Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought "regular"
yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained pectin
(rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).

On Sunday, March 3, 2013 7:39:48 AM UTC-6, Somebody wrote:
> Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought "regular"
>
> yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained pectin
>
> (rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).

Real Greek yogurt doesn't have either. One'd have to be stupid to pay twice
the price for yogurt that has been thickened with pectin or gelatin.

--Bryan

"Bryan" > wrote in message
...

> Real Greek yogurt doesn't have either. One'd have to be stupid to pay
> twice
> the price for yogurt that has been thickened with pectin or gelatin.
>
> --Bryan


what does it have for a thickening agent... jm's bile?

On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 08:39:48 -0500, "Somebody" >
wrote:

>Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought "regular"
>yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained pectin
>(rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).
>
>
It costs more because the yogurt is strained (is that the word I'm
looking for?) to drain off extra liquid and that makes it thicker. In
other words, it takes more milk product to make the same amount of
product. I don't know about the pectin. What brands were you looking
at?
Janet US

"Janet Bostwick" > wrote in message
...

> It costs more because the yogurt is strained (is that the word I'm
> looking for?) to drain off extra liquid and that makes it thicker. In
> other words, it takes more milk product to make the same amount of
> product. I don't know about the pectin. What brands were you looking
> at?
> Janet US


I'm cheap.. TBH, prefer soygurt, for the vegetarianess. But hard to find.
And also not cheap.

Janet Bostwick wrote:

> It costs more because the yogurt is strained (is that the word I'm
> looking for?)

Not really.

> to drain

Oh. Never mind.

On 3/3/2013 3:39 AM, Somebody wrote:
> Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought "regular"
> yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained pectin
> (rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).

It's concentrated yogurt and it's a totally different product from the
commercial yogurt that I grew up with. My favorite yogurt is Greek God's
honey flavored yogurt. The added pectin is for stabilization and slows
down the leaching of water from the yogurt.

It's easy enough to make your own yogurt if you want. I used to make it
when I was a kid. When you strain the yogurt, you get a product similar
to cream cheese and I've made pies using strained yogurt. My method was
to add yogurt to scalded milk and then let the mix incubate in glass
lined thermos bottles. Simple as heck.

On 3/3/2013 3:32 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 3/3/2013 3:39 AM, Somebody wrote:
>> Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought
>> "regular"
>> yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained
>> pectin
>> (rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).
>
> It's concentrated yogurt and it's a totally different product from the
> commercial yogurt that I grew up with. My favorite yogurt is Greek God's
> honey flavored yogurt. The added pectin is for stabilization and slows
> down the leaching of water from the yogurt.
>
> It's easy enough to make your own yogurt if you want. I used to make it
> when I was a kid. When you strain the yogurt, you get a product similar
> to cream cheese and I've made pies using strained yogurt. My method was
> to add yogurt to scalded milk and then let the mix incubate in glass
> lined thermos bottles. Simple as heck.
>
Instead of thermos bottles, you can use an electric warming plate with
possibly a folded kitchen towel between the yoghurt bottle and the plate.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

x-no-arcihve: yes

On 3/3/2013 4:10 PM, James Silverton wrote:

> Instead of thermos bottles, you can use an electric warming plate with
> possibly a folded kitchen towel between the yoghurt bottle and the plate.
>

Or a heating pad wrapped around it, or a small oven propped open
slightly with the appliance light on inside... that last one was the
perfect temp for me in my last house.

Susan

"Susan" > wrote in message
...
> x-no-arcihve: yes
>
> On 3/3/2013 4:10 PM, James Silverton wrote:
>
>> Instead of thermos bottles, you can use an electric warming plate with
>> possibly a folded kitchen towel between the yoghurt bottle and the plate.
>>
>
> Or a heating pad wrapped around it, or a small oven propped open slightly
> with the appliance light on inside... that last one was the perfect temp
> for me in my last house.

My dehydrator works fine too.


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"Susan" > wrote in message
...

> Or a heating pad wrapped around it, or a small oven propped open slightly
> with the appliance light on inside... that last one was the perfect temp
> for me in my last house.
>
> Susan


Funny you should mention heating pad, I had a decent one and it got stuck in
the sofa the other day. I didn't think much of it because it had before
(it's sofa recliner). Well I could not get the cord out to reach the
controller couple days ago. Tugged gently. Still could not. Fished it
out. The cord was 3/4 way frayed with wires hanging out exposed (not sure
for how long TBH now). Had to throw it away.

Dodged another one?

Somebody > wrote:
> "Susan" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> Or a heating pad wrapped around it, or a small oven propped open
>> slightly with the appliance light on inside... that last one was the
>> perfect temp for me in my last house.
>>
>> Susan
>
>
> Funny you should mention heating pad, I had a decent one and it got
> stuck in the sofa the other day. I didn't think much of it because
> it had before (it's sofa recliner). Well I could not get the cord
> out to reach the controller couple days ago. Tugged gently. Still
> could not. Fished it out. The cord was 3/4 way frayed with wires
> hanging out exposed (not sure for how long TBH now). Had to throw it
> away.
> Dodged another one?

Apparently you did.

What a shame. Nothing would have been more appropriate than some
sociopathic sloth being electrocuted while sitting on his ass because he was
too lazy to straighten out a heating pad cord.

On 3/3/2013 11:10 AM, James Silverton wrote:
> On 3/3/2013 3:32 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 3/3/2013 3:39 AM, Somebody wrote:
>>> Why does it cost more than a dollar? For little cup! I thought
>>> "regular"
>>> yogurt was too expensive... The greek that I checked all contained
>>> pectin
>>> (rather than gelatin, which even if kosher I don't want).
>>
>> It's concentrated yogurt and it's a totally different product from the
>> commercial yogurt that I grew up with. My favorite yogurt is Greek God's
>> honey flavored yogurt. The added pectin is for stabilization and slows
>> down the leaching of water from the yogurt.
>>
>> It's easy enough to make your own yogurt if you want. I used to make it
>> when I was a kid. When you strain the yogurt, you get a product similar
>> to cream cheese and I've made pies using strained yogurt. My method was
>> to add yogurt to scalded milk and then let the mix incubate in glass
>> lined thermos bottles. Simple as heck.
>>
> Instead of thermos bottles, you can use an electric warming plate with
> possibly a folded kitchen towel between the yoghurt bottle and the plate.
>

That's an idea, who the heck has glass thermos bottles these days? What
I'd try is to use my oven's proofing settings and sealed containers. Of
course this assumes that my Samsung oven even works!

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