Need help with yogurt making

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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.