After the success of culturing our own kefir, I want to try yogurt next because I don’t really the yogurt available at the supermarkets here.
Initially, they had the usual fruit-flavoured yogurt but now they’ve come up with yogurt + kei chi and yogurt + red dates, which have become sweeter.
Fortunately, Hubby found ONE brand of natural yogurt (Miaoshi) that is sugar-free, which I could use as a starter.
UPDATED: I bought myself a Yogotherm Yogurt Maker- 2-QT (US$39.99)
I found the following links of folks who have successfully made their own yogurt. Here they are for reference:
- Make your own yogurt in China
- List of utensils and basic ingredients
- Make your own yogurt (with photos) – explains that natural, home-made yogurt is actually runny since no thickeners are added. Ahh…then the yogurt on sale in China is quite good as they are all the runny type you drink with a straw.
- Interesting discussion on natural, homemade yogurt on the New York Times.
- How to make goat milk yogurt
- Another how to make your own yogurt (with photos)
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There is Easiyo yogurt maker here. Super easy and quick and tasty too! Want me to send over?
Btw, if you do, please email or text message me yah.
Hi, U do not need any yogurt maker. I made my yogurt in the thermal pot. I use about 1 cup yogurt (plain unsweetened) to 1 litre of milk. I use powdered milk but i mixed it thicker so that I get a creamier results.
Heat the milk to about 40 C, pour into pot, add in the yogurt, stir and keep the whole thing in the thermal cooking pot. The pot will keep the temperature nice and warm for the yogurt to develop.
If it is very cold, then u can also pour some warm water into the thermal cooking pot, then you put your jar/ pot in that warm water before closing the thermal pot’s lid.
Leave it overnight…and you get your yogurt!
Btw, this prompted me that you can also use the same method to cultivate kefir. I read before tat u were having some difficulties getting them to grow due to the cold weather.
Paik Ling – You’re a real dear – God bless you!!!
I read up a bit on Easiyo and found that I’d need to use their starter packs each time.
In any case, I wouldn’t dream of troubling you, my dear lady at this time
Shooi – Really nice of you to share these instructions but I don’t have a thermal pot.
Thermal pots are Japanese, right, which means they are SUPER expensive here in China e.g. a kid’s Thermos food container is only RM80 but costs RMB280 here!!!
I was browsing the home appliances department and was shocked to see Japanese branded water pots costing >RMB1,999 when a Made in China one is about RMB399 (our old one is less than that, I believe).
Think the best bet for me is still the Yogotherm yogurt maker…thanks again
Hi dear, I don’t think it is Japanese. The brands I am familiar with are US brands but there are lots of relatively unknown brands.
Honestly, I prefer this over getting a yogurt maker simply because you can do so much more with a thermal cooker. I love multipurpose stuff so that i don’t have to add additional clutter my already messy kitchen
Btw, a thermal cooker looks like this:-http://www.adinochang.com/archives/la-gourmet-thermal-wonder-cooker-7l.html
But if it is super expensive in China,…then i guess not.
Shooi – Thanks for further explaining the thermal cooker. I couldn’t find anything like that here but will keep an eye out when I’m back home.
The Yogotherm yogurt maker is something like that since it doesn’t use electricity – it’s a thermal pot insulated with styrofoam. Maybe I’ll get a thermal cooker instead since I can get more use out of it