Made yoghurt in my slow cooker

No, but have wondered about it. Used to do this in a wide-necked flask in the "old days".
I did wonder if it might get too hot though as mine only has 3 heat settings.
What type is yours Anja?

Bog standard Not mine has three settings too.

Recipe if interested

2l full cream milk
150ml live natural yoghurt

1. Put milk in slow cooker on high until it reaches 82oC (took about 2ish hours)
2. Turn cooker off and leave to cool until milk is 43oC
(another couple of hours)
3. Take a cupful of the warm milk and mix it with live yoghurt then mix that in with the rest of milk in cooker. Stir thoroughly.
4. Put lid back on, cover with thick towel and leave for 10-12 hours (I left mine overnight)

How simple is that?

I have two big pots of yoghurt now in my fridge which will keep for 2 weeks but at the rate we eat it will last a week. Keep 150 mls back for next batch.

PS you only heat up the milk after that cooker stays off.

Anja I make yoghurt in my Instant Pot - like you, just milk and yoghurt, nothing else. It really is the best, isn't it? Can I give you tip? If you use UHT milk, there's no need to heat the milk to 82deg first, just to 43deg then turn off, so no waiting around for it to cool.

Also you don't need that much yoghurt as a starter either. I use just one rounded dessertspoon of yoghurt with 2 ltrs of UHT milk. Using too much starter can actually be detrimental, something to do with the two main cultures fighting each other for the available food. This really went against the grain with me when I first read about it, because I'd been making yoghurt for years in a 7 pot yoghurt maker, using a whole tub of yoghurt to one litre of milk. Sometimes it worked well, other times not so well. Since I've been using less starter it never fails!

Meant to add this link - an experiment using varying amounts of starter.

Ooh, I'm going to try this. So you make a big batch straight in the slow cooker, and then decant into pots?

That’s right Grannyknot

Bathsheba I get organic milk in bottles from milkman. I’m on a mission to cut out plastic and other unrecyclable materials which is part of why I’m making my own yoghurt.

I will be careful not to overdo the culture.

Anja on holiday in South Africa in February, all my friends and family were using beeswax wraps for covering/wrapping food instead of plastic or cling film. I'm completely hooked on them and have been making my own.

They smell so divine and are re-usable, you just wipe them down with a damp cloth.

They are on sale in my local Waitrose (expensive) but anyway it's great fun making them.

Anja good for you. I don't think any of us realise just how much plastic we use until we try to do without it. I have some silicone covers of various sizes which I use to cover bowls and jars to do away with cling film, and I'm planning on making some beeswax wraps as mentioned by Grannyknot. I also plan on making some reusable produce bags for my supermarket shop.

Re UHT milk, the cartons this comes in are recyclable in my area, but I know this isn't widespread.

Gosh , I'm off to try this right now !

Grannyknot how do you make them please?

Anja my friend showed me, but if you Google "making beeswax wraps" there are instructions to be found, this is a good explanation:

[[https://abeautifulmess.com/2018/08/make-your-own-beeswax-food-wraps.html ]]

I didn't sprinkle the beeswax pellets and the resin (as suggested above) onto the fabric - I was shown to melt the mixture in an old pot on the stove, having put the cloth on greaseproof paper on a baking tray (cover the tray to avoid getting the mixture on it), ready to go into the oven for a few minutes (oven on about 100). I then painted the cloth liberally (paintbrushes from The Pound Shop) and then I pop them into the oven. When you take them out, they stiffen really quickly. You have to pick them up by two corners and sort of waft them to dry. Beware of drips on the floor! they are a bugger to clean off, the mixture is sticky before it hardens. Then let them "cure" on more greaseproof paper. They go even more rigid when in the fridge but take on any shape, they can be used and re-used.

I ordered the beeswax pellets and resin online and didn't have jojoba oil so mine have a few drops of lavender oil. I love them! Can't get enough of my beeswax wraps.

Sorry the link didn't work ...

abeautifulmess.com/2018/08/make-your-own-beeswax-food-wraps.html

cover the tray to avoid getting the mixture on it - sorry, I realise this sentence is confusing. What I mean is don't skimp! You don't want to get any of the wax mixture on your baking tray...

Here's one I made, covering a bowl. They go quite stiff when in the fridge, but you just smooth them out again and then they take on the next needed shape.

Thanks GK ??