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

zippychick

ive merged this with our easiyo thread

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sebtomato

Hi

Someone mentioned that you can just use a few spoons of Easiyo mix as a starter, with UHT milk. What happens to the rest of the bag? Can it be kept and used later on?
Do you have to freeze the powder?

Also, if you freeze some starter in ice cubes, how do you then use them? Do you have to defrost them at room temperature first?

Thanks!

oldtractor

To make yoghurt
1. Buy a plain [or vanilla if liked] LIVE BIO yoghurt.
2.Place 2 or 3 heaped tablespoons of yoghurt into a saucepan.
3.add approx 1 pint of wholemilk to the pan.
4.Stir and heat to blood heat [ dip little finger in, it should be warm not hot, baby's bottle temperature.]
5.remove from heat and pour into a sterilized jar eg a kilner jar.
[ I heat my jar in the oven on very low to sterilize]
6. screw on jar lid and leave in a warm place overnight eg next to radiator pipes.
7. next day, open jar, stir it should be thickish , cool in fridge
8. ENJOY!
NB \If you want really thick yoghurt add a couple of tablesspoons of milk powder at stage 5

Shah79

Has anyone made yogurt?

I want to start making yogurt using the thermos style yogurt makers...anyone done it already?

Gaia

Hi Shah79 - I make yogurt regularly.

In true MSE style, you DON'T need to buy a special yopgurt maker, just use a wide necked (food) vacuum flask Just sterilise it with boiling wayer before use.

The easiest (and cheapest) way to make the yogurt is to use UHT milk, this means that you don't have to boil it to sterilise it. Heat to tepid (about the same temp you'd heat a baby bottle of milk to) and mix with live, natural yogurt (1 tablespoon yogurt to about 1 litre milk) and pour into the vacuum flask. Seal and leave to incubate overnight. Next morning you will have a flask full of yogurt.

You can use some of the yogurt as a starter for your next batch. If you like your yogurt thicker just dissolve some skimmed milk powder into the milk.

If you like fruit yogurts just add to the finished yogurt eg
sliced/diced fruit
stewed fruit
jam
whatever other flavouring takes your fancy

Cheaper and healthier than buying yogurt from the shops.

I must admit though, in the spirit of full disclosure - I used to use a vacuum flask but now use an electric yogurt maker (the Lakeland one), which means I don't even have to warm up the milk, I just add it cold to the yogurt starter and it incubates it at the correct temperature. There is no point whatsoever in buying one of the fancy yogurt thermos flasks - they are simply wide necked vacuum flasks charging a pricing premium!

Have fun and enjoy your yogurt.

jumblejack

I used to do this regularly!

If occasionally it 'went wrong', when it seperated, I simply put it through a muslin bag and I reserved the yoghurt for things like chilli accompaniment sprinkled with snipped chives. The fluid was thrown in with a smoothie or it made up the fluid of a scone mix. Waste not want not

Shah79

Thanks guys. I'll tell you how i get on.

A friend of mine told me I could get one of the easiyo yogurt makers off ebay for 4-5 quid. Probably about the same price as a thermos flask.

rachbc

I tried it with a flask with little success now I use a lakeland yog maker and think its brill. i use UHT fat free milk and stain for fat free thick greek style yog

zippychick

I've merged this with our easiyo thread which has loads of previous discussion

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svm_2

I have a quick question about easiyo. We are going away in August to Turkey, where hopefully it will be very hot. We will not have a car so to save on some shopping could I take a sachet of easiyo and the container and leave it in a window as I don't want to pack the yogurt maker. Has anyone done this before?