lakelandMulti Yoghurt and Soft Cheese Maker Recipes Included

I've had this yoghurt maker for about 5 years now. It is reliable and efficient and produces great yoghurt.The process I have developed is as follows:Use a basic supermarket yoghurt such as ‘Waitrose Essentials Greek Style Yoghurt’ as a starter. 3 tablespoons more than enough.Keep some spare in case you overheat the milk.You can use some of the fermented yoghurt for the next batch.I ferment at 44°C for 10 hrs.Milk – UHT Long Life is fine, full fat down to skimmed whatever…I measure the milk and starter in the fermenting pot, up to the pot's ridge, then put it in a large jug and heat it in the microwave.All microwaves are different, so heat incrementally and stir and check temperature.I use an 800 W microwave, and for cold milk, start at 3 minutes, then down to 30 seconds and down to 10 seconds, etc. With a couple of uses,I got the whole prep time down to 10 minutes. After fermenting,I allow the yoghurt to set in a fridge overnight or longer. This is important.Straining gives a better end result;if you over-strain, you can beat some whey back in to get the required consistency.The whey can be used for baking, or marinading meat, or in a curry, etc.Save some yoghurt for the next batch; it can be frozen and used later.

Really pleased with this. I've used it to make ordinary live yogurt, L Reuteri yogurt, and Natto (fermented Soy Beans). All came out perfect and it's very easy to use. Looking forward to attempting some Greek-style yogurt and soft cheese.I don't understand the 'flimsy' reviews. It's a yogurt maker and it's strong enough for my purposes. Easy to clean too.

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.

its an absolute banger and very easy to use the only downside for me is it cannot switch itself off and has to be done at the plug.other than that this is a well made easy to use machine that does what i want it to do which is make L REUTERI yogurt which it does like a champ and it can be adjusted to make any other yogurt the amount of time and temp can be selected at will.highly recomended it comes with the strainer and for the price its unbeatable.

Worked well straight away. Strainer really thickens the yoghurt well.The temperature setting is obviously rough, as it's not like there's a probe that goes into the yoghurt, and for best results you might want to trim up/down depending on the ambient, but for the price this little machine delivers. Very easy to turn a litre of milk into yoghurt overnight.

This is more style over substance. It’s a very poor replacement for the original Lakeland yoghurt maker that we’ve used for years. Maybe that’s it – it lasted too long, and wasn’t making much of a profit.Before this, it was 900ml UHT milk and a couple of dessert spoonfuls of Yeo Valley organic natural yoghurt, mixed together with a spoon, left overnight in the gentle heat of the yoghurt maker and in the morning, wake up to a lovely smooth yoghurt.Alas, that machine packed up, so I went online and, after checking ‘Top Picks’ and ‘Best Yoghurt Maker’ reviews, the Lakeland one stood out from the rest. A no brainer I thought.I tried this way and that – using the UHT milk as before, full milk and semi-skimmed milk. None of them looked or tasted like smooth yoghurt, the consistency was very thin and didn’t even look very good. The ingredients were as fresh as you can get.I did notice that a lot of reviews mentioned inconsistency in the temperature, and found that the base of the unit inside was very hot, compared to the gentle heat of original model.Boiling the milk and all that faff was a real pain – guess it’s the ‘health and safety’ attitude that’s so pervasive in today's ‘nanny state’.The instructions state that for the large container (1.8l) 165ml of starter yoghurt is used in 1485ml of milk. That’s equivalent to just over 11 tablespoonfuls, or more than a small shop bought natural yoghurt, which is a ridiculous and excessive amount.The height of the containers is quite impractical too, making it difficult to store in most fridges.This is a very poor replacement to the original model, cheaply made in China.Lakeland are well known for selling quality products, but have let themselves down badly in this case.Have returned it to Amazon for a full refund.Back to shop bought yoghurt in future.

I bought this to make ordinary yoghurt, which it does well. Now I use it to make L.Reuteri and L.Gasseri ‘yoghurts’ where I add the cultures to full cream milk. To make these requires a temperature of 38°C and a 36 hour ferment, which this machine can easily be set to. The results I get are very good and I strain them to get nice thick creamy good tasting results. I notice other comments saying the machine can’t do this but they are wrong and should read the instruction book. I’ve been doing this now for about 4 years and it works perfectly.