Yoghurt Maker

I have one and love it to bits, can't recommend it enough! It' s great if you need to take boi yoghurt each day as the mix works out so much cheaper than buying bio pots each week. |Have a look at lakeland or check your local julian graves store for supplies.

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Yoghurt starter help
In this thread you will read how I do it and it really is very easy. You don't have to use the expensive starters, it works just as well from two tablespoons of a good organic bio-live yoghurt such as Rachels Diary.

I've had no problems making good yoghurt from fresh milk without boiling simply putting 1 litre in the microwave for about 3 minutes. Having a thermometer to check you start at the right temperature for yoghurt is useful. The one I have is also a tablespoon measure which I use for the starter and the skimmed milk powder which I use to make it slighly thicker.

I understand Lakeland have in their shops, but not online, the Kenwood yoghurt maker which uses 6 lidded glass jars. This is what I use as I find bulk yoghurt tends to separate as you use it, whereas you can avoid this by using a whole/half individual small jar. I'm still using yoghurt from the same Rachels Diary yoghurt I bought as my starter after xmas. Providing you keep making fresh yoghurt every week, taking a couple of tablespoons from the last batch to start the next keeps it going with absolutely no need to buy the expensive starters.

I certainly don't find the individual jars fiddly. They go straight into the dishwasher when used so washingup is no problem and what could be easier than pouring milk from a jug into six glass jars and putting the lids on them and letting them sit on the base for 4 hrs then putting them in the fridge. We've used small jamjars of the same volume to supplement the original Kenwood 6 so when it's time for a new batch we can put six jars on the yoghurt maker base to prewarm while the starter yoghurt remains in the fridge till the milks ready.

Curry_Queen wrote:

How long does yoghurt actually keep?

I have just found a pot of Tesco HL Natural Greek Yoghurt lurking in the back of the fridge with sell-by date 26th March

It looks and smells fine (not tasted it yet) and was previously unopened, so not had access to any air-borne bacteria, so I just wonder if it's safe to actually use

If yogurt has turned, it tastes 'fizzy'.

Curry_Queen wrote:

It looks and smells fine (not tasted it yet) and was previously unopened, so not had access to any air-borne bacteria, so I just wonder if it's safe to actually use

If as you say there is nothing apparently wrong with it but don't know how to use it up try adding it to a curry.
Lots of Indian curry recipes use yoghurt such as
Dahi MurghChicken and Yoghurt but I often throw some yoghurt into a curry if I've made it a bit too hot for my other half. But I've always got plenty of home made plain yoghurt in the fridge.
Edit. For the recipe provided you don't have to start with a whole 1kg chicken. You can use whatever chicken portions are on offer and work out best value. Don't want anything too fiddly for some here.