US Boba 39.6lb (6.6lb X 6) Tapioca Pearl Bubble Tea Made in USA for Milk Tea Coffee Shaved Ice Topping USA 39.6 Pound

I haven't liked these in the past, because they are very delicate/crumbly and take time to cook. 1 hr (25 minutes cooking, 25 min cooling)But! I recently bought a different brand that had silicone resin as an ingredient. Ew! Other brands may be easy to cook, but they are not better for you.US Boba are made of safe ingredients, and have a pleasant brown sugar smell. The texture is chewy and good. Once I learned to be gentle handling them, they turned out a lot better. I do have to baby them, and break up the ones stuck together. I cook them early in the day, and then I have them ready for milk tea later on.

I have never seen such a thing, as if the coating of a normal Boba was turned into a ball itself! Crumbles to the touch. Within 30 seconds of cooking, Boba shrinks to 2/3 the size, a gummy-boba-like texture. Within 120 seconds Boba shrinks (DISSOLVES) down to 1/4th the size and do not have a bouncey bite, but rather a gummy one.

I see a lot of people talking about the crumbling - I get that, mine crumbled too after about a year in my pantry.Because these are more natural ingredients!I know now that I should not leave them in the pantry for so long. The first time I cooked these they were perfect and had great taste.They're meant to be consumed; not stored. 😘

I think these were ok but there was a small hole in the bag and some of the bobas were totally crushed so it was like half powder. I didn't know if the hole had anything to do with that. I boiled some to see, I had to pick out some whole ones from among the broken crusted ones, and I cooked them. They tasted fine but it was hard to separate out from the dissolved ones and broken ones which was almost half the bag. I suspect if you get a bag without a hole, and not all crushed up they would be very good. They seem to have good flavor and texture.

First time with these boba pearls. I usually make my own without any artificial ingredients and have zero problems. We wanted to try these as I don’t have a lot of time to make my own anymore. The smell is good, like caramel popcorn. But, it has that chemical smell, too. That should have been a red flag, that smell. They cook up nicely. Easy instructions. Texture is good and they flow easily up a big straw. Unfortunately, they seem to have a couple toxic ingredients that didn’t set well with us. First, we noticed serious bloat after eating them. I understand tapioca is starchy, but my homemade pearls never bloated us up this bad. It lasted for hours and was seriously uncomfortable. Second, one of the chemicals, or both, kept us up all night. We felt anxious and still bloated from earlier. The caramel color and brown sugar flavor are the two chemicals in question. I won’t buy these again and will throw out the rest of the lot. Waste of money.

I spent probably 2 hours deciding which boba to buy and I’m SO happy I went with this one!For delivery: Mine came air vacuumed, heavily bubble wrapped, in a tough box. Not dent or bump on it. Plus it came with a note saying it is fragile and if it was damaged to let them know and they will replace it!For preparing: It’s amazing if you follow instructions. Here’s my detailed advice for perfect boba:Make sure to boil enough water and make sure it’s a heavy rolling boil. Make sure to use a bigger pot because you want it hot so a lot of the water boils out. Carefully get it out of the package and add it in.THEY DO EXPAND. Don’t add too much or you’ll waste some- my first attempt I did enough for 5 people to be have almost too much.Add in little by little. (I do it with a spoon). Stir!! I set my Alexa timer and stir every 3-5 minutes- make sure they don’t stick. The initial one when you put it in stops them from clumping. Sometimes I boil it an extra 2-3 minutes. One last stir.Cover. Like rice- you don’t want to let the heat or steam escape. Stir good, cover, then remove from heat. Set another timer 25-30 minutes. Leave it alone.Put in a small strainer. Rinse with cold water until the gel it creates is gone. Rinse for 1-2 minutes while swooshing it in circles. I use my sprayer to get it a little harder and speed it up.They are not sweet. If you want to add some sweetness to it and make them even softer keep going.Rinse your pan well and wipe it out. Add it cool water and dissolve sugar in it. I add it a good amount (think koolaid) because it needs it to absorb the flavor. Add your boba back in. Lit sit for 30 minutes to an hour depending your taste.I make chai at this point (I found some instant vanilla chai that is amazing with it - big train vanilla chai- stir it well with milk; still looking for other flavors)Once the time is up you add it in with a spoon and make sure to drain out the sugar water.Add in your boba straw and your set.It takes a while and we don’t always do the second soak but I add some time to the first one then.TLDR; don’t rush, treat it like rice with the resting it after. A second soak in sugar water makes it sweeter and softer!

US boba has better texture and cleaner ingredients than the "red package 5 minute boba". However, the US boba balls are really hard to cook without having them crumble or all stick together. You need to gently stir every minute for the first 5 minutes, and then every 5 minutes after that (for an hour).To solve this problem, I got an electric pot stirrer (specifically StirMate). Now I just set it and forget. It is as easy as cooking rice in a rice cooker. One hour later, I have perfectly soft boba with zero clumping. Highly recommend this approach if you make boba often.

It tastes okay and the texture once cooked is fine, but I buy and cook boba a lot and have never had it turn into bean soup or refried beans before. It doesn't look right even once properly prepared and half the package is wasted because it's all crushed up into powder or pieces, plus the boba as it is normally cooked dissolves much more than most boba I've made. You get very little edible round boba. More mush or clots of gummy starch. I won't buy it again and it isn't cool that I can't ask for a refund or return.