easiyo yogurt maker any good? or make your own? (merged)

Fubrite

Hi,


This thread is a fantastic resource for making yoghurt! I am now half-way through my third batch of the delicious stuff, and am taking some to work with me every day.


However, despite keeping it in a cool bag with ice blocks, it always ends up much runnier than when I left home. It could be due to the fact that I have a 1.5 mile walk to get to work, and it might be that it's joggling too much in my bag, although I have tried to minimise this.


I wondered if any of you yoghurt gurus (yo-guru?;)) might know of a solution?

Fubrite

Bella56

Saw a great tip on the Easiyo site (from a customer).... for coconut yoghurt, just use a can of coconut milk plus sachet plus water filled to usual line, voila, coconut yoghurt! Haven't tried it yet but can't wait to see if it works. :j

Crocswearer

Bella56 wrote: »

Saw a great tip on the Easiyo site (from a customer).... for coconut yoghurt, just use a can of coconut milk plus sachet plus water filled to usual line, voila, coconut yoghurt! Haven't tried it yet but can't wait to see if it works. :j

Or you could save money by replacing the sachet with a tablespoon or two from a pot of value natural yogurt. The rest can be frozen until needed. Even if you chuck the rest away, its still cheaper than a sachet! I have made yogurt from all sorts of milk-replacements.

Thanks for the lovely idea, anyway. Its sounds delicious! I'm going to do it with a couple of tablespoons of natural yogurt and a pack of coconut cream made up to a litre with water.

boredjellybean

does anyone know how to make a really low fat version? I know you can by the slimmer version which is syn free on the slimming world plan but is there a way of doing that without using sachets each time (can't afford that every few days!!!)

many thanks in advance

bjb

Bella56

Crocswearer wrote: »

Or you could save money by replacing the sachet with a tablespoon or two from a pot of value natural yogurt. The rest can be frozen until needed. Even if you chuck the rest away, its still cheaper than a sachet! I have made yogurt from all sorts of milk-replacements.

Thanks for the lovely idea, anyway. Its sounds delicious! I'm going to do it with a couple of tablespoons of natural yogurt and a pack of coconut cream made up to a litre with water.

I'm a bit doubtful about using a whole can of coconut milk then the rest UHT milk and starter....surely it would turn out really watery? I've not even tried using an Easiyo sachet yet due to cost and am about to make my first batch using UHT and store-bought yogurt. Fingers crossed that the impulsive CS £3 Easiyo won't be a mistake

Crocswearer

boredjellybean wrote: »

does anyone know how to make a really low fat version? I know you can by the slimmer version which is syn free on the slimming world plan but is there a way of doing that without using sachets each time (can't afford that every few days!!!)

many thanks in advance

bjb

You can use UHT skimmed milk with your starter (couple of tablespoons of plain yogurt). Some people would add extra dried milk to make the texture thicker, but that would add some fat too. Yogurted skimmed milk will be more like a yogurt drink than yogurt, though. How about a milk replacement, like soya, oat or rice milk? The second two wouldn't be so money-saving, though.

Crocswearer

Bella56 wrote: »

Fingers crossed that the impulsive CS £3 Easiyo won't be a mistake

It wasn't a mistake! I've made loads of successful batches like that. Its very difficult to do it wrong!

Crocswearer

Crocswearer wrote: »

I'm going to do it with a couple of tablespoons of natural yogurt and a pack of coconut cream made up to a litre with water.

Pants! That didn't work. After yogging and chilling, I've got about an inch of solid coconut oil on the surface, a layer of watery stuff under that and probably a layer of coconut yogurt at the bottom :eek:

lizzyb1812

Boredjellybean - you can make fat free yoghurt with dried milk powder.

I make mine like this:

Boil kettle and fill my food flask with hot water.
50 grams Sainsbug's basics dry milk - ie enough to make half a litre plus another 15 grams to make a thicker yoghurt. Add water to make up to 500ml then into microwave for exactly one minute.
Then add your starter - my bought starter was a Yeo Valley Organic - froze it into cubes and used 2 cubes for my first starter. I find I can then use the new yoghurt to start the next batch. About every 8 batches I use 2 more Yeo Valley cubes.
Stir the starter into the milk, then put mixture into flask and leave overnight, or if prepped in the morning leave until teatime. Then decant it into a storage jar and put in fridge. Keeps about a week.

Total cost for 500ml is about 31p

Interesting idea about the coconut milk - might try that next time.

Bella56

Crocswearer wrote: »

Pants! That didn't work. After yogging and chilling, I've got about an inch of solid coconut oil on the surface, a layer of watery stuff under that and probably a layer of coconut yogurt at the bottom :eek:

:lipsrseal Eww! Thanks for trialling it for us though!
Well being lazy, I was tempted into buying 2 sachets of Easiyo, and the Greek honey was nice. But, being a sourdough convert as well, I couldn't NOT try making it properly myself! Threw in about a cup of yogurt and filled the rest with room temp. UHT - both were goat's milk. Forgot about the tip about milk powder so the yogurt was runny, but nice. Think it took about 8 hours, well actually I forgot about it so left it about that long.

I'm a bit confused by people heating UHT milk then adding live yogurt; surely this will kill lots of bacteria? And the Easiyo instructions say to use cold water, so I'm guessing that using warm or hot milk with starter will make a sour yogurt, just the same as leaving a sourdough bread proving somewhere hot for too long makes it very acidic, and cooler temperatures make it less acidic???

Anyhow thanks everyone for the tips for making it cheap - those sachets are sooooooo expensive.