Lakeland Multi Yoghurt and Soft Cheese Maker Recipes Included

Seen i bought the cheese/yoghurt maker i didn’t buy any yoghurt from the supermarket

So much plastic we sent it back. Even the inner bowl was plastic.

I 100% recommend this yoghurt maker. So much so, I bought my daughter one too. It is very easy to make your basic yoghurt and Greek yoghurt in this machine. Don't buy this thinking you can make L Reuteri, or other cultured yoghurts in it. You cant. The temp and timings are not right for those. I bought a Luvele yoghurt maker for that. Do not fear. This makes great yoghurt, and can also make a soft cheese, but I haven't attempted that yet. I actually make yoghurt in this 3 times a week, and always find it does a consistent job. Although you don't get much Greek yoghurt by the time you have strained it, you do get the added bonus of the whey. Don't throw it out! There's so many uses for this golden liquid. It's full of proteins and probiotics. You can drink it straight, add it to your smoothies, replace the liquid in your homemade bread with it, use it to start off a new ferment, or even use it diluted to water your plants. So buy this bargain yoghurt maker and enjoy knowing what you're feeding your loved ones.

I've made yogurt in the slow cooker lots of times, it's a bit of a faff and takes up lots of space on the counter, but always tastes lovely. I purchased the Lakeland yogurt maker purely for the small size, and to regain my work top. I'm so glad I did! I made my first batch yesterday and have the best yogurt that I've ever tasted for breakfast this morning. I made Greek yogurt i e. Strained after it's finished in the maker. After 10 hrs straining (over night) It's perfectly smooth, deliciously thick, so thick in fact that I needed to add some whey back into it to be able to get a spoon into it, and has a lovely flavour. Slow cooker yogurt needs to be left a day or two for the flavour to develop, the constant steady heat of the yogurt maker means that the fermentation process is on point and that flavour is there from the beginning. I like my yogurt quite sour, so next time I'll adjust the timings and add an extra hour or two, a great feature of this machine is that you can program it to your own tastes! There are a couple of negatives, none of the components are dishwasher safe so everything must be meticulously washed by hand (cleanliness is vital for yogurt making) and I'd love for it to have a larger capacity, 1.6l of milk yielded only 700g of extra exta thick Greek yogurt, about the ratio I'd expect, but I'd love to make more in one go. The strainer can only hold 1l of yogurt, so I had to strain the rest through tradational cheese cloth. The instructions do state this, but I wanted a larger batch. The strainer itself is very fine though, not a drop of yogurt escaped and is easy to use far easier than messing with cheese cloth! On the whole this is an excellent piece of kit, and I'd definitely purchase it again. Make sure you also purchase a food thermometer (£4-5ish) if you are yogurt making for the first time, you can't make it without one, and that's something that's not stated in the description. Now back to my incredible breakfast!

I find this yogurt maker very easy to use. It's compact and easy to clean and has enough capacity to make a decent amount of yogurt. I've made the Greek yogurt using the strainer too and it was a success. I would definitely say this is a game changer we never run out of yogurt.

Easy to use and makes delicious yoghurt every time, though I did discover the temperature reading on my machine is 3-4 degrees higher than the actual yoghurt but that's easy to adjust - just lower the temperature setting. This may not matter with normal yoghurt but I use it to also make l Reuteri which needs to ferment around 36 - or 32c in the machine. I would also like additional inner containers though have discovered that tall, glass jars that fit work just as well

Excellent piece of kit. Makes great yogurt af all types and flavours. My particular favourite is Greek full fat. Works with all types milk. Great value too.