I love yogurt with fruit like strawberries, blackberries. And sometimes just plain yogurt withy nothing added. Most yogurt brands at store are either loaded down with suger, or are with additives (such as Jello), or too expensive (organic).
So I decided to make homemade yougurt which is real easy and fresh :)
Yougurt making call for a thermometer, but since I don't have one, we are going to use "stick&stone" approach and it always come out perfect. All you need is one quart of milk and one tablespoon of store bought plain yogurt. And a jar with lid and a large skillet.
First pour the milk in skillet on medium heat untill milk start to boil. Just as soon as milk starting to boil, pull it off the heat and let milk cool down a bit. Ideal milk temperature we want is around 115-120 degrees which is slightly cooler than what comes out of hot water fauset.
So using hot water fauset temperature as referense point, as soon as milk cooled down to around 115-120 degree (almost same as hot water fauset temperature), pour it into the jar and add spoonfull of [store bought] yogurt to the mix to get chemical process going. And put lid on it.
Wash out the skillet and fill it with hot water and then emerse jar in the skillet. The trick here is to keep water in the skillet at same temperature (115-120 degrre) for about six hour for milk to turn into yogurt. I have electric stove, so when I put skillet filled with water on top of burner, the lowest heat setting will keep the water warm.
After six or seven hours, move the jar from warm bath water to refrigerator for it to get chilled. And then enjoy refreshing home made yogurt :)
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