Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 > Hi fellow listmates - > > I have run into a yogurt-making problem after 2-1/2 years of trouble-free yogurt production! I mixed up my standard yogurt containers yesterday (1-1/2 gals of milk, 1 pint whole cream, 1 qt half-and-half), added the correct quantities of Fage starter plus some SCDophilus for the milk, and put it in my trusty oven with the 60-watt bulb. I cracked the door because my oven tends to get a little warm. > > Well I guess it was colder than usual in my house (and thus my oven) last night because the milk didn't set up at all, the cream sort of set up and the half and half didn't set. I checked their temps and they were only at 84 degrees. > > So ... I took them out briefly (and I stirred the milk one to find that it did have some thickening in it) and put the oven on at 170 for just long enough for it to register 170, then turned it off and put the containers back in to try and get them up to temp. Since then, they are all setting up but now the milk has a pretty good layer of galactose on top, which I've never seen before but maybe because I stirred it? > > I hate to trash so much yogurt but I'm not sure what to do about the timing. I was thinking that I could just leave them overnight again to make sure all the lactose gets gone ... but am not sure if I need to be worried about contamination or anything else that could be dangerous. They are all covered. > > Total time so far - about 15 hours at the too-low temp ... now about 6 hours at the higher temp. If I go until tomorrow am, it will be about 40 hours total. > > Do you think this will still be okay to use? Yeah, but you don't have to go the full 24 hours, since some probiotic activity was going on - especially if you had acidophilus in the mix, which likes a lower temperature than thermophilus and the other one. I'd do more like 32-35 hours. Mara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2010 Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 > > I'd do more like 32-35 hours. > > Mara > I'll give it a check right before bedtime. That would be about 30. Maybe I can make myself stay up later than 10 ... and that would add a little more time. Otherwise, I'm not wanting to get up in the middle of the night to put the yogurt away ... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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