h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's not superior - it's just more hands on, I guess. Although after the 2nd part of your post I'm less inclined to do it now

Lovely bacteria! Get them while they're warm!

Making yoghurt is just encouraging milk to spoil

And you made me realise I forgot to buy any

Radox The Green

Strange that unmessed about milk costs more than messed about milk...you would thiunk it would be the other way round.

Ok, the real erason it's more expensive is you are paying 'the proper price' for it. The supermarkets screw the farmers (and the big dairies) into the ground to keep the price as low as possible.

I've always been peed off that skimmed cost more than whole milk when they probably remove the fat to make butter anyway.

Surely gold top being more expensive than other types is due to economy of scale. There must be *vastly* more semi-skimmed sold than t'other.

Semi-skimmed milk can be frozen - full milk can also be frozen, but when it's unfrozen the result is aesthetically unpleasing (still tastes the same though).

OTOH, full milk will keep longer than semi-skimmed. If you keep milk for long periods of time (as I do, cos I hardly use ant apart from in .

I buy semi-skimmed, but I really shouldn't.

RF

do you need special equipment to make the yoghurt or can you use a thermos flask? I fancy giving it a go

you can, apparently use a thermos flask. If you can get one of those squat, wide necked ones it is easier to get the yoghurt out.

I use 1 litre jars for mine, with a polystyrene outer thingy. Apparently wrapping it in a towel and putting it in the airing cupboard works well. What you need to make sure of is that your milk isn't too hot or too cold when you add your culture (live yoghurt, which needs to be at room temperature)

Good luck! (let us know how you get on)

where did you get your jars from sho? they sound ideal

I bought them in a Reformhaus shop here in Germany. I guess you could get them in any health-food shop (and a starter culture if you don't have yoghurt to hand)

This is it:
http://www.perfektegesundheit.de/shop/popup_image.php?pID=895

I got the box and the jars, I already had the thermometer.

I don't see how a precise number is any loss over a vague name?

thx sho, that looks good will try to get something similar and have a go.