{"id":1539,"date":"2017-02-28T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:47:32","slug":"make-your-own-yogurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/main\/lifestyle\/make-your-own-yogurt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make your own Yogurt with 2 Ingredients"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article, I want to show you how to make<\/strong> your own yogurt<\/strong>\u00a0on the basis of my personal experience. \u00a0It’s really easy and a fun to try experiment.<\/p>\n

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Why I made my own Yogurt<\/h1>\n

There are a couple of reasons on why I got more into yogurt. Some of them aren’t even related to yogurt itself. For starters, I’ve been experimenting a lot with different quark recipes and different types of brands<\/strong>. As I eat quark almost daily as you can see on my social media pages, I need to mix things up every now and then to keep it fresh<\/strong>, fun, and enjoyable. In the past, I also tried a vegan quark – check out my review<\/a> – for a change. It’s a good alternative to your standard quark and they also have tasty pots of it mixed with fruit pur\u00e9e.\u00a0But in the end, it was still quark and yogurt was a way to give a new taste and texture dimension to my quark recipes and my taste buds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I am someone who’s eager to learn how things work or how they are done. Once I realised that making your own yogurt is ridiculously simple I knew I just had to give it a try<\/strong>. So I went shopping the following day.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>

How to make your own yogurt – Base Ingredients<\/p><\/div>\n

Two ingredients<\/strong> are all you need to make your own yogurt!<\/strong>\u00a0Sometimes you’ll see recipes adding some milk powder<\/strong>, too. The key idea is to make the yogurt’s texture firmer<\/strong>. This is not really necessary unless you use low-fat milk and yogurt as starting base. Or when you really want a rather firm and creamy texture for your own yogurt. I wanted to try it without the powder.<\/p>\n

How to make your own Yogurt:\u00a0Tao of Stefan Style<\/h1>\n

Previously I shared on how to make a basic yogurt. You find plenty of further information in that article.<\/p>\n

Here’s how I made my own yogurt. I got my ingredients ready, went through steps 1-3<\/strong><\/a>. As I didn’t have a machine but still needed to maintain the temperature for hours I had to get creative.<\/p>\n

I put the containers into a cooling bag. They are usually marketed as cooling bags but they are just isolating the interior from the exterior, meaning they keep any temperature<\/strong>. In my case, they keep the heat. I put the bag on a blanket on top of my heating. On top of my bag, I placed a heating pad and wrapped it all up in the blanket.<\/p>\n

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As I had some space left I put another smaller heating pad into the bag. Every now and then (+\/- every 2 hours) I re-heated the top heating pad. After around 8-9 hours I checked up on the yogurt. It seemed to be firm already, so I placed them in the fridge and let it cool down.<\/p>\n

The following day, I gave it a try:<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>

How to make your own yogurt<\/p><\/div>\n

The yogurt was delicious and with my home made chili-strawberry jam, it was heavenly<\/strong>. The process was really easy but with the constant reheating a little annoying. Nevertheless, I was so impressed by the easiness and taste that I bought a machine or rather an isolated yogurt maker:<\/p>\n

<\/a>Once I tried it, I’ll share my experience with this gadget!<\/p>\n

How to make your own Yogurt: Tips and Tricks<\/h1>\n

In the end, I want to share a few tips and tricks with you. As you saw it’s easy to make your own yogurt. You need next to nothing to make it.<\/p>\n

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  • In order to improve the shelf-life<\/strong> of your product make sure you place them in a clean container<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • If you place them in separate glasses<\/strong> make them completely full<\/strong>. They should create a vacuum<\/strong> then and stay fresh even longer (but that doesn’t have to happen).<\/li>\n
  • You can make yogurt out of any type of milk<\/strong> (i.e. dairy or plant-based)<\/li>\n
  • Making quark<\/strong> or kefir<\/strong> is not very different from making yogurt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Most importantly, in order to make your own yogurt even cheaper than it is already:<\/p>\n

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    • don’t eat all of your batch<\/strong>: take some 100g of it as the starter cultures for the\u00a0next batch of yogurt<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      This should work up to\u00a0four times<\/strong>, thus increasing your return on investment dramatically. Take this return and use it for great primary products<\/strong>. The better the food you give your body, the better it will work and the better you’ll feel and perform.<\/p>\n

      Have you ever done your own yogurt? Share your experiences in the comments. I am really looking forward to seeing what you have been up to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In this article, I want to show you how to make your own yogurt\u00a0on the basis of my personal experience. \u00a0It’s really easy and a fun to try experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_3580015876_3580015876":"","facebook_10222714690288203_1473941132908662":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to make your own Yogurt with 2 Ingredients #howto #DIY #tutorial","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,48,27,479,54,478],"tags":[39,320,126,127,306],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-how-to","category-lifestyle","category-nutrition","category-recipe","category-tutorials","tag-diy","tag-food","tag-how-to","tag-recipe","tag-yogurt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/How-to-make-your-own-yoghurt-9.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6IZwn-oP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/main\/lifestyle\/alpro-go-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":1539,"position":0},"title":"Alpro Go On – A Fitness Review","author":"Stefan","date":"April 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"While doing some grocery shopping I stumbled over a new product of the Alpro range. 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