Comments on: How to make popping boba at home – Lovely Brusting Boba DIY

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:32:45 +0000

In reply to Cathy Remus. Cathy, You will need to add more juice. One possible reason is the water content in the juice is not high enough. So adding a little bit water or more juice can change your position.

By: Cathy Remus

Cathy Remus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:28:47 +0000

I followed the instructions exactly but the juice and sodium alginate mixture was very thick and goopy kind of like pudding but gluey. It would not go through the dropper at all and I wound up having to spoon it out which resulted in big globs. It also did not taste like the juice I used but kind of chemically. Should I use either more juice or cut back on the sodium alginate?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:13:15 +0000

In reply to Annie. Annie, It can make around 10 cups of milk tea.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:38:45 +0000

Hi, how many servings does this make? Thanks.

By: Person

Person — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:53:55 +0000

In reply to Jane. Try leaving them in the calcium lactate for less time? (Also did you mix cold water with the calcium lactate?)

By: Person

Person — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:50:11 +0000

In reply to Mammy. Weird, when I tried it it did not work but then I realized I had a different type of calcium lactate and that worked... I think you might have not used pure calcium lactate or pure sodium alginate.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:52:18 +0000

In reply to Remi. Yes, but the ratio of calcium chloride to water must be increased to 30 to 1

By: Remi

Remi — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:49:27 +0000

Can I use calcium chloride instead of calcium lactate

By: MommyDani

MommyDani — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:15:18 +0000

In reply to DenverNerd. Hi DenverNerd, I also tried and the juice/sodium mix was way too thick. WE have to cut down a lot, I kept adding plain juice to the thick mix until we got a somehow more liquidy mix, and used that. It worked for the watermelon, like 2 more cups of Juice to the original 200ml. We tried using Mango Goya juice, that always got too thick, I don't think it is a good juice to use, I used almost the entire box of juice to half of the original mix and it was still thick,it just kept emulsifying. The girls enjoyed very big bobas with that one.