# I got my yogurt maker! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-yogurt-maker/289519 "2005-02-11T02:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-yogurt-maker/289519/1 "2005-02-11T02:58:01Z")
I mentioned in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=299277) thread that I was buying a yogurt maker. Well, it arrived about a week ago. It’s a nice looking little thing, small and compact, and fits in the corner of my counter. It was really easy to make yogurt in it, too. First I filled my glass measuring cup with four cups of skim milk and stirred in a half cup of powdered milk, Kroger brand. I put it in the microwave for eight minutes. I took it out and tested the temperature – it was at 150 degrees F. I had to let it cool forever to have it reach 110. Then I stirred into the milk, very gently, half a cup of plain yogurt. I poured this mixture into the yogurt maker and turned it on. Five hours later I had yogurt! _dances_ I had bought six little containers that held a cup of yogurt each. I put a little less than a tablespoon of apricot pie filling into the bottom of each container. Then I drained the whey off the yogurt and filled each container full. Then I put the containers in the refrigerator. The yogurt is very flavorful. I think it is lighter in texture and sweeter than regular plain yogurt in the grocery store. However, it did produce a lot of whey, which I wasn’t expecting. And it looked lumpy, but those lumps broke down easily when I stirred the filling into the yogurt. I have bought blackberry, strawberry, mixed berry, coconut, and sweet nut pie filling. I can’t wait to do it again, but I need to empty the containers before filling them again. Experiment successful!