UK TMX Yoghurt Recipe - via CarolineW

[Thermomixer]

The UK TM yogurt recipe is very different to the Oz one.  Here it is:

1 litre longlife milk
2 Tbsp powdered milk
2 tbsp live yogurt

Put milk and powdered milk into TM bowl and heat 4 minutes / 50 degrees C / Speed 2
Add the live yogurt and mix 3 seconds / speed 8
pour into a thermos flask to keep warm for 8 hours OR leave in the TM bowl on the machine for 8 hours.
Store in the fridge.  Remember to save 2 Tbsp for the next batch.

I've had a try at this, and failed.  I think one (or more) of 3 things may have happened:  1)  left it for too long - it incubated for longer than 8 hours 2) the culture wasn't properly live (a mass produced supermarket organic one, which used the word live, but may have meant something different!) 3) It was disturbed (by husband picking up and asking what it was!) during incubation period, which it hates.

[Thermomixer]

Yeehaa!  I did the yogurt again and it worked this time (used the UK recipe I posted earlier in this thread). 

2 things were different to last time: 
a) husband didn't pick up thermos flask and ask what it was (had florescent DO NOT TOUCH sign on it this time) and
b) the live yogurt culture used was more reliable. 

Not sure which it was that made the difference, but one or both of them did. 

It was slightly thinner than I prefer, so I made some of it slightly runnier still, mixed it with bramble jelly and turned it into drinking yogurt.  The rest I've strained to become Greek yogurt.  Next time I'll add 3 tblsp milk powder rather than 2, and see if that gives me the texture I like.

[Thermomixer]

I used Yeo Valley organic natural live yogurt.  And I used full fat/cream milk.  I've just put on another batch this morning using the 3 tbsp powdered milk, so I'll post how that worked.

[Thermomixer]

Well, batch number 3 failed    After thinking about it, I had done one thing differently.  I had left it for the 8 hours stated in the recipe.  With batch 2 I was out of the house, so it was more like 12 hours.  So I put the lid of the thermos back on, and left it for several more hours.  Lift off! 

Incidentally, I turned the runny yogurt into a yogurt smoothie.  Blended frozen banana and raspberries on speed 10, then runny yogurt and honey at speed 5.  Sieved it to get the Raspberry seeds out (ostensibly for DD, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.  Why would an adult have a problem with seeds in their smoothie?  So it couldn't be for me too, no of course not  )