yoghurt makers

[mummytojames]

im hopeing you home yoghurt makers will know this one
im buying myself a yoghurt maker and i read that if you put it through a sive over night it thickens well im going to do homemade fruite puree to go in it which makes the shop brought stuff runny
well i was wondering if i added the fruit puree before puting it in the sive the night before will it still thicken or will it go like the shop brought and go realy runny hope some one on here knows

If you put yoghurt through a muslin in a seive it goes VERY thick. But it also reduces hugely in volume. So I make a litre of yoghurt. If I put it through a seive in the fridge overnight, I might have 300 ml of very thick yoghurt, (almost the consistency of butter). If you mix this with fruit puree then you have kind-of 'yoghurt consistency' result? but straining the yoghurt in this way is a real faff, and quite messy too. So I don't do it often.

Depends what fruit puree you use too - i.e. depends how runny that is, iyswim.

We actually drink a lot of the yoghurt - pureed fruits, yoghurt plus juice .... yummy!

Does that answer your question?

roisin - you are the yoghurt queen!!

mmm we have an easiyo,,, thick yoghurt, makes wonderful smoothies...

thanks all the reason i was asking was i was thinking of making the yoghurt in a yoghurt maker then add the fruit before putting it in the sieve