lakelandMulti Yoghurt and Soft Cheese Maker Recipes Included

I bought this specifically to make L. reuteri yoghurt - the kind that’s meant to help with gut health, mood, and testosterone levels.My first attempt was in a warm airing cupboard. Not a disaster, but I couldn’t be sure it held the required 38°C for the full 36 hours. Results were edible, but patchy.Enter the Lakeland yoghurt maker: under £30, gives you total control with custom temperature and time settings, or handy presets if you prefer. I set it to 38°C for 36 hours, and the result was spot-on: thick, creamy, and exactly what I was hoping for.Simple to use, easy to clean, and doesn’t take up much space. If you’re chasing perfect ferments (or girthier gonads), this little gadget’s a no-brainer.

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!

My trusty old Lakeland yogurt maker finally bit the dust and I decided to replace it with another of the same make. I cannot fault the yogurt it makes. I use Sainsbury's fat free UHT milk - as I have always done - and 100mls of Yeo Valley Organic Natural Yogurt as a starter. Having read that Greek Style Yogurt has less sugar in it and as I am monitoring my sugar intake (as well as fat intake) I decided to strain the yogurt using the strainer provided. It works well and I like the greek style yogurt it produces but I do feel that for very regular use this strainer is a bit flimsy. I have an old Lakeland cheese strainer that has a metal mesh that is much more robust but would not take the amount of yogurt to make greek style in one go. I feel I may have to seek a replacement strainer (if it is possible to buy one) for the yogurt maker despite being ultra careful with it. Another gripe is that there is no storage for the electric cable as there was on the old model. Hence the 4 star overall rating despite the 5 stars for temperature control, ease of use and flavour. Really, the flavour depends on what ingredients you use.