The yogurt always turn out great. I got a bulgarian starter some months ago. Now it’s just milk and couple of tablespoons of the last batch of yogurt. I make it once every week or two. Costs about $0.60/qt to make. And I can pronounce all the ingredients in it! I am sick of the stupid yogurt department in the grocery store. You can get everything except just yogurt with a little fruit in the bottom. This is much better and easy to make with the Instant Pot. I think it has just about paid for itself making yogurt.
Yes, one of the main reasons we bought the Instant Pot was for making yogurt. Hoping to try it out over our long Christmas vacation.
In the old days, before you could buy good starters, you just inoculated the milk with store-bought, and left it wrapped up on a warm shelf. But now, you can begin your first batch with great starters, use a controlled-heat gizmo like the Instant-Pot and, yes: you’re off to the races! and you know you’ve got a lot of good bugs in there ;-)
Woo Hoo! I finally bit the bullet and dumped our podunk grocery store after Thanksgiving when the meat dept. wouldn’t tell me the price of a turkey. Adios, sayonara, kiss my grits, they lost a customer. Sadly, it’s a 40 mile trip to the store now but I came home the other day with all but one item marked off the grocery list - cardamom. That’s a huge change from decades of dealing with 30 items not marked off.
Yeah, plain yogurt has been one of those next to impossible to find items so I learned to make yogurt and yogurt drinks using an inverted crockpot over a heating pad from the Tightwad Gazette 20 years ago. So simple. Way better than that grocery store stuff. It’s fun switching up the types of milk from 1% to cream and there’s a world of flavors to experiment with. Or straining it for cheesecake.