Hello guys, it is me back yet another to make another home made yogurt. The flavour this time is Sweet Greek Yogurt. Basically it means that there will be sugar added to the Greek Yogurt. In this case, Easiyo has added the sugar into the Yogurt Base (mix) pack so you don’t have to do it yourself. If you don’t know what the difference between a normal yogurt and a Greek yogurt, then let me enlighten you. Greek yogurt is actually normal yogurt which whey has been strained away. So you get a creamier and thicker yogurt. In order to achieve this, what Easiyo has done is to add more milk powder to the mix. So instead of your usual 225gm of yogurt mix, for the Greek style yogurt, you will have 240gm of yogurt. Smart right? This way you add less water and it feels like the yogurt is thicker and all. Give the Easiyo guys a thumbs up for their great effort in getting us Greek style yogurt and making it easy for us to do.

Okay then, we shall begin my yogurt making adventure. It takes all but 15 minutes to do this yogurt.

There we have, all the ingredients needed to make the Sweet Greek yogurt. You have the Easiyo Yogurt Jar, the Easiyo flask and the Easiyo Yogurt Sweet Greek base and cutures. That’s all you need to have 1kg of very tasty yogurt (hopefully) to enjoy. And it is fresher than what you get from the stores which is probably a few days or weeks old when it reaches you.

The photo is showing me pouring the yogurt mix into the yogurt jar. The mix really does look like powdered milk. Well, it actually is powdered milk.Of course, they have added freezed dried cultures into the mix. Once the temperature gets warm enough, the freezed dried cultures will then do their job which is to convert the milk to yogurt and we will all be happy.

The powedered milk reaches the 500ml mark! We then add water to the top, cover the jar tightly and shake the jibbers out of it. You will need to ensure that there is no powdered milk left and they must all be dissolved into the water.

Add water to the jar and watch the bubbles form instantly! Pretty cool. You can hear the soft popping sound from when the milk is dissolved into the water.

Ya, all dissolved and this smells exactly like milk (well because it is milk). Well, it smells like what I had been drinking when I was younger.

You will then need to open up the jar and top up with water to the top. Remember, after topping up, shake the jar again to mix the contents. You don’t want the top to be too diluted and the bottom too thick. You will get very weird yogurt if you do that.

Put the baffle into the flask. You will need to ensure that the baffle is firmly sitting on the bottom.

You can see that the baffle is sitting firmly on the bottom of the flask. This tells you what level to pour your boiling water to. It is important to get this right as this will affect the termperature of the flask and hence the temperature of the yogurt container. Yogurt cultures need a specific temperature in order for them to thrive and grow. Easiyo has made it easy for you by providing you with guides and instructions on how much boiling water to add.

Okay, we have added boiling water to the flask. As you can see, I am using slightly less boiling water than what Easiyo had advised. This is due to the fact that Singapore’s weather is warm. If you stay in a warm climate like Singapore, you should also try with less boiling water.

After that, place the yogurt jar into the flask.

Cover the flask and leave the milk to ferment. Do not disturb the flask. Easiyo’s instructions were to leave it for 8 hours or more. However, I found that I don’t get yogurt in such short time. I will need at least 12 hours in order to get the proper yogurt thickness and firmness. Anyway, it should be no problem to leave the yogurt longer. However, it is not recommended to leave it for more than 24 hours. Remember, the longer you leave your yogurt to ferment, the more tart it will be.

Life is good when you have both beer and yogurt to enjoy.

Update 23/11/2008: A picture of the sweet Greek yogurt as below. Looks very creamy and thick, just the way I like it.

This is pretty difficult to stir to a consistency unlike the others I have tried. It tends to lump together. Anyway, for the taste, it taste just like any other plain yogurt I have tasted, except a little thicker and much easier to scope. This is supposed to be a sweetened yogurt but to me, Easiyo should add a little more sugar to the mix.