No yoghurt
23 June 2020 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeThe yoghurt was a pretty much total failure... again.
When reheated with additional starter, it appeared very 'corrugated' after eight hours, so something had clearly happened. But when I disturbed that top layer, it turned out to be curds and whey. Not creamy set curd, but just a whole lot of little grains.
I strained it through a freshly-laundered handkerchief, and got something resembling cottage cheese, which has now separated again into a fairly smooth layer on top of more whey. The fairly liquid remnants I put in another pot to use as loose yoghurt, but they separated too, and when I stirred it up again I had to put a lot of jam in to make it palatable.
Out of that two pints of milk I got no yoghurt and very little usable product -- most of it just seems to have ended up as whey. I soaked some bread flour in it and had soaked American pancakes for lunch...
The 'starter' probably isn't worth keeping -- it must be six months or so old by now -- and if I can't manage successful home-made yoghurt when it's this hot overnight, it's probably not worth bothering with it at all. The only remaining motivation, really, is to cut down on the number of plastic pots generated by constantly purchasing new yoghurt.
When reheated with additional starter, it appeared very 'corrugated' after eight hours, so something had clearly happened. But when I disturbed that top layer, it turned out to be curds and whey. Not creamy set curd, but just a whole lot of little grains.
I strained it through a freshly-laundered handkerchief, and got something resembling cottage cheese, which has now separated again into a fairly smooth layer on top of more whey. The fairly liquid remnants I put in another pot to use as loose yoghurt, but they separated too, and when I stirred it up again I had to put a lot of jam in to make it palatable.
Out of that two pints of milk I got no yoghurt and very little usable product -- most of it just seems to have ended up as whey. I soaked some bread flour in it and had soaked American pancakes for lunch...
The 'starter' probably isn't worth keeping -- it must be six months or so old by now -- and if I can't manage successful home-made yoghurt when it's this hot overnight, it's probably not worth bothering with it at all. The only remaining motivation, really, is to cut down on the number of plastic pots generated by constantly purchasing new yoghurt.
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Date: 2020-06-24 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-25 09:30 am (UTC)Whether it's worth it is another question...
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Date: 2020-06-25 12:25 pm (UTC)