make your own yoghurt-NOT easiyo

mardatha

Just decided to try making our own yoghurt and came on here to ask. Naturally I found a 20-page thread here already but it's about the Lakeland easiyo thing. Is there a good recipe for making it in a thermos ?

lauren_1

I am hoping to make some too but don't know where to start either, i heard you can use a tablespoon of some shop bought natural yoghurt as a starter but not sure if you add it to warm milk and pop it in fridge a few hours later or to cold milk and pop it straight in the fridge.

mardatha

I want to try it in a flask first to see if he will like it - if yes, then I will get the Lakeland thingy. If anybody has made it without a yoghurt maker, please tell me how it went

Penelope_Penguin

mardatha wrote: »

I want to try it in a flask first to see if he will like it - if yes, then I will get the Lakeland thingy. If anybody has made it without a yoghurt maker, please tell me how it went

The Easiyo is just an insulated jacket into which you put the yoghurt starter and milk mixture, and surround it with boiling water. So it's very like a thermos in that regard.

However, if you use a thermos, you'll need to have the milk at blood temperature, as the thermos has no way of heating the milk. Don't have it too hot, or it will kill the yoghurt starter.

Does that help to start you off?

zzzLazyDaisy

Follow the directions for home-made yogurt using a natural yogurt starter on the easy yo thread, but instead of using the easy yo flask, just use a vacuum flask (make sure to warm it first with boiling water)

But don't use a flask with a stainless steel liner because contact with metal prevents the yog from setting.

The advantage of the easiyo flask is that it has an inner wide necked container, so it is easy to pop in the fridge and spoon out when cool.

If you use a flask with a narrow neck, and get a fairly thick set yog, you will quickly realise the advantages of this

jackieglasgow

There is a thread or post somewhere on here about how to do it, it might be on Weezl's original 50p thread, I have copied it somewhere, I think it's on the old computer though, will have a wee search.

rachbc

my mum used to make it in the airing cupboard if that helps - hand hot milk, spoon of live yog and in it went.

wssla00

You can also make it in the slow cooker! So if you have one it might be worth a try!

mardatha

Husband is trying to watch a cowboy film. I'm yakking away every new thing I discover on this thread. Husband has just snapped and told me if I shut up and let him watch his film then he will personally GIVE me the money to buy a ypghurt maker from Lakeland. WHOOHOOO !

meanmarie

Result Mardatha!

I have made yogurt in a vacuum flask and it is difficult to get it out if the neck is narrow, but it works well enough....we seem to eat yogurt at almost every meal for a few weeks, then go off it for ages, so I don't often make it, tastes good though and certainly better if you use it

Marie

Sagz_2

I used to make it years ago, the method I used was:
Put a teaspoon of shop bought natural yoghurt in a flask, add blood temp UHT milk, put the lid on and shake a little. Next day the yoghurt had set and was ready to be eaten or put in containers in the fridge. Remember to save some to start your next batch off with.