the yogurt mystery

[Guest guest]

I think I solved the yogurt mystery :-)

at least the thing that I didn't get. LOL

That was the temperature issue.

Elaine G has the temperature

lower than the way yogurt is made

in dairies and it just didn't make

sense - until I figured out

that the lower temperature will

let the streptoccocus thermo. multiply

faster than the l. bulgaricus who

moves a little slower at the lower

temperature.

That is why the yogurt gets runnier too.

I tried raising the temperature just a litte

and then the l. bulgaricus took over

and the yogurt got really thick (and

also less tart)

The traditional way to make it in Greece

etc seems to be the runnier yogurt.

Since the rule is do what Elaine says, I

am going back to the runnier yogurt

Cecilia