Homemade yogurt -- my first attempt

Posted by cybercita, July 23, 2008 at 7:48 PM

i made my first batch of yogurt today out of a quart of organic valley 2% milk and a third of a cup of organic valley dried milk. i used a couple of tablespoons of fage yogurt for the starter.

i didn't have a heating pad or a probe thermometer, as suggested by alton, so i decided to try submerging the mason jars of hot milk into a preserving kettle of hot water, then setting the kettle in a cardboard box and insulating it with flannel sheets.

it absolutely turned into yogurt! mirabile dictu! nice and thick! the water was still warm when i took the jars out eight hours later. i took a taste, though, and unfortunately it tasted strongly of the powdered milk. i put it in the refrigerator to chill and i'm hoping that the sweet chalky taste will go away once it's nice and cold.

i remember reading that if you can smell powdered milk, it's too old. i don't know where i can buy fresher powdered milk, though, since i got it at whole foods.

anyway the process was super easy, and certainly a lot cheaper than buying siggi's.

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