Yogurt Making

[kaitlinrachel]

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[findstarfish]

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[k8ykat]

Enjoy making your yogurt! This is going on my list of "things I would never consider doing"!

'cuz, um, what the heck does one do with 2 gallons of yogurt?

[kaitlinrachel]

Eat it:
- for breakfast
- for a snack
- as a dip for chips (mixed with salsa)
- for dinner if you're feeling lazy
- as a sauce for falafel

That said, if you told me a year ago that I would really love to make and eat plain yogurt, I'd probably stare blankly at you.

[k8ykat]

Also, I'm pretty sure that I'd die if I ate that much whole milk anything

[ladysaphira]

You don't eat it all at once silly!

It can be made with skim - but it doesn't have the richness (gee I wonder why?)

[ladysaphira]

I suspect heating it to 206F first is optional. A lot of older recipes have this - it's because milk didn't used to come pasturized. If you're buying your milk at a store then you can probably get away with just heating to 140. It'd save time!

It's interesting to note that homemade plain yogurt tastes MUCH better then storebought plain yougurt. It doesn't have the bitterness at all.

I have a little yogurt maker that holds the milk at the right temp in little cups - but it doesn't make nearly enough. My new technique is to mix a gallon of milk and a cup of yogurt in my biggest ceramic bowl, cover it with a lid, and leave it in the oven (which has a pilot light) for 24ish hours.

[kaitlinrachel]

The only storebought yogurt that I like is FAGE, but it's a little on the expensive side.

[ladysaphira]

I don't eat store bought yogurt any more. I'm eating Activa my mom gave me (no one at her house was eating it) and it's really no good - but I hate wasting food...