I'm on the verge of purchasing a yoghurt maker...

[Wormwood]

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Mark my words, it will be another gadget that's used once or twice then buried in the cupboard, never to see the light of day again.

I have my MIL's vintage 80's one! My mum still uses hers too. It's just the yoghurt and UHT method basically - but how do you get the heat with a flask? (Just out of interest?)

I use a large plastic cake tin thing. Heat up milk to boiling in pan, cool down, add live bacteria to warm milk, stick lid on and put it in the airing cupboard. I sometimes add hotchoc/coca to milk when boiling. The kids love chocolate yoghurt.

The easy-yo in the lakeland catalogue tells you how it's fantastic value - you save about 1p per litre

I wouldn't bother with a maker myself - I just boil the milk then cool (or use UHT and heat it to the right temp), put it in a big jam jar with a spoonful of yoghurt, then sit it in a big saucepan full of warm water with a couple of towels over it & leave overnight. IMO you'd be better off investing in a dairy thermometer which doesn't cost much & won't take up any where near so much space!

(I make it as DH can only tolerate goats milk, & goats yoghurt is fiendishly expensive, also we used to have goats, so often had surplus milk.)

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My mum used to make yoghurt in the airing cupboard, IIRC.

Not sure exactly how as I was a wee nipper but I think it involved buying some live yoghurt as some sort of starter.

My Mum used to make yoghurt when I was little.

The vile yuk it turned out put me off yoghurt for years!! I thought it all tasted sour and grainy.

I've got the Lakeland bulk yoghurt maker and love it. One tip however is to buy two of the inside bits then you will always have a fresh one to use whilst still finishing off the first lot.

I wouldn't bother with Easy Yo. Just use UHT milk and a couple of tablespoons full of live yoghuet to get started. I keep mine on overnight. Hope that's not a fire risk.

Goldensnitch- I actually can't remember what the yoghurt tasted like. However, I have never been a fan of yoghurt so I suspect I never tried it.

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Maybe you did try them ManyTimes and that's what put you off

I use the yeo valley to start mine. It's lovely - tastes much mellower than the yeo valley. Nice and thick too made with whole milk and I recently discovered you can make it really thick by straining it through a muslin in a sieve. Mmmmmm

I had an Easiyo. I so wanted to like it but I had about 50% success getting yoghurt at all and nobody in the family would eat the results except me. You would never mistake it for shop bought yoghurt.

I ditched it onto Freecycle in the end.

If you're making yoghurt (with or without a maker) its definitely worth trying different brands of yoghurt as starter - with unpasteurised goats milk, the cheap yoghurt from the Spar makes a much better result than nice Rachel's organic (which goes all stringy). Its just a question of hitting a brand that has bacteria that goes with your milk.

Not moving the yogurt while its yog-ing is also important, I believe, to get a good smooth result (otherwise the bacteria tend to break apart while budding). And as Pinkone says, strained yogurt is also very good.

So long as you start with the right temperature milk, and don't move it, you should get yoghurt every time . . .

Worm - it lasts for ages and I too use the yeo valley stuff as my first starter. It's great on it's own or with a bit of sugar or with a spoonful of jam/honey mixed in.

I've used mine for about 3 years now. We eat yogurt every day. very nice and very easy. I do it the same way as neilly. we add in fruit purees made from gluts of fruit in the summer or any sad fruit that needs using up.

I normally use the Total greek yoghurt for a starter. I have a lakeland bulk yoghurt maker. I can't get small pots of plain yoghurt at our local supermarket very often.

I don't really see the point of easyyo in the first place but bought a single packet of toffee flavour. I used the normal yoghurt maker, It was okay but wouldn't bother again.

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we have the bulk one, it's great!
hard to find organic uht milk, but they do have it in sainsbury's- we strain it too

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I have the Lakeland one and love it!

I strain it if I'm going to use the yoghurt for eating, but not if I'm using it to cook or bake.

Bloody hell! This takes me back They go with chicken bricks and maxi dresses don't they? Mum had one. Way back when,

No. I just line a sieve with two bits of kitchen roll folded over and leave it over a bowl for a couple of hours.