Ha! I didn't skip an important step - I told him to buy organic milk! Organic milk is ultrapasteurized, and thus sterile out of the box. Although, granted, I should have drawn more attention to that point. After the first questionably cheesy-smelling batch of yogurt, he would have really cursed my name.
Buying ultrapasteurized saves a lot of hassle - you don't even need the thermometer any more at all.
We used a purpose-built maker until I dropped the plastic jar on the floor - the resulting yogurt explosion covered the entire kitchen with a relatively evenly distributed polka-dot pattern, floor, walls, ceiling, everywhere. The kids really, really tried hard not to laugh.
I considered buying another, but with four of us in the family, making two quarts at a time just wasn't enough throughput; the gallon-jar solution works great for me. I'd already been switching over for some batches, so I retired the yogurt maker entirely after the explosion.
Buying ultrapasteurized saves a lot of hassle - you don't even need the thermometer any more at all.
We used a purpose-built maker until I dropped the plastic jar on the floor - the resulting yogurt explosion covered the entire kitchen with a relatively evenly distributed polka-dot pattern, floor, walls, ceiling, everywhere. The kids really, really tried hard not to laugh.
I considered buying another, but with four of us in the family, making two quarts at a time just wasn't enough throughput; the gallon-jar solution works great for me. I'd already been switching over for some batches, so I retired the yogurt maker entirely after the explosion.