Living on next to nought - is that the key?

beanielou

Looks very yum :drool:

mizmir

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good Morning :hello:

mizmir - Super easy m'dear. I use a couple of wide-mouthed food flasks. They were destined for the charity shop/rummage sale, but I always dithered in donating, as although they worked perfectly, they were stained from carrying tomato based soup. But I'm glad now that I kept them, as they are just perfect in keeping the milk and yoghurt culture warm enough to make yoghurt in our stone cold house They are quite old, plastic ones - cost about a £5 each new as I recall (many moons ago) and one is .7l and one .5l so I make a litre batch of yoghurt at a time. Although because I use fresh milk and do the 'heat and then cool' method, you lose a bit to 'skinning'.

The first batch I made in our stainless steel food flask, as I thought it would be easy to sterilise, but the neck is actually quite narrow, where as with my old flasks, I can get my hand inside each of them - the smaller is a bit of a squeeze! to scrub after each batch.

I was incredibly lucky, in that yoghurt making saves me money, and I actually didn't have to buy any equipment to do it - which because I had never made it before, was a blessing, as I didn't know if I could do it/would take to it/could make edible stuff etc

How do you/did you make yoghurt?

Flasks - brilliant idea! I will route around in the cupboard and see what we have - I have a feeling we do have some wide ones - OH has a bit of a thing for flasks so was always buying new ones (before we went on a budget!).

How did I make it? Goodness - it was back in 1980s studentville - not sure I can remember exactly. My house mate had a yoghurt maker I remember that. Little jars in a yellow tray that you plugged in. :cool: Think we just boiled milk, let it cool a little, added some live yoghurt and put it in the yog maker. But I may have forgotten some vital step! :rotfl: Is that more or less it?

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks beanie - you are always so supportive

mizmir wrote: »

How did I make it? Goodness - it was back in 1980s studentville - not sure I can remember exactly. My house mate had a yoghurt maker I remember that. Little jars in a yellow tray that you plugged in. :cool: Think we just boiled milk, let it cool a little, added some live yoghurt and put it in the yog maker. But I may have forgotten some vital step! :rotfl: Is that more or less it?

YES! That is entirely it I only ask, as when I first mooted trying to make yoghurt, I know that 7 week wonder and CUL8R said that they used UHT milk, and so obviously, you only have to heat that up to 46 degrees or so, not the 86 to start with and then cool back down to 46.

Flasks are fine - and you only have to use the energy once for warming the milk - not to keep the pots incubating for however long.... :money:

Greying

sonas_baby

Ok I won't lurk, and you don't need to worry about converting me, brought up a daughter who didn't like the taste of meat. So already a convert. I've not tried making yoghurt before but recently tried to make bread (after programme on about all the additives in food) not very successful. Waiting on book arriving on subject through library as research is needed before next attempt.

Have a lovely weekend.

Pippilongstocking

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Doh! :doh:What am I like?

*Student Special* here;




I'd be surprised if it cost more than £1 a plate...... and was yum - if a little carb heavy...... :rotfl:

Greying

Starts walking to Greying's for next Friday nights fix of chips.

You reckon a week might do it? I'll happily find a £1 too:D



Looks yum.

PS no such thing as 'carb heavy in this house' - we love our carbs - stops us being blown away in the gales:rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

I'm with you Pippi. In fact, I'd probably put the wedges in bread

satchmo1

I like hard boiled eggs in curry, but DH doesn't. Why has it taken this long to occur to me to just add one to my portion, doh!


Walk along the headland this morning was just the thing to blow away my hangover from last nights locally brewed real ale... plus rather too much wine. The wind has gone from a bit blustery to rather too gusting for walking, so I'm snug in the snug with a pot of coffee, the papers and "friends in the box". Another form of bliss.

little_sweetie

Oooh satchmo it all sounds fab and worth a hangover

After all this talk about carbs too bring 'em on! The pizza looked fab GP . Unfortunately, my baking/cooking has had to be postponed today 'cos I've been 'grounded' and put in charge (do they know what they are doing putting me in charge?? :eek:) but it's homemade cheese & potato pie with (tinned) baked beans tonight so all is not lost

in_need_of_direction

I love potatoes, cheese and beans.

muddywhitechicken

Hi Greying :wave:

I've done as I was told

MWCx