somewhere between neutral and pleasantly rich but in an extremely subtle way. I really enjoy drinking it in my teas unsweetened, although my housemates think I'm a freak for doing it, not that me filling the freezer with animal bones and organs and bee pollen and fermenting random stuff on the counter doesn't make me a freak already.
I originally bought this as a way to get more protein after reading what I now know was a quite quackery-laden blog post. Gelatin is NOT a complete protein. It's pretty much just proline and glycine, and has no tryptophan. So don't order for this purpose. However, if you're ordering to help your joints, skin, hair, cellulite, nails, etc. I think that this is the best you can buy.
I've been using it to get rid of cellulite (since it runs in my family) and it's a lot easier than constantly boiling bones and less gross than drinking bone broth at 7 am in the middle of the summer. And after doing this for a few weeks, my booty/thighs are looking shaa-weet! It's pretty crazy actually; I love this stuff.
85 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I ordered this because I've been participating in a bone broth challenge, and we are encouraged to also use gelatin (which also naturally occurs in bone broth).
If you're thinking about buying this, I recommend visiting the company's website; it has a lot of really good information, plus a couple dozen recipes for using gelatin.
I was especially concerned about the MSG content, because I know that free glutamate typically occurs in gelatin. Great Lakes has a whole page about MSG, though, including lab results indicating free glutamate content, etc. It seems like a pretty safe product.
So far I've been making homemade jello with my Great Lakes Gelatin. Basically, what you do is heat up half a cup of fresh juice, add 2 Tablespoons of gelatin, and stir on low heat until it is totally dissolved. Then let it cool, and add it into a bowl containing 1 1/2 more cups of fresh juice. Stir until it is well combined, pour it into the container you want it in, and then let it set in the fridge for several hours. I made this recipe with fresh cherries and lemon, and I left pieces of fruit in it, and added raw honey to sweeten it a little--it has been wonderful!
Until I bought this I hadn't eaten jello in a long time because dessert jellos at the store usually have sweeteners, flavorings, colorings, etc that I avoid. I'm really enjoying this Great Lakes gelatin, though.
If you're thinking about buying this, I recommend visiting the company's website; it has a lot of really good information, plus a couple dozen recipes for using gelatin.
I was especially concerned about the MSG content, because I know that free glutamate typically occurs in gelatin. Great Lakes has a whole page about MSG, though, including lab results indicating free glutamate content, etc. It seems like a pretty safe product.
So far I've been making homemade jello with my Great Lakes Gelatin. Basically, what you do is heat up half a cup of fresh juice, add 2 Tablespoons of gelatin, and stir on low heat until it is totally dissolved. Then let it cool, and add it into a bowl containing 1 1/2 more cups of fresh juice. Stir until it is well combined, pour it into the container you want it in, and then let it set in the fridge for several hours. I made this recipe with fresh cherries and lemon, and I left pieces of fruit in it, and added raw honey to sweeten it a little--it has been wonderful!
Until I bought this I hadn't eaten jello in a long time because dessert jellos at the store usually have sweeteners, flavorings, colorings, etc that I avoid. I'm really enjoying this Great Lakes gelatin, though.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Paleo and loving this gelatin
i've added it to soup, i put it in warm water with lemon for a delicious little morning drink, i've made gummy snacks for the kids with it. It lives up to all the hype:)
Published 1 day ago by amarie2009
5.0 out of 5 stars
Give it a try. Really.
I was torn as to give this 4 or 5 stars, because, as some people have stated, the smell/taste can be a bit overwhelming. BUT! THERE IS A WAY AROUND IT! In a certain extent. Read more
Published 6 days ago by immabe
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good product but nasty
I like this product for what it does, however I can't stand the taste and how it swells and becomes gooey. I only drink it in teas and hot cereals. Read more
Published 12 days ago by VANESSA
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jooint problem
It has helped relieve my joint aches, also it has helped my lifeless hair and bad chipping of my nails
Published 14 days ago by Mary Toreson
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this gelatin.
I love this product, it doesn't have a taste to it like the other product I was using did. And, mixes easier too.
Published 14 days ago by Nancy C Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to use
I like this because it is easy to use, gives me the benefits of bone broth without the bother of cooking. Read more
Published 14 days ago by LS
5.0 out of 5 stars
healthy gelatin
I love the benefit's, protein,collagen ,good for bone's hair. great collagen joint care product. I take it with a drink, or you can get receipts on line :)
Published 18 days ago by mary dougherty
5.0 out of 5 stars
Had to try it a few times
After reading countless reviews about gelatin being so great for your hair, skin, nails, weight loss, cellulite, etc, I have been dying to try it... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Catuck
5.0 out of 5 stars
Haven't tried
I am going to start using this tomorrow..I have heard a lot of my friends and they love it a lot
Published 22 days ago by Shelly N. Schulstead
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent product
I love using this to thicken just about anything! great for adding protein too. I love the minimal waste packaging and that I can measure and use as much as I want! Read more
Published 23 days ago by Zknifer
