Are yoghurt makers any good and can they make fromage frais?

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Am spending a fortune on fromage frais as my two are addicted. Trouble is I've got them addicted to a v expensive organic one. Started buying it cos its got less sugar than any others, but am wondering if I can save money by making my own.

Or they might like some yoghurt which comes out of their own special machine.

Anyone got a yoghurt maker, is it easy to use, is what it makes edible and do you use it regularly or is it consigned to the gadgets graveyard?

Oh, and what sort is it, where from and how much did it cost?

Ta

bump - I know its boring but I only found out yoghurt makers exist cos of Mumsnet!

Lakeland ltd do a yog maker fairly cheap. Loads of people rave about it. I think it's called easy yo. I'll have a look.

Had a quick look. The maker is £13:95, and you can get different styles. natural, greek, bio etc.

We had the easy yo. Trouble is the refills, which are a sort of powder that you dilute, cost about the same as a pot of plain yoghurt! Tastes perfectly nice, but not a great money saver. And you can only get the powder from Lakeland!

one of the shopping channels does easy-yo sky 635 think its ideal world

Thanks folks.

Lakeland do another one which is about £20 and you don't need to buy the refills.

To use it, you put 2 teaspoons of yogurt in the bottom, stir in a carton of UHT milk (you can get organic, whisk in a little milk powder if you want it a bit thicker, turn the switch and walk away from it. Come back in 8 hours (doing overnight is ideal) and you have plain yogurt. You can buy squirty stuff to add flavour to it or add puree, jam, chocolate powder, anything you like really. You can then save 2 teaspoons of that batch to get the next.

HTH

PMD, isn't fromage frais a cheese and not a yoghurt? If you look at the ingredients I think cream is a big component! If you do a search on homemade fromage frais/blanc, a couple of recipes will come up, eg:

homemade fromage blanc