Homemade Yogurt **Updated** Cheese and Buttermilk

[ozark hen]

Dilly girl, I filled three jars with very hot water and wrapped them in towels and put them on the front porch in the cooler when it is hot outside, it works very well. I also put a thick towel over the tops of the jars before closing the cooler lid. My cooler is in the shade on the porch and like I said, it does work.

 

[MissPrissy]

Maybe I read it wrong, OH, but I thought she was asking about only using the cooler in the sun and not jars of water. I could be wrong but that is how I read it.

 

[ozark hen]

Hmmm, Miss P. I don't know now that you said it like that? I was posting the same time you were before and I am much slower. LOL Maybe she will answer?

 

[Dilly]

What I meant or want to do is since it is so hot here during the days. Is to put the hot water jars along with the yogurt outside on the deck. I was asking if this was okay, or should I leave it inside at room temp.

If Outside as ozark does, should I avoid direct sun?
She mentioned placing cooler in shade.

Thanks ladies.

 

[ozark hen]

When I made my yogurt last summer, I placed the hot water jars, wrapped in towels inside the cooler and put the cooler in the shade on the porch, no direct sunlight. I also placed a towel over all the tops of the jars to keep the heat in until the yogurt was finished. That is how I did it myself, I learned from Miss P. so what she says, in my book, is the bottom line.

 

[Dilly]

Miss P. I see where it read as you quoted. I was only asking if I should ssit it outside in the sun, along with the water bottles added.

I will just do it and leave it inside to be safe. I had not read your first reply on the previous page prior to answering last time.

So here it goes. Another yogurt maker in the works.

Dilly

 

[lilcountry]

I am just catching up but misspriss you mentioned local fresh milk or something in the beginning, like from a local dairy farm or straight from a cow or its just processed locally?

 

[MissPrissy]

You can't buy fresh raw milk here for human consumption. The milk I refered to was the milk that had been processed from dairy cows, bottled and brought back for sale.

 

[lilcountry]

Ok I was just wondering...I work on a farm though and we make homemade icecream to sell and other stuff etc, but the farm that we buy our cream and milk etc from to make the icecream actually sells in a small chain grocery market here, and I just recently found out, and it is really good, Im hoping to start buying there. I was just curious thanks

 

[mangled]

Another converted family here, folks.

Finally got around to making a batch, we had it for breakfast this morning. The quart did not survive the meal.

I just flavored it with vanilla, so it wasn't dressed up at all, the kids inhaled it, and my husband, who is not a yogurt eater, had two huge servings. What was left in the jar was eaten out of the jar by the kids as I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes.

I've got another quart going right now. No more store bought yogurt for us!

Now if we could just get set up for those milk goats....

Em