Re: Need help with yogurt making

[Guest guest]

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:39 -0400, fossil.color fossil.color@...>

wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm new to the list and pretty new to SCD. I bought a yogurt maker, and

> I when I checked the temperature of the yogurt, it was up to 120

> degrees. So I bought a dimmer switch and tried that out on my last

> batch. No matter where I kept the dimmer switch, it kept the yogurt at

> 80 degrees- even at the highest setting. Towards the end of the 24

> hours, I just took the yogurt maker off the dimmer switch and let it

> heat up to the 100-120 degrees.

>

> Two questions- If I eat this yogurt, is it going to make me sick since

> it was kept at the 80 degrees for most of the time? (Sorry if that's a

> stupid question, I don't know enough about bacteria growth to know if

> that's OK or bad.)

>

> Also, any idea on what I'm doing wrong with the dimmer switch? I don't

> understand how I couldn't get the temperature to get any higher.

I don't know about the dimmer switch question. But there's no problem with

yougurt incubating at 120 degrees.

n

[Guest guest]

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:38:39 -0400, fossil.color fossil.color@...>

wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm new to the list and pretty new to SCD. I bought a yogurt maker, and

> I when I checked the temperature of the yogurt, it was up to 120

> degrees. So I bought a dimmer switch and tried that out on my last

> batch. No matter where I kept the dimmer switch, it kept the yogurt at

> 80 degrees- even at the highest setting. Towards the end of the 24

> hours, I just took the yogurt maker off the dimmer switch and let it

> heat up to the 100-120 degrees.

>

> Two questions- If I eat this yogurt, is it going to make me sick since

> it was kept at the 80 degrees for most of the time? (Sorry if that's a

> stupid question, I don't know enough about bacteria growth to know if

> that's OK or bad.)

>

> Also, any idea on what I'm doing wrong with the dimmer switch? I don't

> understand how I couldn't get the temperature to get any higher.

I don't know about the dimmer switch question. But there's no problem with

yougurt incubating at 120 degrees.

n

[Guest guest]

Hi n,

Thank you. For some reason I thought that 120 was too high and may kill the good

bacteria. I guess I'll just stick with what I've done before the dimmer switch

and let it hit 120.

> I don't know about the dimmer switch question. But there's no problem with

> yougurt incubating at 120 degrees.

>

> n

>