Junket!!

[The Search Engine]

This is a fascinating discussion. Gotta love Chemtalk. I bought junket powder last week - from IGA and yes from the cigarette counter. I was starting to wonder 'what the?' as well. Interestingly I let the teacher know how expensive it was and to use it sparingly - but his response was "We only do it once a year" and promptly used two containers of it plus all the junket tablets we had left! He obviously doesn't manage the budget!

Cheers,

Patti

[ellice]

Hey kids. forget the junket! This rennet stuff works a treat. I use 1mL to make a 1% soln (100mLs) and that keeps a class going for a lesson. That 20mLs for $5.50 was good value. And even better, it's working!!!

[Tina]

Dear Ellice
We have just done the milk and rennin prac.
We used treatments.
Control -10 ml milk.
Acidic - 75 ml milk and .25 ml vinegar
Basic - 1/2 tspn bicarb soda and made up with milk to 10 ml.
(all go in water bath of 35-40 degrees celcius)

The previous year we used 1/2 ml of vinegar to make milk acidic but it curdled too much. 1/4 ml vinegar in 10 ml milk did make it curdle slightly but you could see the difference between the enzyme and no-enzyme treatment. Teachers and students seemed happy enough with this.

Cheers
Tina

[joness]

Hi Everyone,

I have recently discovered Junket Tablets back on the shelf at my local Woolies, in the pudding section. I was previously ordering it from "simply junket". I heard people ringing in on a radio talk back show that they couldnt get junket anymore. Maybe the big supermarkets are listening to their customers. Check your local supermarkets again, you may be in luck.

[lada]

I, too use rennet and it works really well. I Keep a bottle in the fridge and dilute down to 1% when needed.
Have a great weekend.
Lada

[fibreweb]

We have just finished a practical Assessment task for the new Year 12 Bio using Junket. 3 classes.

Read that as 6 straight days of washing up over 50 beakers and 150 test tubes each day
Thank goodness for the new dishwasher

We use the "Simply Junket" powder and have found it a lot easier and more economical than tablets. If we had used the tablets we would have used at teast 150 tablets. I have measured the powder out into specimin jars, 0.7gm per jar (equal to 2 tablets) then add 50ml water and use 1ml per 10 ml substrate. It's a bit more concentrated then making junket but we get results quicker.

Wendy

[Satu11]

Where can I buy rennin or jucket tablets....I need it tommorrow.

[smiley]

Where are you in QLD? I buy junket from IGA here in Cairns. So, if I can get it up here, you must be able to get it further south. Hopefully!

[RosalieM]

Do a ring around all your local supermarkets and health food stores. Someone should have some to sell! Do a search on here for junket and you will find suppliers you can order from directly for future reference.

[Satu11]

Thanx for replying...I called my local IGA store and they said they have jucket powder so I will pick up today evening for tommorow pracs.

[rosaliemb]

In Alice springs I can buy Junket tablets at Coles, jelly section
Rosalie(another one)

[nahrein.yaghoubpour]

Hi everyone
I went looking for junket yesterday & my franklins did not have it & neither did my woolies.
Can you please help me?
Cheers
Nahrein

[Whspa]

Try a Health Food shop or you can order it online from Simply Junket.
Carol

[J]

Our local IGA has it and SPAR too I think.
Julie

[kimmy]

Our local IGA sells it. It had been taken off the shelves last year as I could not get it but I noticed it a few weeks ago so i got some just incase it goes off the shelves again.

KIMMY

[nahrein yaghoubpour]

Thank you i will check at IGA this afternoon
Nahrein

[merilyn]

I bought some in Coles just a few weeks ago.

[lurra]

I got the powder form from the company in SA when they first took it off the market way back when and it will out last me.

[Rita]

Hi All
Just been asked to prepare junket prac -temp. Never used junket before. I have been asked for a junket solution, beakers, test tubes,thermometers, water baths and no method. Needed in half an hour.
My question is for this prac "Should the junket solution be one tablet dissolved in 1 tbsp cold water? OR one tablet dissolved in 1 tbsp cold water and warm milk?" as on packet instructions.
Can get milk from canteen and already have tablets.
Please help!

[RosalieM]

I just use cold water. The prac requires them to use it at different temp so if you make it too warm it changes the results for the cold temp experiment. Actually, sometimes I just give them the powder and they mix it up as a class solution in a 50ml beaker. They only need a few drops each in each test tube of milk.