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Where can I buy agar?

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  • 02-11-2009 11:15am
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    mrsmaths
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Hi everyone

    I am having a dinner party on Saturday and one of my friends is vegetarian so I need agar instead of gelatine for my cheesecake. Where can I buy this?

    Thanks :)


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    [Deleted User]
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    I know that you can definitly get it in Healthfood shops.
    Btw you rawk as a friend! Most people wouldn't think of this.


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    mrsmaths
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭mrsmaths


    Awww thanks moonbaby :o


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    sweet-rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,128 ✭✭✭sweet-rasmus


    Yeah, I've deffo seen it in Nourish on Wicklow street in town. Most health food stores should have it.


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    mrsmaths
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭mrsmaths


    Brilliant thank you! Good to have an exact place to go for it :)


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    Orby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Orby


    Agar flakes - Clearspring brand from any healthfood shops
    All asian stores do it in bar form - same as flakes just slightly different prep
    Agar powder - I've only ever seen in Asian supermarket on drury street- use 1Tbs of this for 3Tbs of agar flakes hth


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    Muffin top
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭Muffin top


    mrsmaths wrote: »
    Hi everyone

    I am having a dinner party on Saturday and one of my friends is vegetarian so I need agar instead of gelatine for my cheesecake. Where can I buy this?

    Thanks :)

    Fallon and Byrne sell it too, tried to make my own jelly with it........disaster! Carrageen is much better.


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    Thoushaltnot
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    Also, the Food Co-Op, in Newmarket, Dublin 8. The Clearspring box. They have Carrageen and Kudzu too.


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    rubadub
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    Asian shops as mentioned usually have flakes. I got mine powdered online from a microbiology supply store, it is cheap and good quality, but the shop is since closed I think. You can get it on ebay cheap enough I think. It is used in petri dishes for growing bacteria.


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