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Adventurer
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 12:58 am Post subject: Yogurt Makers and Yogurt Making Questions |
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| I have tried all kinds of yogurts here, in Korea, and they don't taste like traditional yogurt that one associates with Bulgaria, Turkey where it came from or the West. It's fine if you're Korean, but if you want yogurt with no sugar that won't do. So, I am thinking of buying one of those yogurt makers and making my own. Any ideas how I would go about doing so. I have never made yogurt before. I would appreciate some pointers. I saw a maker for 65,000 won, but I want pointers before buying it. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| Look at the Hannam-dong "Red Door" Foreign Foods Market for them. They seemed to be cheaper than what you're quoting. The also have the cultures there. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| my wife makes it for the kids and uses 불가리스 drinking yogurt to start it as it has live yeast. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: Re: Yogurt Makers and Yogurt Making Questions |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| I have tried all kinds of yogurts here, in Korea, and they don't taste like traditional yogurt that one associates with Bulgaria, Turkey where it came from or the West. It's fine if you're Korean, but if you want yogurt with no sugar that won't do. So, I am thinking of buying one of those yogurt makers and making my own. Any ideas how I would go about doing so. I have never made yogurt before. I would appreciate some pointers. I saw a maker for 65,000 won, but I want pointers before buying it. |
i buy denmart plain (no sugar) yogurt - sold at department stores and costco. most grocery stores i've been to don't have it. |
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| If you can get some yogurt with live bacteria, just stick a dollop of it in some milk and it'll yogurtize the milk in a few days. |
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corroonb
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| I bought Demark Yogurt in the local Lotte Mart and its definitely not sweet. I'm gonna us it with my tortillas (2 frozen packs of 8 from Lotte Mart) to make fajitas. Yum! |
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Nicco61
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: North Carolina, USA
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| Saxiif wrote: |
| If you can get some yogurt with live bacteria, just stick a dollop of it in some milk and it'll yogurtize the milk in a few days. |
Yes that will work...you might want to place the containers on a heating pad set on low to keep warm. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| I have a yoghurt maker and it's really good! |
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Lynns
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Yogurt makers in Korea are way overpriced. 65,000 won is too much. If you're going to pay that much, you might as well just buy the little cups of Denmark yogurt (it is good but expensive).
I finally found a yogurt maker at an E-Mart for under 20,000. If you can't find one for a reasonable price, you can just mix up a batch in a mason jar and use a heating pad to ferment it at a low temperature. The yogurt maker is not really necessary, but it does make it simpler to regulate the temperature during fermentation.
Use google and you'll find all sorts of recipes and explanations about how to make yogurt. It involves heating to a certain temperature, cooling, adding yogurt/starter, and then holding it at a low heat to promote fermentation. You may want to add dry milk to increase the protein content or improve the texture. There are a lot of possible variations, so it's a good idea to read up on it first. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Lynns wrote: |
Yogurt makers in Korea are way overpriced. 65,000 won is too much. If you're going to pay that much, you might as well just buy the little cups of Denmark yogurt (it is good but expensive).
I finally found a yogurt maker at an E-Mart for under 20,000. If you can't find one for a reasonable price, you can just mix up a batch in a mason jar and use a heating pad to ferment it at a low temperature. The yogurt maker is not really necessary, but it does make it simpler to regulate the temperature during fermentation.
Use google and you'll find all sorts of recipes and explanations about how to make yogurt. It involves heating to a certain temperature, cooling, adding yogurt/starter, and then holding it at a low heat to promote fermentation. You may want to add dry milk to increase the protein content or improve the texture. There are a lot of possible variations, so it's a good idea to read up on it first. |
I may be intelligent but it is easier for me to learn by example. I think a yogurt maker would make things much easier. I suppose I could do without the makers. Ultimately my goal is not the yogurt but to ferment it further to make this healthy food called Labneh which has certain health benefits. Where can you buy yogurt starter? I don't think simply adding Korean yogurt to milk would do the trick? Plus, Korean yogurt has sugar which I kind of want to avoid. I will definitely look up websites for making yogurt. Maybe a maker is not necessary if I can find the necessary culture. After all, I can't read the yogurt maker's instructions in Korean, so I might have better luck doing it the old fashioned way. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| A few years ago, while I was living in Japan, Caspian Sea yogurt was all the rage. People were passing samples to friends with the recipe on how to cultivate it in your fridge. I would suspect that a health food store, if one exists in Korea, should be able to hook you up with something you could make at home without the need for some expensive contraption. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| Lynns wrote: |
Yogurt makers in Korea are way overpriced. 65,000 won is too much. If you're going to pay that much, you might as well just buy the little cups of Denmark yogurt (it is good but expensive).
I finally found a yogurt maker at an E-Mart for under 20,000. If you can't find one for a reasonable price, you can just mix up a batch in a mason jar and use a heating pad to ferment it at a low temperature. The yogurt maker is not really necessary, but it does make it simpler to regulate the temperature during fermentation.
Use google and you'll find all sorts of recipes and explanations about how to make yogurt. It involves heating to a certain temperature, cooling, adding yogurt/starter, and then holding it at a low heat to promote fermentation. You may want to add dry milk to increase the protein content or improve the texture. There are a lot of possible variations, so it's a good idea to read up on it first. |
I may be intelligent but it is easier for me to learn by example. I think a yogurt maker would make things much easier. I suppose I could do without the makers. Ultimately my goal is not the yogurt but to ferment it further to make this healthy food called Labneh which has certain health benefits. Where can you buy yogurt starter? I don't think simply adding Korean yogurt to milk would do the trick? Plus, Korean yogurt has sugar which I kind of want to avoid. I will definitely look up websites for making yogurt. Maybe a maker is not necessary if I can find the necessary culture. After all, I can't read the yogurt maker's instructions in Korean, so I might have better luck doing it the old fashioned way. |
Nah, it's the easiest thing in the world with a yogurt maker. Here's how you do it:
-Buy a litre of 매일우유
-Buy a thing of 불가리스.
-Open the milk, drink a wee bit so that there's room to put the Bulgaris in, then put it in. Then stir it with a chopstick or something long. Then pour it in the glass containers. Then put the lid on the maker and turn it on. Let it sit for six to eight hours. Then open it, put them all in the fridge, let it cool off and you're done. |
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Nicco61
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: North Carolina, USA
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Why would you want to buy a yogurt maker. Also yogurt is a live culture so once you get it started just save a bit to start the next batch. Like sourdough bread.
Just google "make yogurt heating pad" and you will get a bunch of links. If you have a warm spot in your apartment during the summer you can make it there. The ondol head would probably work in the winter.
Save your money. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Nicco61 wrote: |
Why would you want to buy a yogurt maker. Also yogurt is a live culture so once you get it started just save a bit to start the next batch. Like sourdough bread.
Just google "make yogurt heating pad" and you will get a bunch of links. If you have a warm spot in your apartment during the summer you can make it there. The ondol head would probably work in the winter.
Save your money. |
I think the post above makes it seem easier to use a maker. I understand without a maker you boil milk and then simply whisk some yogurt into it. I got this one fellow's recipe. I'm still leaning towards the yogurt maker, but I may drop the idea. I just don't want to know if it is simply just add yogurt to the milk that has been boiled after having have
turned off the heat and then you cover the pot of milk after that and wait some hours. At least, that's what I understood. If that's all there is to it, then I could do it without the maker. Is it easy to boil the milk too much? There was some caution about doing that too much. Anyone here make yogurt at home? |
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amanda114
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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Go and buy yourself an 'easi-yo' yoghurt maker. These are available at most of the black market places, I know for sure they have them at Hannam. The container is like 25,000 and the sachets like 7,000 for a litre of yoghurt. I buy my flavors on their website. Go to http://www.easiyo.co.kr All your yoghurt woes will be sorted.
Cheers |
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