Adventures in Yogurt-Making
I like yogurt. When I was a kid, I could not get enough. When I ran out of yogurt that I had picked out, I would sometimes ask my mom if I could have one of hers. Those yogurt cups are not cheap, though. It adds up. So when I read somewhere about people making their own yogurt, I did some reading and decided to give it a try. First, I tried using the flax milk I already had on hand (I'm a vegan) using a store-bough cup with active cultures as a starter. It tasted good, but did not thicken much at all. So I decided to go full-steam from-scratch. I ordered a bottle of probiotic capsules. The bottle I bought was 150 billion, but most of the recipes I found called for a minimum of 50 billion. Again, I tried flax milk, but it didn't work at all. So I finally bought some soy milk, which I'd already known from my reading curdles better than any other vegan milk. I started out with heating the milk to almost boiling then letting it cool down to very warm, but not