Yogurt in Review

I finally got my yogurt maker, and don't I just love it!

According to the directions, you'll need:

42 oz milk
6 oz plain yogurt

How you'll make it:
~heat the milk on the stove to boiling (180 degrees) and let it boil for a couple of minutes

~turn off the heat and remove about 1 1/2 - 2 c milk

~let both cool to about 110 degrees
~add yogurt to removed milk and stir until smooth
~add remaining milk and mix well
~pour the mixture into the 7 jars
~start the machine


(I used whole milk the first time, which takes 7 hours. I used skim milk the second time, which takes 10 hours. I'm going to try 2% next, because I loved the texture of the whole, but not the fat content. The skim was a little runny for my taste, so hopefully the 2% will be somewhere in between.)
~when the timer goes off, remove the lid from the yogurt maker and screw the lids on the jars.
~let the jars sit in the refrigerator for 3 hours before you eat it (my end time has been around 9 - 10pm each time, so mine gets to sit for about 8 hours)

~enjoy, cause it's awesome.


get a 32 container's worth of yogurt (and pretend like I bought it) from the 6 jars (have to save the 7th for the next starter) and I was paying about $3 for a container of organic yogurt. A gallon of organic milk is about $6, so I'm probably paying about the same, but there are no extra ingredients, and I can sweeten it with honey rather than sugar. Deal? I don't know, but it sure is fun to make it.

You can do the same thing in your crockpot if you follow this recipe. I haven't tried it, but the comments speak for themselves. All 393 of them. I only read the first 10 or so but I'm sure they are all great.


Please don't tell DM I didn't technically need an actual yogurt machine. He was excited, because I told him I thought it would save us money.

***I've been thinking about this, and on the crockpot365 blog, one of the commenters figured out the cost of Yobaby compared to homemade. That is an huge savings. Something I also want to note is, according to my Eat This, Not That book, one teensy itty bitty 6 oz container of YoBaby yogurt has more sugar than an ice cream bar. I never bought that stuff, but if you do, you're definitely going to come out way ahead if you make your own.