How to make yogurt every which way. Instructions for Instant Pot, stovetop & making yogurt in a dehydrator. And NOPE. This doesn't mean I now like my Instant Pot. Plus a new trick for thickening it that I learned in the past month.
Don't want to read my witty entertaining babbling? Skip right to the recipe.
I started making my own yogurt because of my imaginary world. This is the world many of us let our minds wander to when we should be thinking about insurance rates, mutual funds or other gross things.
In my imaginary world I'm usually at the cottage (that I don't own) and everyone is gathered around when we all realize, much to our horror, that we don't have any butter, or bread or ... in this case ... yogurt. "Everybody calm the hell down.", I say, my arms outstretched, palms facing the ground, in the internationally known gesture of "calm the hell down". "We have whipping cream, flour, yeast and milk. We've got this."
Butter as you know is made by shaking whipping cream.
Bread is made with flour, water, salt and yeast.
And Yogurt ... is made with milk. (And a little bit of yogurt. But that ruins imaginary world where I miraculously produce yogurt with just milk. So.)
Therefore years ago I started making my own so if I ever own a cottage and am ever stranded there with a group of starved people that I need to impress, I will be able to impress them.
Table of Contents
Yogurt Facts that'll make your head spin
(not really, it's remarkably dull actually)
- You can use whole, 2%, 1% or skim milk. The higher the fat percentage the more calories.
- Do not use ultra pasteurized milk.
- To "activate" your yogurt, you need 2 Tablespoons of plain yogurt with active cultures. Just look for the words probiotic or active cultures. Some people have had success using sour cream in a pinch as an activator/starter.
So the Instant Pot. The gadget I love to hate. There are two things it can do well. Make a small batch of chili and make yogurt. It's more complicated than just doing it on the stove. But it does work and has some pros to it.
However, I know a lot of you love your Instant Pots so I thought I'd better show you how to make it in the Instant Pot because 1) the instructions that come with the Instant Pot for almost everything are useless and 2) even online instructions for making yogurt in it don't cover the little things.
If you INSIST on buying an Instant Pot, even if you're only cooking for one, make sure you get one that's at least 6 quarts.
The process is the same no matter what you're using to make it.
The Basic Process
- Heat milk (to 180°F)
- Cool milk (to 115°F)
- Add starter culture (yogurt)
- Keep at 115°F (for 8 hours)
Here's how to accomplish that with an Instant Pot.
Instant Pot Method
THE HEATING PHASE
- Pour 2 litres (½ gallon) of milk into the inner pot. I use 1% but you can use any kind.
- Lock the lid on.
- Turn the vent to "sealing". (although I've forgotten this step before and my yogurt still turned out fine.)
- Press "Yogurt" button then,
- Press "Adjust" button. The light will switch to "more" and the word "boil" will show up.
- Wait. The Instant Pot does its thing for 35-40 minutes, heating the milk to 180° F.
- "Yogt" will show up on the display when it's done.
- Remove the lid. CHECK THE TEMPERATURE. After this part is done my yogurt is NEVER at 180° F. It gets to 175. So I put the lid on and restart the process of hitting "Yogurt" then "Adjust" to boil again until it registers as being 180° F.
- NEW TRICK below ⇓ (I learned this from Team Yogurt)
- Keep the yogurt at 180° F for 5 minutes. To do this, Press "Yogurt" then "Adjust" again. This will keep the unit warm enough to keep the yogurt at 180° F. Leave it like this for 5 minutes. Don't put the lid back on. (doing this helps to make it thicker)
- Press "Cancel" at the end of 5 minutes.
THE COOLING PHASE
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Unplug the Instant Pot. Remove the inner pot and either let it rest on the counter until the temperature drops down to 115° F, OR put the pot in a cold water bath in your sink. This speeds up the cooling time a LOT. (instead of taking half an hour it will only take a few minutes, so keep an eye on it)
THE INOCULATION PHASE
- Put 2 tablespoons of yogurt (with active cultures) into a bowl and then temper it with a ladle of the hot milk and stir. This just makes it easier to disperse the yogurt through the entire pot.
- Pour bowl of yogurt/milk mixture into the inner pot of the Instant Pot and stir.
- Set the inner pot back into the unit.
THE INCUBATION PHASE
- Push the Yogurt button. Add or subtract with the (+) key until you reach a minimum of 8 hours. You can also let it go for 11 hours for tangier yogurt. You can even let it go longer than 11 hours for tangier yogurt. I often incubate my yogurt for 12 hours or more.
- At the end of your cycle "Yogt" will appear on the display and it's done.
- Pour off the whey from the top (or scoop it out with a spoon) and put the yogurt in mason jars or other glass containers.
** For extra thick Greek yogurt, strain the yogurt as shown in the straining method below.
Making it on the stovetop is simpler and has FAR fewer steps.
Stovetop Method
- Heat 2 litres (½ gallon) of milk in a pot on the stove until it reaches 180° F.
- Turn the heat off, put the lid on and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- Cool the milk to 115°F on the counter or in a cool water bath in the sink.
- Mix together some hot milk with 2 Tablespoons of yogurt to thin the yogurt then add the mixture to the rest of the hot milk. Stir.
- Pour into a good thermos (one that will retain the heat) and wait 8-11 hours. (or follow Dehydrator instructions)
**If you don't have a thermos then pour the hot milk into mason jars and store them in a good quality cooler wrapped in towels for 8-11 hours.
Yup. That's it. In my opinion this is much easier and faster than fiddling with the erratic behaviour of an Instant Pot.
The drawback is if you forget your milk on the stove while heating it, it can boil over.
Dehydrator Method
To make yogurt in a dehydrator, you're not really using the dehydrator for anything other than holding the yogurt at temperature.
Follow the stove top method up until the part where you hold the yogurt at 115°F for 8-11 hours. Instead of putting it in a cooler or thermos you can hold it at temperature perfectly with your dehydrator.
- Follow steps 1-4 for stovetop yogurt.
- Turn the dehydrator on and set it to 115°F
- Pour hot milk into glass mason jars. Screw on lids.
- Remove trays from dehydrator and place the jars inside.
- Set the dehydrator timer (if it has one) for 8-11 hours.
Straining to Thicken
- Dump your incubated yogurt into a sieve lined with cheese cloth or a flour sack tea towel set over a bowl or pot.
- Let drain for up to an hour or until it has reached the consistency you like.
- After 1 hour around 4 cups of whey will have drained away, leaving you with 4 cups of Greek yogurt.
When the process has finished its 8 hours of incubating it will have a lot of whey in it. That's the liquid stuff you see on top of yogurt or sour cream that you buy at the store sometimes.
Straining willt get rid of most of the whey resulting in a thicker, higher calorie yogurt. If you like it thinner you don't need to strain; just pour off the bit of whey on top and you're good.
YIELD: NOT STRAINING VS STRAINING
- Unstrained yogurt will get you the same amount of yogurt as milk used. 8 cups of milk will result in 8 cups of yogurt!
- Strained yogurt will get you thicker yogurt, but less yield. 8 cups of milk will result in 4 cups of greek yogurt.*
*the exact yield depends on how long you strain it and how much whey you remove.
Unstrained has a similar consistency to a very soft jello.
Straining is how you get that thick, Greek style yogurt.
Strained is so thick it will sit high on the spoon and even stick to it when you turn the spoon over.
I love a big spoonful of plain, tart Greek yogurt, but there are times I want to have something a little more dessert or breakfast like. THOSE are the times for toppings.
Topping Ideas
- Jam (Strawberry, raspberry, apricot etc. etc.)
- Nuts
- Granola
- Canned fruit
- Chia seeds
- Bananas
- Coconut Flakes
- Chocolate Chips
- Cocoa powder
- Honey
- Maple Syrup
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Poppyseeds
- Orange slices
- Mashed sweet potato
- Lemon zest
- Brown sugar
- Apple sauce
- Cookie crumbs
How to make Yogurt.
Ingredients
- 2 litres milk (whole, 2%, 1% or skim)
- 2 tablespoon active yogurt plain
Instructions
Instant Pot Yogurt
- Pour 2 litres (½ gallon) of milk into the inner pot. I use 1% but you can use any kind.
- Lock the lid on.
- Turn the vent to "sealing". (although I've forgotten this step before and my yogurt still turned out fine.)
- Press "Yogurt" button then,
- Press "Adjust" button. The light will switch to "more" and the word "boil" will show up.
- Wait. The Instant Pot does its thing for 35-40 minutes, heating the milk to 180° F.
- "Yogt" will show up on the display when it's done.
- Remove the lid. CHECK THE TEMPERATURE. After this part is done my yogurt is NEVER at 180° F. It gets to 175. So I put the lid on and restart the process of hitting "Yogurt" then "Adjust" to boil again until the yogurt registers as being 180° F.
- Keep the yogurt at 180° F for 5 minutes. To do this, Press "Yogurt" then "Adjust" again. This will keep the unit warm enough to keep the yogurt at 180° F. Leave it like this for 5 minutes. Don't put the lid back on.
- Press "Cancel" at the end of 5 minutes.
- Unplug the Instant Pot. Remove the inner pot and either let it rest on the counter until the temperature drops down to 115° F, OR put the pot in a cold water bath in your sink. This speeds up the cooling time a LOT. (instead of taking half an hour it will only take a few minutes, so keep an eye on it)
- Put 2 tablespoons of yogurt (with active cultures) into a bowl and then temper it with a ladle of the hot milk and stir. This just makes it easier to disperse the yogurt through the entire pot.
- Pour bowl of yogurt/milk mixture into the inner pot of the Instant Pot and stir.
- Set the inner pot back into the unit.
- Push the Yogurt button. Add or subtract with the (+) key until you reach a minimum of 8 hours. You can also let it go for 11 hours for tangier yogurt. At the end of your cycle "Yogt" will appear on the display and it's done.
- Pour off the whey from the top (or scoop it out with a spoon) and put the yogurt in mason jars or other glass containers.
Stovetop Yogurt
- Heat your milk in a saucepan over medium heat to 180 F (almost boiling, this happens quickly).
- Remove pan from heat and allow milk to cool to 115 F. This will take around 30 minutes on the counter or a few minutes in a cool water bath in your sink.
- Once the milk is at 115 degrees add some hot milk to a bowl with 2 tablespoons of yogurt in it and incorporate. Add this mixture to your pot of hot milk.
- Now your job is to keep this concoction at 115 degrees for the next 8 hours. There are a few ways to do this.
- Pour your milk mixture into a mason jar (or similar) with lid and place the entire jar into a small cooler filled with warm water. Leave for 8 - 11 hours. OR ...
- Pour your milk mixture into a good thermos, wrap it in a towel and leave it for 8 hours.
- Your yogurt is now done. Store it in glass jars and refrigerate. (If you want you can strain it to make it thicker.) Straining instructions in notes.
Dehydrator Yogurt
- Follow steps 1-3 for stovetop yogurt.
- Turn on the dehydrator and set to 115°F.
- Pour yogurt into serving sized mason jars for convenience (or use full sized mason jars).
- Set the jars into the dehydrator and allow to incubate for 8-11 hours.
Notes
- The longer you let the yogurt incubate the more tart it will be.
- 2 litres of milk will make 8 cups of yogurt.
- For extra thick Greek yogurt, strain the yogurt after it has set by pouring it into a cheesecloth lined sieve over a bowl. In about an hour 4 cups of whey will have drained out leaving you with an incredibly thick remaining 4 cups of yogurt.
- If your oven goes as low as 115°F then you can set the jars of yogurt in the oven for 8-11 hours as well to incubate it.
Nutrition
How healthy is homemade yogurt?
Really good natural yogurt is way more accessible now than it ever was. There was a time that the only yogurt you could buy was yogurt with premixed fruit and about a pound of sugar per serving.
Homemade has no sugar and no additives. Adding these two things will decrease the health benefits of this lively culture.
Homemade concoctions can be sweetened with honey, maple syrup or agave and you can add fresh fruit like peaches or strawberries as well.
By making your own you're controlling what milk it is you use to create it. Even some of the best brands of yogurt don't use the best milk and often come from cows that have been fed grain (GMO corn or soy). That means when you get that store bought healthy seeming yogurt you're actually consuming GMOs through the milk of the cow. If that's the sort of thing that worries you then homemade really is your best choice.
THOUGHTS ON WHICH IS THE BEST WAY
If I were in some sort of battle that required I choose only ONE method to make yogurt for the rest of my life what would it be?
A combination of the stovetop method for the initial heating and cooling and then finishing it in a dehydrator.
Debbie
@Melissa L., I have heard that the crock pot will work, but haven't tried it that way.
You can use that drained off whey for other fermented foods or drinks. A friend of mine uses it to make ginger ale!
Meagan
Wow I'm so impressed! I eat a large amount of yogurt each day and admittedly I'm pretty picky about the kind of Greek yogurt I eat (they just don't all taste the same to me). Have you been tweaking this recipe with amounts/types of ingredients to get it just so or is there room for experimentation here to see if different tastes/textures are possible?
Karen
Megan - The longer your let it sit at 115 for, and the thicker you make it ... the tangier it is. ~ karen
Tisha
I make yogurt in the crockpot, I eat so much of it that it's way cheaper to do it this way. Here's the method I use:
1 gallon 2% milk
1 cup plain yogurt
Put milk in crockpot on low for 3 hours.
Turn off crockpot and let sit for 3 hours.
Stir in plain yogurt and whisk to mix it in well.
Cover and wrap crockpot in large towel overnight.
In the morning, start the straining process. I strain it a little longer than 1-2 hours, just a personal preference. This makes quite a bit of yogurt but it's ohsogooood.
Karen
Tisha - The reason you're straining longer is because you're recipe is larger. It probably just takes longer to get to the same consistency. Yes? ~ karen
Tisha
Yes that's probably true, I also like it to be super thick, it's practically cream cheese when I'm done straining. Well, not quite that thick, but thicker than Chobani or some other store bought Greek yogurt.
Samanatha
I love the crock pot method! My son thinks it's funny I have to go buy yogurt to make yogurt. He says just eat what you buy. :) He is 14. He doesn't get it. Why does yogurt have a red wiggly line under it when I type it? Is there an international way to spell it that I'm missing? Yoghurt? Yoguhrt? Yogourt!! This one has no wiggly red line. hm.
Angie S
After reading the "Yoghurt? Yoguhrt? Yogourt!! I expected some sort of milk monster to appear! :) It made me laugh.
Angie S
I forgot the second quaotation mark around the "Yoghurt? Yoguhrt? Yogourt!!". Please forgive me.
Wayne
I like flavored yogurts, but not yogurt that is on the sour side.
This sounds like an easy thing to try.
How long does this homeade yogurt keep?
How would you compare store-bought greek style to homemade?
Tks....
Karen
Hi Wayne - Homemade yogurt keeps about as long as store bought. A week to two in the fridge. I would say that store bought Greek and homemade taste pretty much the same. And store bought yogurt sometimes has a graininess to it that homemade doesn't. With homemade you have a tiny amount of control over how tangy it is. The longer you keep it sitting at the heated temperature the more tang it will have. And also with homemade yogurt of course, you control how thick it is. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much you drain it. Plus it's just fun to make. ~ karen!
Audrey
You are taking me right back to the sixties, Karen. Making yogurt and growing vegetables. A good thing, as dear old Martha would say!
Karol
I guess you'd have to like yogurt to want to make yogurt. For me, the only good yogurt is frozen.
charissa
While I admit I do in fact like yoghourt, I've also used homemade yoghourt to make fro-yo. It's creamier than the storebought stuff, and you can make whatever flavour you like : )
adrienne
Yay! This is what I was searching the comments for! :) Thanks.
Susan Claire
Karol, you are absolutely right! I have tried for years to like yogurt, but I just can't. Maybe it's that acidic tang, but I just can't get it down. Slather it in sugar and chocolate, freeze it, and put it in a cone, and I'm all over it.
Alice
I mix 1 1/3 cups skim milk powder with enough warm (baby bath temperature) tap water to make 3 cups "thick" milk, then mix in a tablespoon or two of live yogurt. I put the jar in the oven (gas oven with pilot light) to incubate. It takes a little longer than at a higher temperature, but it usually works. I've even made a little sign to hang on the oven to remind me not to turn it on.
Elizabeth
You forgot to say - keep the whey. And use it in bread and pancakes, a smoothie, whatever.
Pam
You can water your plants with the whey if you don't use it for yourself.
Linda J Howes
Hey Pam, do you mean houseplants. Would it not smell over time?
Elaine
Really, Pam? Or are you joking? (Is she joking, Karen?)
Beth
Pam should be joking because you can only use sweet whey on plants. Yogurt whey is acid whey (or any dairy whey is acid, really). See uses for whey here: http://dontwastethecrumbs.com/2014/05/36-ways-to-use-whey-and-5-ways-to-make-it/.
Elaine
Thanks, Beth. I will check out the info later today.
Pam
Just dilute with water. Don't use full strength. Also, left over black coffee can be also diluted with water for plants. Google it.
Deborah Flanagan
I've conquered ricotta, time to move on to yogurt. Thanks for the tutorial.
Dru
we make yogurt from the milk from our grass fed, rotational grained, hand milked Jersey cow. We take the cream off the top for ice cream and cream for coffee, and of course crime brûlée. Then the richest yogurt with what is left: the cooler works wonderfully...although people always ask if we sleep with the yogurt...another way to keep it warm for 6-8 hours.
Birdie
I make yogurt often and have a tip for you. After you seal the jars put them in the oven over night with the oven light on. It works like a charm every time!
Birdie
BTW, I put the jars close to the light - in my case they are all crowded in the corner.
Birdie
I make yogurt all the time and I've got a heating tip for you. Put the jars in the oven over night with the oven light on (no pre-heating). I put the jars close to the light so they get the most heat. Works like a charm every time!
Meg
This just made my brain fuzzy. And then crystal clear. And then fuzzy again: this is kind of the idea behind sourdough bread, too, right? Keep a little jar of it, keep feeding it..... I mean... are there OTHER foods you can make in the same idea? I know beer takes more work/fermenting... but now I'm trying to come up with other foods we spend too much money on buying, when they could literally just make *themselves* ?!?! I mean, what's sour cream made of? How about buttermilk? What other ridiculous food treasures are out there waiting to grow into more food?!!
Jess
I looked up a recipe for sour cream once, it said something like, pour milk in jar. Leave on counter for 24 hours and that was the end. lol
Laura Bee
For a buttermilk substitite just add a tbsp of lemon juice to a cup of milk & let sit 5 minutes. That's what I do, because I usually only need that much for a recipe. For drinking(?) I'm not sure how that would taste.
Megan
Meg, you are my kind of girl! Discovering that I could make ricotta rocked my world- you can make virtually any dairy product at home- yogurt, ricotta, cream cheese, paneer (cheese), yogurt cheese... the list goes on! And always save your whey (it can be frozen!), and use it when you bake bread! Or put it in a protein shake.
I hope your world just got rocked.
Karen
Megan - Good to know about freezing the whey. The fella makes whey protein powder smoothies every morning. ~ karen!
kate
Oh, cool! freeze the whey into the ice-cube tray and use the ice-whey cubes to make the smoothy! Wow! Good recipe(s) and a lot of helpful comments, too.
Wyldwomyn
Try Kombucha or Kefir. Both are fermented, both are delicious and pretty cheap to make. You can also make sauerkraut by fermentation. Happy Brewing!
nancy
Many years ago I made yogurt and sourdough starter and my Dad said you didn't have to get milk really hot unless you were using raw milk. (Scalding is what he called it.) So I just made these with warm milk. The more skim milk you use the more sour it gets. Now I am WAYYYYY too lazy, I go to the store and buy it.
What I like is to get the cheapest plain yogurt and strain it through cheese cloth, it's super thick. Greek yogurt tastes bitter to me but this is good. Also, you can save the whey you strained and use it instead of plain water to make bread. Yea, I used to do that also.....
Karen
Nancy - I'm not a scientist or expert yogurt maker or anything, but heating the milk to 180 is necessary in order to change the structure of the milk. The protein specifically. By scalding the milk you get a thicker yogurt. (and also that temperature will kill any bacteria that may happen to be in the milk that could grow in your starter) ~ karen
nancy
well, that makes sense, my Dad actually told me that about making bread and I extrapolated it to all warm milk things. Also I meant Drain the yogurt not Strain it.
Kansas
I love homemade yogurt and make it quite regularly. I put about 7.5 cups skim milk, 1/2 cup water, and about 1 cup skim milk powder in a large measuring cup and stick it in the microwave for 20 min. Cool to 115 degrees, add 2/3 cup yogurt (mix into a small jar, add your hot milk then back into the measuring cup), and put 3 quart jars into my dehydrator. Wait for 3.5 hours and it's done.
Tracie
P.S. I love your pictures too. By the way, have you any recipes for tzatziki? I think I just like saying tzatziki...
Karen
Thank's Tracie! I don't ... and yes, I think you do. ~ karen!
Dave
I have this one: http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2010/05/tzatziki-greek-yogurt-sauce-225-recipe.html
For some reason I think you and Beth (Budget Bytes writer) would probably get along really well.
Melissa L.
I wonder how hot a crock pot on the "warm" (not low) setting is? Hmm. I think I'll put water in it and check. :)
Shauna
ooh, yes and let us know. that sounds like it might work.
Kim from Milwaukee
I make my yogurt in my crock pot, but I've overcooked it even if it's on 'warm' setting. The way I do it is bring the milk to 175-180 on the stove, then pour it into an unwarmed crockpot. Let it cool to 110 and whisk in the yogurt culture well. Cover with foil, then the glass lid, then a bath towel. It'll be ready in a day or so. When you see it separating (yellow whey will be visible) then it's done. Refrigerate before you strain for best results.
Meredith
I made yogurt in a crockpot for years. Somewhere on the internet there is a good recipe.....I used the same temps as Karen indicates, and I want to say it was about 2 hours on high to get up to temp 185 ( I typically did this before I started making dinner on a Saturday evening). Turn off, add the culture or yogurt starter (whisk lightly) and remove the lid slightly to cool to 110, about another hour, hour and a half (about bed time!). Put in the oven in the crock (lid on) overnight with the oven light on. To make greek, I would dump out the yogurt in a linen cloth lined strainer over a bowl and refrigerate for two hours or so. Then I would package yogurt in little glass jam jars and top with cooked berries for our breakfasts all week.....grab and go in the morning. Super easy for those with less time that still want to feel superior to others.
Tracie
Usually when I hear the words thermometer or special heating times, I skip on to something else. I know from past experience though, that when you say something is easy and worth it, it always ends up a winner. So, due to that fact, and that I have recently gotten into making tzatziki, I am going to go out and get myself a thermometer as soon as the stores open up tomorrow...or maybe toward the end of the day. I'm getting one soon though! And thanks, Karen, tzatziki can get pricey to make if you're buying all that Greek yogurt!
Pati
I ADORE tzatziki so I guess I will be making yogurt...
LOIS M BARON
Are all tzatziki recipes created equal? As in, can I pick one at random from the internet and be OK?
Tracie
I use the Balkan yogurt, which I always strain for a couple hours. Little did I know that's the only difference between ordinary and Greek yogurt!! Then just fresh garlic, lemon, and dill, sea salt, seeded and finely grated English cucumbers with the skin on. (also needs straining) I always just wing the amount of seasonings, tasting all the way. Have yet to make my own yogurt, but my interest has definitely been renewed!
Laurinda
Or you can get a Mesophillic strain from Cultures for Health's website, & make it the no-cook way. I promise that it's as easy as making a glass of chocolate milk-stir cultured yogurt into milk, set in a semi warm spot*, 8 hours later, it's yogurt.
* in my drafty house, I put my jar in my electric oven with the light on. It works every time
Meghan
Hey Karen! Thanks for posting this. My sister taught me how to make greek yogurt, but we used a gallon of milk and that is way too much for me. I like your recipe amounts better. Also I saw Hare Krishnas on Rue Ste. Catharine in Montreal a couple of years back.
Michelle @ Sweetsuite10
Hmm - I may need to try this.
On another matter I have actually seen Hare Krishna's in an airport. It was in LA when I was pretty young, so the mid-80's. They were just as you'd expect - flowing robes, tambourines, chanting. Wait - maybe they were just regular LA folk?
Karen
Michelle - You DO need to try it. I'm officially obsessed with making yogurt. ~ karen!
Michelle @ Sweetsuite10
Hmm - do you think it would work if I did it with chocolate milk? Mmmm - Chocolate Yoghurt
Nicole2
Yeah, why is it that they don't make chocolate yogurt?
Mary W
Try it and you'll know why. LOL
Renee Rydzewski
Yoplait makes Whipped in chocolate. Kind of like mousse. I just stir in some Hershey's syrup
Rebecca
They do make chocolate yogurt! I had some really good chocolate cherry yogurt, think it was Chobani. I usually make my own yogurt; I would think that making it with chocolate milk would not be good. I'm picturing terrible things happening with the extra sugar as it sits out overnight.... Add your flavors later, when you're about to smash it in your face!
Kim
I listened to Sandor Kats a couple of weeks ago talk about his book...The Art of Fermentation on NPR. This was one of those foods he addressed... Sounded interesting butt seeing the visuals and tips, I think I will be trying it soon.
Thanks for this,
Kim
Kim
Oops the butt was an auto correct...
pumpkin
I listened to that Kim. Very interesting. Makes fermentation sound like the perfect food group. He talked about how healthy it is. Worth a listen. GO YOGURT. And kraut.
joanne
Maybe they were yogurt makers!!
Mary W
Hare Krishna's had/have a farm near Gainesville, Florida and they provided/provide free lunches several days a week to college students. I have several friends that survived their whole 4 years through that generosity. I tried the food once and, while different, it was VERY good. Never heard anything bad about them or their farm.
Kat
I kid you not. I was just sitting down to google yogurt recipes for extra milk from my brand new milk goat. Thanks for coming to the rescue!
Karen
You have a GOAT?! I WOULD KILL FOR A GOAT!!! I mean not something big ... like a bug or something. But still. I'D KILL FOR IT! ~ karen
Kim from Milwaukee
You can me both, Karen. I make goat's milk yogurt and kefir and it makes THE BEST in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
Erin
You are so funny and practical, I fell in love... well, you know. I have never enjoyed anyone's blog as much and plan on following. I think I might buy a proofer because I want to make butter and cheeses as well. By the way. I have been way too exhuberant in grocery stores as well and yes, I wondered if they thought I was a bit touched. Thank you for brightening my day.
Karen
Welcome to my site Erin! ~ karen
Mitzi
I know exactly what you mean. One lady said I was on some really good meds . When I really wasn't, honest. She said something about Prozac. Haha. That's why I stopped talking too much to strangers in the grocery store.
Nicole
Karen, my 3 does are coming home from their vacation with a buck and they had better all be pregnant. As soon as they have their babies, I'll send a couple to you. Free of charge and you don't have to kill anything. :) They are Nigerian Dwarf goats and you'll love them - trust me. AND you'll be able to make delicious homemade yogurt from the milk.
By the way, I make yogurt by filling a mason jar mostly full with raw goat milk, stir in a couple of tablespoons of yogurt from the previous batch, put the lid on and put it on the heating mat that I use to start seeds. 1-2 days later I have thick, creamy yogurt with the right amount of tangy flavor. So good, so easy, so lazy.
Karen
You're kidding! On a heating mat! That's interesting. Goats. SO cute. SO unpredictable, lol. ~ karen!
Kat
In case anyone is wondering...this works GREAT with goat milk. Several batches have been made, eaten, and loved! Thanks!!!
Karen
Good to know! ~ karen