Making my own yoghurt

ariba10

You need to use a "live" yogurt as a starter. You can buy a large carton in a supermarket and freeze it in an ice cube tray to use when you wish. But check that it contains a live culture.

meadowcat

Thanks Ariba, but what I meant was do I need to use goat's yogurt as the starter rather than ordinary cow's milk yogurt.

I have been making ordinary yogurt every couple of days and have no problem at all. This time I thought I would make it with goat's milk, but as I say, it is quite runny.

Just wondered if the yogurt bacteria in cow's milk yogurt and goat's was different.

ariba10

I make mine in easyo and add a cupfull of dried milk powder to the Ltr of skimmed milk.
That makes it thicker. It might be worth trying with the goats milk

meadowcat

I always add the dried milk too and get nice thick yogurt. The only thing different is the goat's milk. I had read, I think in the Crank's cook book, about making goat's milk yogurt, but it didn't specify that you had to use goat's milk yogurt as a starter. Now I am wondering.

krishna

It's a standard problem with goats milk, it just makes runny yogurt. If you buy it it's the same, unless they add thickeners or boild them milk down.

stringbean1_2

on the subject of yoghurt making, I only ever did it years ago with a live culture and have never tried it with one of these sachets that you can get and what i want to know is can you make the yoghurt with skimmed milk or do you have to use full fat?

thriftlady_2

stringbean1 wrote: »

on the subject of yoghurt making, I only ever did it years ago with a live culture and have never tried it with one of these sachets that you can get and what i want to know is can you make the yoghurt with skimmed milk or do you have to use full fat?

You can make it with any kind of milk;)

Bargain_Bunny

I could live without my Easiyo maker Im lactose intolerant but i can tolerate the yoghurts made with easiyo (apart from the custard :-()...