On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:47:46 -0400, "Dee Dee" >
wrote:

>Don't bother using your just-made yogurt for a starter.
>Buy a good brand of yogurt from the grocery store. Look at the date. It
>should last a couple of weeks.

That's puzzling to me. It seems self-defeating. I bought the yogurt
maker to avoid having to pay outrageous prices for store-bought
yogurt; it doesn't make sense to have to buy yogurt in order to use
it.

I haven't worked out the numbers, but I would think that doing it that
way would cost at least as much as using commercial starter for each
batch.

On another point, my yogurt maker's instructions said to heat the milk
to just below boiling and let it cool off to about 100°F. You said
you warm it to that temperature, no higher. Why do you do it that
way? Do you have problems with "wild" bacteria?