Re: OT Re: Yogurt Confusion

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Whatever I have been doing, whatever temp it's been at I somehow don't believe I've made yogurt wrong for eight years without knowing it. I use regular Astro Natural Balkan Style Yogurt as a starter. I've added starter just below 100ºF and as low as 77ºF. I am not planning to move back to New York. The room temperatures may be better there but the rents aren't. It would be embarrassing to tell Elaine's daughter she has given us the wring temperature as she is the custodian of SCD now.Right now we are in the midst of a major snowstorm in Toronto, Canada. The room temperature is 72ºF, 100ºF in the oven where the light bulb is 60 watts. It is  80ºF in the pot where the milk is now cooled.  Outside it's -4 celsius and the dogs insist on going out in the snow which which is currently over a foot (imperial measure). There is thunder and lightening! I am singing "Goodbye Super Tuesday," and getting to bed at a decent hour after being glued to CNN until my eyes began to tear up last night.  I have a bad and mysterious pain just above my waist which suggests something is going on that has no connection to the temperatures for making yogurt so I leave it to all of you to thrash this out and generate enough heat to incubate your yogurt without any external aids :-)Ferna, glad you are "no meds" as we just saw the report on Heath Ledger and the consequences of combining prescriptions.Based on Elaine's daughter's answer (cool to below 110F), I'm going to follow that, but not go below 98F (12 degrees difference) . . . rather than wait to cool to the 70's (40 degree difference) . . . but, that's just my opinion.Seems to me if Elaine wanted us to cool it to the 70'sF, she would have said cool to below 80F.Someone here mentioned the proper cool down temp varies, depending on what kind of starter you're using.  I read that on one of the websites, too.  If ya' google "yogurt making", you'll come across it.Carol, thanks for contacting Elaine's daughter for us <hugs>!Celiac, SCD 8 years,MCS, Latex Allergyhttp://www.celiac.com/authors/143/Carol-Frileghhttp://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcf-diet/sc-diet.htm