Where can I buy agar?

mrsmaths

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

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

mrsmaths

Awww thanks moonbaby

sweet-rasmus

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

mrsmaths

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

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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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.

Thoushaltnot

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

rubadub

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.