How to Make Yogurt With Salton Yogurt Maker

Do you love yogurt and spend too much at the grocery store buying ready-made flavored yogurts that are too sweet, too rich and too expensive? Well, what about making your own? Fresh, all-natural, homemade yogurt. Inexpensive, healthy and, best of all, made to order. Sounds perfect.
But if you have tried to make yogurt at home without a yogurt maker, you know that, while simple on paper, when you get down to it, it is often less-than-desirable. It could be too loose. It could develop a strange smell. And you will end up checking on it multiple times to keep those things from happening.
But the Salton Yogurt Maker takes the fuss, the worry and the effort out of the process. Your yogurt will come out beautifully every time---if you follow the instructions carefully.

Things You'll Need

A saucepan
A candy thermometer
4 cups (1 quart) milk (whole, 2%, skim, etc.)
1/2 cup non-fat dry milk powder

1/2 cup plain (unflavored, unsweetened) yogurt with active cultures, or one packet yogurt starter culture
Salton Yogurt Maker
A long-handled spoon

Preparing the Yogurt Mixture

Stir the powdered milk and the liquid milk together in the saucepan. (Powdered milk makes the homemade yogurt thicker.)
Heat the mixture in the saucepan on medium, inserting the candy thermometer. Stir constantly to prevent sticking. Keep checking the temperature of the mixture until it reaches 185 to 195 degrees Fahrenheit. Do not let the temperature go higher than this (or it will boil).
Remove the saucepan and let the liquid cool to about 110 degrees. You can put the saucepan in the refrigerator to speed up the cooling, but if you do, be careful not to let the temperature drop any lower than 100 degrees, or you will have to start over.
When the mixture is lukewarm, stir in either 1/2 cup of plain, unflavored yogurt or one packet of a yogurt starter culture.
Pour the cultured mixture into the container of the Salton Yogurt Maker, and put the container into the base unit. Close the lid. Make sure the base unit is plugged in. (When it is plugged, the signal light will come on.)
Allow the mixture to culture for at least four hours, but no longer than 10. The yogurt will become more tart the longer it is left in the unit.
Remove the yogurt container and either cover it and place it in the refrigerator, or pour the yogurt into another container with a lid. Store in the refrigerator for a few hours before serving.

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