lakeland yoghurt maker

Ken68

I have a Breville, bought from Lidl years ago, six little jars makes up 1 litre.
Use Sainsbury powder milk, 25pence per ltre. Found that using an electric whisk helps for a firmer yogurt. On for 8hours then auto switch off.
No sugar, no flavouring, use it with porridge and fruit in the morning.

seated

There are 2 ways to use the Lakeland yoghurt maker to make thick yoghurt without the sachets. 1) sprinkle half sachet gelatine over 1 L full cream milk and stir in after 10 minutes after it has softened. Whisk in 1tbsp cornflour then heat milk to 95 degrees whisking periodically.(easier in microwave) cool. It will not look thick. Add teaspoon of starter yogurt and incubate in yoghurt maker. This makes set yoghurt. 2) I analysed the Lakeland packets and they mostly contain milk powder - a combination of full cream and skimmed. For extra thick yoghurt use 170g (that's a lot) a combination of half full cream (Nestle Nido powder is available in international food shops - expensive) , half s/skimmed (widely available much cheaper), otherwise use 140g combined milk powders. Add this directly into the pot, top up with cold tap water and skake very well. You may need to transfer to another container to mix. Add starter yoghurt and incubate. This way is easy as there's no heating and good result. You can add sugar before incubating.

GHB

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Lidl's greek yogurt is wonderful, thick and creamy - and cheap!!

Yes it is. But Aldi's is even better! :j

tenuissent

Does no-one make yoghurt in a thermos any more? I realise that the point of the thread was that a yoghurt maker might be a good present, but anyone who already has a thermos need only put a spoonful of live yoghurt in the bottom, top it up with warmed milk, and leave it overnight or longer. Use a spoonful of this to start off the next thermos.

During a busy family Easter I forgot my thermos and opened it after four days, and it was even thicker than usual.

If it is a bt thin, I also drain it in muslin over a sieve and a bowl, and put the whey into soups etc. If you drain it for long enough, it turns firm and can be shaped into polpetti mixed with spinach, rolled in breadcrumbs and fried, for example - or in Indian dishes as paneer.

I wish I knew all this when I had a cow.....it was quite a struggle to use up all the milk every day, even with a growing family.

marich

I understand that the way to start off a yoghurt culture is to dabble a bit of straw in the muckiest corner of the farmyard until it makes a well with liquid in it . You then stir the straw around in a bowl of milk and leave it in the sun for a day .

I've never tried it but am assured this is the business - can anyone confirm it ?

Otherwise - yes - Thermos does it nicely .

Ken68

There was a documentary on tv not so long ago. The researchers found it was...er....what you said but human.

V.Lucky

http://www.qvcuk.com/qvc.product.833595.html?cookie=set

I have the above yogurt maker, bought it last year from the QVC outlet store for £2.99.

I have found it excellent. I use UHT whole milk, 3 tablespoons of skimmed milk power and 2 tablespoons of live yogurt and it gives a lovely creamy yogurt. I add frozen berries, which makes it really yummy. I sometimes add a little powdered sweetener too, but this does thin the texture up.

Best thing I ever bought, as we use it weekly.

Carriannelouise

I use my easi-yo kit with plain UHT milk, 3tbsp milk powder and 1tsp live yogurt, i start off with everything at room temp, put it all in the jar and give it a good shake i then fill up to the line with water and leave it as if i was using the bought sachets. it hasn't failed me yet. i strain mine through cloth and have delicious thick greek style yogurt, i put jam in mine for flavour or fruit powder available online.

Footpather

I won some vouchers and bought myself an Easiyo yogurt maker with them. The one I have isn't the electric one. Shortly after I won 6 sachets on the Easiyo website, quickly followed by a years supply and two months later, a years supply again! (Needs a bit of effort but not too much). So I haven't had to buy any yet! They give away quite a lot of yogurt in their various competitions so go look here:

http://www.easiyo.com/timeout/index.html?page=timeout

Since I am trying to lose weight I ordered all the low fat ones but I do put a teaspoon of honey in when I am eating them.

Also try Ebay as there are numerous sellers of Easiyo yogurt sachets on there.