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[Kimchifart]

Easy Yo yoghurt making flasks or similar (not the expensive electric ones)

has anyone seen one here?

[luckylady]

used to have one but the market stopped selling the yogurt packets so eventually it got thrown out.

made awesome yogurt tho!

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

I make yogurt with my rice cooker. The Homeplus in Ganseok, Incheon, sometimes has the flasks upstairs, in an separate organic shop. I don't recall how much they cost, though, as the rice cooker is a free alternative, seeing as I've already got one.

Also, you don't need yogurt culture packets. Just use a decent-quality yogurt as a starter. I used Denmark plain with no sugar, or goat yogurt (Homeplus often has it.) In a pinch, you could use any type, though.

[luckylady]

yeah, I found recipes later but the packets actually had flavoring too - the strawberry was incredible -

if you use a rice cooker, how do you do that exactly?

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

It's been a while since I've made it (my local Homeplus stocks unsweetened Denmark yogurt more often now, so I don't really need to make it anymore,) but I believe it's something like this:

Put about an inch of water in the rice cooker.
Sterilize a bowl or jar, and add almost enough milk to fill it, as well as a yogurt starter (I use a single serving yogurt) and cover loosely with cling wrap.
Put in the rice cooker, but don't set it to "cook" but just "warm." Leave it overnight (between 7 and 10 hours.)
Unplug it for one hour and let it cool, but don't open it to release the heat that built up.
Plug it back in for 1 more hour and keep it on "warm."
Take it out and let it cool. Dont' stir.
It's better to do this in a jar that you can automatically screw a lid onto, but you could always transfer it from a bowl to a jar.
I make it plain with no sugar, because I prefer to have options, like adding fresh strawberries, honey, muesli, raisins, or eating it plain.

Enjoy!

Oh! Seoul Milk works really well with this recipe. Regularly, I use Pasteur milk for cereal, tea, etc, but for yogurt Seoul Milk works best, from my experience.

[Troglodyte]

I've never used a rice cooker, but i presume that you just leave it on a very low temperature to keep the milk warm and mix in 1 or 2 spoonfuls of yogurt.

I have made yogurt in a regular pot. You get a big pot with water and set it to low heat on the stove. Try to keep it low enough to keep it from boiling too much. Then you out a smaller pot inside the water pot. The smaller pot holds the milk. You heat the milk. Drop in a spoon or two of yogurt and then put the lid on it and leave it to grow. You can get a special pot that have an inner and outer wall. Between the two you fill it with water. These are used whenever you want to prevent the contents from boiling.

Alternatively, boil the milk to sterilize it. Let it cool a bit. Drop in a bit of yogurt. Put the lid on it. Leave it sitting on the radiator for a couple days. Voila! You have yogurt. Mix in jam as you prefer.

[Kimchifart]

Interesting...

Can anyone think of an online place that might have them. I know I can make it on the stove, but it's so convenient to use the flask. Have one back home but it's too pricey to send over.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

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