On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deborah) wrote:
I am looking to purchase a yogurt maker for my home. Does anyone have any experience with one of these
Mine is about 20 yrs old, so of no use to you now, but...
Me, I'm an all-around sour-puss; I'll pass up chocolate for Lifesavers any time, my favourite fruits are sour cherries and cranberries, and I carefully pick "not-quite-ripe", when shopping for grapes... :) But DH is born-and-bred Virginian, so sweetness (and light, if available <g>) are paramount, and I've had plenty of time to learn to live with his cravings. Including his craving for gadgets :)
So, we've had, in the murky past, *both* an icecream maker *and* a yoghurt maker... The icecream maker seems to have disappeared from its latest hidey-hole, but I was able to unearth the youghurt maker - it was (has been? <g>) a 5-cup Salton.
Both machines *worked* as advertised, and both were "ditched" before the warranty expired :)
On the icecream machine, my DH said the icecream was coarser than anything store-bought, including the high-priced Bryers. Given that it took 2.5 electric hrs and a load of salt to make a quart (and we're both "energy conscious" as well as penny-pinchin'), we decided it wasn't worth it. Any fruit added to it, was as frozen and as tasteless as that in store-bought, also.
The yoghurt machine... Might have been a hit, if I hadn't been making "pot cheese" on a regular basis :) The "product" came out as 5 cups of pucker-your-mouth-sour "something" which, despite careful measuring of ingredients and 24hrs of being plugged into a steady current, was as unpredictable (as to consistency) as my own "1 gallon of pasteurised/homogenised milk, mix in buttermilk, let sit in warmth for 24 hrs or more before cooking". Flavouring was added *afterwards* - just as I do with the pot cheese. The only difference was that, to get yoghurt rather than pot cheese, I needed to cook my mixture much less (cheaper, energy-wise)
After a while, DH decided to buy youghurt to thin out the pot cheese I make, and the machine was stashed (we *never* throw anything out <g>) in the deep recesses of one of the kitchen cabinets. I'm glad we didn't throw it away; like my early lacemaking samples, it serves to concentrate my mind on mistakes, so that they're not repeated. Otherwise, it's useless :)
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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