What am I doing wrong?
Tried to make yogurt using skim milk and some starter that I made from probiotics. Fermented it in a yogurt maker for about 11 hours, and it turned out like this.
What am I doing wrong? Is there too much fermentation, or not enough?
Posted Nov 4, 2017, 3:54 PM UTC
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Did you heat the milk up to 180 F and then cool it back down before placing it in the yogurt maker?
Yep, lowered it to 120 F before adding in my yogurt starter (which is a small amount of yogurt I made from a probiotic starer pill).
Probiotic starter pill? Never tried it before. How does it smell? If it smells like yogurt, then I have a couple theories. One, the Probiotic pill had something that out competed the lactobacillus. Two, the incubation time was too long and let the bacteria completely consume the lactose. Three, the Probiotic pill added a ton of bacteria compared to the amount of milk.
I made yogurt in 3 gallon batches and used freeze dried culture. I put enough to cover the end of a butter knife for that batch size.
Try again and check it every 3 or 4 hours to see how it is setting up.
Ok, will try. I had a suspicion that I may have been using too much starter. Thanks!