# Yogurt is not delicious **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773 "2019-04-19T14:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![MarvinKitFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MarvinKitFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarvinKitFox)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/121 "2019-04-24T08:18:13Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Apparently the OP is triggered by certain types of advertising. I would recommend therapy. ^ this ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/122 "2019-04-24T08:50:50Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ve never had any reason to try it. Then you have zero basis for making elaborate comparisons to ice cream… BTW, ice cream made with eggs is also definitely not flavourless, even without vanilla and sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/123 "2019-04-24T10:54:10Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Think I’ll try out making yogurt in my Insta Pot. Will report back with results. A few months back I started doing this, in an attempt to use less plastic and to save money. Our family eats a couple of cups of yogurt most days, and I was spending about $10 a week on yogurt. The Instant Pot method is awesome. You have to build a routine around it, though. I\* start around 7 pm, putting a gallon of milk on “boil.” It’s done before 8, and then needs to cool for about an hour. By 9, I add the quarter-cup of yogurt to the cooled milk and set it on an 8-hour yogurtizer setting. Next morning, I put the yogurt into two cheesecloth-lined colanders over bowls, and put them in the fridge. After work, I come home, decant the super-thick yogurt into containers (getting about 1/2 gallon), and pour the whey into a jug, to use in smoothies and bread and such. It’s a lot of little 2-3 minute jobs scattered across a day; but it’s very inexpensive, and it’s great yogurt, and being able to doctor it with the exact amounts of additions you want (jams or honey or whatever) is awesome. - or my wife ---
**Author:** ![SOJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SOJA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SOJA)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/124 "2019-04-24T11:34:04Z")
I like plain yogurt. The sourer the better. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/125 "2019-04-25T13:31:21Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > A few months back I started doing this, in an attempt to use less plastic and to save money. Our family eats a couple of cups of yogurt most days, and I was spending about $10 a week on yogurt. > > The Instant Pot method is awesome. You have to build a routine around it, though. I\* start around 7 pm, putting a gallon of milk on “boil.” It’s done before 8, and then needs to cool for about an hour. By 9, I add the quarter-cup of yogurt to the cooled milk and set it on an 8-hour yogurtizer setting. > > Next morning, I put the yogurt into two cheesecloth-lined colanders over bowls, and put them in the fridge. After work, I come home, decant the super-thick yogurt into containers (getting about 1/2 gallon), and pour the whey into a jug, to use in smoothies and bread and such. > > It’s a lot of little 2-3 minute jobs scattered across a day; but it’s very inexpensive, and it’s great yogurt, and being able to doctor it with the exact amounts of additions you want (jams or honey or whatever) is awesome. > > - or my wife Do you get up at 5 to move it to the fridge? I haven’t tried this mostly because the timing seems awkward. But we eat a lot of yogurt, and it might make sense for us. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/126 "2019-04-25T13:41:52Z")
I use pretty much the same method but with adjusted timing. I start the boil cycle around 10 pm and the yogurt cycle around 11, and put it in the fridge a bit before 8 when I leave for work. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/127 "2019-04-25T13:43:11Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I used to think vanilla yogurt was plain yogurt. > > I learned here a few years ago they sell a yogurt with no added flavoring. > > I’ve never had any reason to try it. > > I buy Stonyfield vanilla yogurt or their strawberry yogurt. At least where I am, plain, whole-milk Stonyfield yogurt is in the same chiller in the supermarket as the flavored stuff. I recommend you try it at least once. It’s quite good without anything added to it but can be used as the basis of other things. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/128 "2019-04-25T13:43:12Z")
(And I cool the milk in a sink full of cold water. Takes about 10 minutes,) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/129 "2019-04-25T14:32:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > At least where I am, plain, whole-milk Stonyfield yogurt is in the same chiller in the supermarket as the flavored stuff. I recommend you try it at least once. It’s quite good without anything added to it but can be used as the basis of other things. Yeah, and oh so much better without the sugar and flavorings. I liked Stonyfield better when you could get it with the cream top (unhomogenized) but it’s still a very pleasant yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/130 "2019-04-25T14:40:21Z")
I agree that it’s good yogurt but I was just suggesting that **aceplace57** try _any_ brand of plain, unflavored, unsweetened whole-milk yogurt. I’m slightly amazed that there are people who have never done so. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/131 "2019-04-25T19:45:59Z")
I’ll pick up a couple plain Stonyfield to try. See if I like it. I eat yogurt for the Probiotics. It’s helped counter the damage to my digestion from taking antibiotics. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/132 "2019-05-01T03:07:47Z")
I just wanted to add that this thread about the awfulness of yogurt inspired me to pick up a few single-serving containers last week, and I enjoyed them so much that I got more yesterday and am totally back on a yogurt kick! 🙂 This particular stuff is labeled “Balkan style” and has fruit on the bottom that you mix in youself, or not, as you prefer. So far I’ve had strawberry, blueberry, and vanilla. Vanilla doesn’t actually have anything on the bottom, but the vanilla flavoring makes it taste like thick melted ice cream. Delicious! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773/133 "2019-05-01T03:15:07Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > The Noosa brand yogurts are like eating a liquid form of cheesecake. Lots of fats and sugar. Delicious stuff. Yeah, Noosa is ridiculously, sinfully tasty. It’s probably better for you than most desserts out there, but I still treat the damned things as dessert. They just taste too good to actually be good for you. The strawberry rhubarb is particularly my favorite. “Liquid form of cheesecake” is a pretty apt description. Bit sturdier than “liquid,” but that’s the feeling I get from eating it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yogurt-is-not-delicious/832773.md?page=6)