Urgent! Need help with yogurt timing

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Hi listmates -

I am in a schedule predicament today and wanted to get your opinion

about the best thing to do with my yogurt. I started a batch of yogurt

last night at 9:00 pm. As I was putting it on the heat to start

fermenting, I realized that I will be gone tonight starting about 4:00

and won't be home until tomorrow around noon. Obviously, that doesn't

work well with my yogurt finish time of 9:00 pm.

My guess is that I have 4 options:

1. Only ferment it until 4:00 pm (19 hours), which has the risk of

retained lactose

2. " Suspend " fermentation for a few hours today by moving it to room

temp and putting it back on the heat when we leave

3. Put it in the fridge when we leave and resume fermentation on the

heat tomorrow for another 6 hours or so (allocating an extra hour to

bring it back up to temp).

4. Let it ferment the whole time, which ends up being around 40 hours.

What do you think is the best route? I have 3 half gallon containers ...

so I could divide them up and try different things. I figure that worst

case I will just have to start a new batch tomorrow - but it would be

nice not to lose 1-1/2 gallons of yogurt!

Help!

Kathy

UC since 12/05

SCD since 7/07

med-free since 7/08