Re: Question about yogurt maker..........................................

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I'm having a great experience with my $19 7 jar Salton Yogurt maker. It holds the temperature just fine and the glass jars are just the right size for a serving. I kept checking the temperature the first few times I made the yogurt but now I just let it go. Heat the milk, let it cool, add the starter, and heat for 24 hours before sticking it in the fridge to cool and firm up. It's not too tart (I use half and half) and there is almost no liquid so I don't need to drip it.I wasn't really a cook before starting SCD so the idea of making yogurt was very intimidating (and very strange). But with the yogurt maker it's so simple - and the yogurt is so good. I need to find an extra set of jars though so I can immediately start a new batch once the first one is done.HarveyCrohns 13 yearsSCD 9 monthsMed free, gaining weight, feeling goodGood morning,I was about to order a yogurt maker until I read thru the messages and find that most wished they had bought a dehydrator. My question is....................what do you put the yogurt in........to put it in the dehydrator? Little glass jelly jars? What would you put on the top? The metal rings that come with them or something else?Tonya

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For yogurt in the dehydrator I use Pyrex glass bowls that come with

plastic lids. I think they are easier to scrape out than canning jars

would be.

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My question

> is....................what do you put the yogurt in........to put it in

> the dehydrator? Little glass jelly jars? What would you put on the

> top? The metal rings that come with them or something else?

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> Tonya

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Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. I purchased the 5 tray excalibur

dehydrator as I was able to get the big one. I hope the 5 tray one

will work.

Tonya

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> Excuse me, " as I was not able " to get the big one.

Tonya

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At 01:36 PM 1/16/2009, you wrote:

Excuse me, " as I was not

able " to get the big one.

The smaller one will work for making yogurt -- you'll just have to use

shorter containers!

Do NOT use store bought yogurt, except as a starter -- it is not

fermented long enough to remove the lactose.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

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I like to use 32 ounce jars to make my yogurt. They are all " recycled "

from things like store bought pickles and applesauce. While in the

dehydrator, I place wax paper over the jars (secured with a

rubberband). Once the yogurt is done, I put the metal lids on them.

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> Good morning,

> I was about to order a yogurt maker until I read thru the messages

> and find that most wished they had bought a dehydrator. My question

> is....................what do you put the yogurt in........to put it in

> the dehydrator? Little glass jelly jars? What would you put on the

> top? The metal rings that come with them or something else?

>

> Tonya

>

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HI Tonya

I just started the diet this week and had to get all my stuff ready.

After looking on line and checking out reviews I settled on the

Miracle Milk container Yogurt maker. I just posted this review of it

after my second batch. Hope this helps. It cost $44.00 delivered from

Amazon. Here it is:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miracle Milk Bottle Yogurt Maker?, January 16, 2009

By Barbara Kloeppel " SCD Dieter " (Berkeley, California USA) -

After reading the reviews of the Miracle Milk Carton Yogurt Maker, I

was clued into a possible temperature discrepancy. I was on a diet

that required 24 hour fermentation to process all milk sugars. I

decided that if there was a glass quart container instead of a

cardboard milk container there would be more even heat distribution.

I bought a quart of pasturized but unhomogenized milk. I shoved the

glass milk container into the yogurt maker with a little effort. My

first batch was a bit runny, but I hadn't put it into the refrigerator

yet. I discovered that the glass container wouldn't come out but I

quickly realized that it really didn't matter since my system worked.

I would consider it part of the unit and wash the glass container by

hand while in the machine.

But I didn't wash it immediately, I put in goats milk and left the

remains from the previous batch that coated the sides, in the

container. Today after 17 hours I stirred it around with a bamboo

stick and the consistancy is much thicker than the first batch and I

still have 7 hours to go. I had also put the starter yogurt and the

goats milk into a mixer before entering it into the glass container

for processing.

I'm really happy with this system. I don't have to wash those little

cups that other yogurt makers have, I can pull the plug when I deem it

done, it takes up very little counter space and it didn't cost an arm

and a leg. So if you need yogurt fermented for 24 hours and you like

the middle eastern, sourish, thick yogurt, this is the machine for you.

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> Good morning,

> I was about to order a yogurt maker until I read thru the messages

> and find that most wished they had bought a dehydrator. My question

> is....................what do you put the yogurt in........to put it in

> the dehydrator? Little glass jelly jars? What would you put on the

> top? The metal rings that come with them or something else?

>

> Tonya

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