myslashdotusername's Journal: Putting this here becuase people are proabbly sick of...

Hearing me talk about stevia.

Anyways, here's my current primary recipie for kool-aid made with stevia.

1 packet 'unsweetened' kool-aid (any flavor)

3/16ths a cup of sugar. (yes i know, but stevia doesn't counter the 'tartening agents' added to koolaid to make it counteract the sweetness of sugar.)

3 1 gram packets of nutrasweet (I am not whatever the warning is, and SMALL quantities of nutrasweet are OK like 1 can of soda's worth of nutrasweet per day == OK, which is a LOT more than the equivalency of 3 packets)*

3/4 tsp 'liquid' stevia extract. I've got a 90% pure stevocide liquid concentrate, that uses glycern to stabilize the stevocides... so if your stevia isn't that pure adujst quantity accordingly.

Add all ingredient, and fill with water to 3 qt line (I'm using a 1 gallon containter)

If you're using a 2qt container, drop stevia to 1/2 a TSP and adjust other sweetners according to preference. using more than 1/4 a tsp of stevia per qt of water will result in a noticable bitter edge (although it will still gain in sweetness until you approx double the amount of stevia). You may like it, I don't, not when kool-ait already has tarners. I prefer to use the 'safe' amount of stevia, to reduce the need for 'other' sweetners.

This is just the recipie i follow, it is by no means the end all recipie for making koolaid from stevia. In fact the recipie used the 'equivalent' of roughly a cup of sweertner for 3 quarts of koolaid, almost 33% below what it 'should' take to make 3 quarts of koolain and it uses 33% flavorings too. (1 tsp of stevia is equivalent to roughly 1 cup of sugar, 3 grams of nutrasweet is equvalent to 1/8 a cup of sugar according to the box so with the real sugar we're at 1-1/16ths cups of sugar equivalency)

another one of my goals is to make dark chocolate with only stevia as a sweetner :) mmm...

*= Again, because tartening agents blah. (note if you can find pure fruit extracts, with no alchohols you're on the road to making your own 'stevia juice' with no need for anything BUT stevia, however the only ones i can find are 'lemon' and 'lime' and are full of preservatives and are meant to be the equivalent to full strenth juices.. of course koolaid has preservatives and usually has artifical colors too... and lemon and lime are tart (but taste good that way)