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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 (300g)

Recipe makes 4 servings

Calories 226
Calories from Fat 53 (23%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 5.9g 9%
Saturated Fat 3.8g 18%
Monounsaturated Fat 1.7g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 26mg 8%
Sodium 194mg 8%
Potassium 688mg 19%
Total Carbohydrate 29.3g 9%
Dietary Fiber 0.0g 0%
Sugars 30.2g
Protein 14.6g 29%

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Yogurt, Homemade, from Good Eats, Alton Brown

Recipe #40602 | 6¼ hours | 15 min prep | add private note
Steve_G

By: Steve_G
Sep 19, 2002

Once you've tried this you will never eat yogurt from the carton again! The honey mellows the intense tartness of the yogurt.

SERVES 4 , 1 quart (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    Place yogurt in a bowl and bring to room temperature.
  2. 2
    Heat milk, dry milk and honey to 120 degrees; pour into a very clean container that will be used to make the yogurt.
  3. 3
    It should cool back to 115 degrees.
  4. 4
    Whisk 1 Cup hot milk into 1/2 Cup room temperature yogurt.
  5. 5
    Add yogurt mixture back to warm milk.
  6. 6
    Wrap container with a heating pad and set on low or medium low.
  7. 7
    Be sure to have the pad wrapped around your container so that the heat is evenly distributed around the container.
  8. 8
    Place inside a stock pot.
  9. 9
    Monitor the temperature of the liquid, your target is 115 degrees (perfect temperature for fementing yogurt) and adjust heating pad accordingly.
  10. 10
    If it gets above 120 degrees you'll kill the active cultures, so use a temp alarm if you have one!
  11. 11
    You can also do this on the heating element of your electric coffee maker, but it doesn't provide the heat as evenly as the heating pad and must be insulated with an oven mitt to prevent overheating.
  12. 12
    Allow to sit for 3-9 hrs depending on the consistency that you disire.
  13. 13
    The longer it sits the firmer it gets.

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From: Mami Janine

On Oct 10, 2009

I love this recipe. I don't use a heating pad, I just use the ceramic insert of my crock pot and wrap it in a towel, then I place it inside the oven and let it sit overnight. Thank you for posting this.

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  • From: Connie Lea

    On Oct 5, 2009

    This is the third time I've tried making yogurt (with different recipes). The others were too runny, but this one set up perfectly. I used a long, wrap around type heating pad wrapped around the bowl and in a soup kettle with a heavy towel over the top and let it set for 5 hours. As near as I can figure, it cost about 70 cents to make a big container (one that usually costs almost $3.00 for store bought). Thanks for sharing a great recipe - one I will be using from now on.

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    From: sugarpea

    On Jan 16, 2005

    This ingredient list made the smoothest, creamiest, tastiest yogurt. I have to admit I used a thermos to incubate the yogurt as in DiB's #9955 rather than this heating pad method. I left the yogurt inside the thermos on the counter for 11 hours and then refrigerated overnight. The combination of these two recipes made one outstanding looking/tasting and easy to make yogurt. The texture is thinner than most purchased yogurts and is the only feature I hope to improve on with practise.

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  • From: Gardenforhealth

    On Jan 29, 2008

    I used my yogurt maker. I decided to start making my own yogurt because of all the extras you get in store bought yogurt. All the yogurt at my local store has aspertame now, which gives me horrid nightmares. And now I don't have to toss those plastic tubs into the landfill. I used hormone free milk from my local dairy, if you can get the hormone free the taste is far superior. Much richer and works better in recipes like this. And I used local produced raw honey. I used half a cup of powdered milk. And active culture yogurt starter from my local health food store. It's just like using bread yeast. Even using more expensive ingredients the price was half what store bought yogurt costs. And the result was heavenly. This is a simple process that gives superior results. And I am surprised at how the cost savings adds up. The taste is wonderful and it works better in recipes calling for yogurt.

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