On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Alok G. Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've been wondering about this too. It is possible to start a culture
>> with store-bought, packaged yogurt but it takes about 3 cycles before
>
> The Nestle Probiotic one or the regular one?
Either. I had some half-baked theories about stabilisation of the
cultures to account for the 3 cycles before the curd tasted good when a
biologist friend of mine shot all of them down. I buy the probiotic
(whatever that means) one purely based on taste now.
>> 'sterilised' before packaging and shipping (quotes are mine). I'm not
>> sure what that means.
>
> Would be interesting to figure out the kill temperature for milk based
> pathogens versus the kill temeperature for the yoghurt culture.
The aforementioned biologist mentioned that there is no significant
difference.
PS. Finding out there will never be any monkey butter was also around
this time.
--
Alok
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you
want the other person.
-- Margaret Anderson
