TARRAGON & THYME

The Easy-Yo flask which I referred to in my earlier post on yogurt is in effect a thermos flask but one that is not breakable, and extremely easy to clean.  Obviously Easy-yo sell the kit and the sachets  to make a profit.  However their flavoured yogurt sachets are lovely and make a very good yogurt, but as I make yogurt a couple of times a week I tend to make it plain so that I have the choice of what I do with it. I do add fresh or pureed fruit, or tinned fruit to the yogurt and I also dribble it over my cereal.  Just for two sachet's that would be in the region of £6 per week just for two batches. The sachets make 1 litre of yogurt at a time.  That is why I have continued to date to continue the plain yogurt just utilising the Easy-yo thermos without using the sachets, although I do buy these every so often. The sachets are very easy to use you just make the sachets up as directed on the back of the packet which is basically adding water to the mix, st...

I use an Easy-yo Flask for making yogurt even when I am not using their prescribed mixes.  I make my own mix.  However the reason I use the Easy-yo flask is that it does not use electric.  All you have to do is boil a kettle.  You can leave this overnight and it is ready in the morning.  I have about four of the flasks and you should be able to achieve a litre of natural live yogurt from each session.  When you have children at home they will eat you out of house and home but yogurt, especially live yogurt is extremely good for you and yet the supermarkets charge you an arm and a leg.  This is also a cheap way of making home made yogurt.  I paid 95p for 1 litre of pasteurised long life milk.  A sachet of the Easy-yo starter costs about £3 or cheaper if you get a box of them. Why sterilised milk.  Using a carton of sterilised milk is quicker.  It has already been heat treated.  All you need is the inner flask from the Easy-...