Oster Mykonos Greek Manual Yogurt Maker: Create Homemade Yogurt in 1-Quart Batches

Melissa M.: I've had this for a couple months and I'm really impressed. The yogurt maker is essentially a thing that warms up to the temp the yogurt culture works best at. Its simple and does the job well. And the yogurt is better than any I've bought at the store. But it took a few tries to get the yogurt to this point so I'm writing out what I do in stupidly basic detailed instructions that I would have appreciated at first.

I use a pyrex 11 cup dish, whole milk, a 4 quart metal mixing bowl, a flat bottomed wisk, a large sause pan, a digital cooking thermometor and a single serving of unflavored, plain greek yogurt from the store. A note about the 11 cup dish. It holds exactly 11 cups, so put 10 in it because liquid expands as it warms and you want some space at the top of the dish so it doesn't spill and so you can get the lid on. And a note about the thermometer. I got one from ikea for fairly cheap that has a probe that can go in the oven that has a heat proof long cable that connects to a digital contoller where you read the temp and set the temperature you want the thermometer to alarm at. This is nice for yogurt because you leave the long probe in the double boiler while...

United States on Oct 21, 2018

Masselyn: I love yogurt, but had to go vegan a few months ago and seriously miss my Fage yogurt for breakfast. So I dove in, and bought this machine to try and use soy milk to make my own at home. First time was a disaster, though it was edible it was too much like cottage cheese. Second time was a total disaster, THIRD time was the charm. None of this has anything to do with the machine, because that has been the easiest part of the whole process. My mistake was using the wrong milk - so I hope I can help someone else!

I used Silk Unsweetened Soy the first time, but it was NOT smooth and not tangy at all. Second time I used Silk Almond/Cashew and that was a really bad mistake. Tasted awful. So I read and read and figured out the best milk to use (doesn’t really matter what type) is a brand that has water + nut/soy/oat/hemp only. NO other ingredients, no additives or preservatives. Works perfectly, and if you buy shelf stable containers (I have been using WestSoy Unsweetened) then you do not have to heat the milk at all.

(1) open the container
(2) add your starter
(3) close container and shake to make sure the starter is dissolved
(4) add to the machine and turn it...

United States on Jul 04, 2018

Karen: I feel like there are two DIFFERENT yogurt makers advertised on this page, one that makes either one quart or four jars, and one that makes a quart AND six jars. I'd much rather have the larger one, but I was unsurprised to receive the smaller one. It is quite small and takes up very little room on the counter, which is a big perk. Of it keeps working this well, it'll never be stored away, it'll just live in the corner.

So, yeah, it works brilliantly. The instructions are kinda weird - they say to only use 2 2/3 cups of milk. I can only assume that's for the jars (despite it not actually saying that) as the 'quart' container holds about five cups at the max fill line.

I used five cups of (lightly scalded) 1% milk plus a heaping tablespoon of Costco nonfat Greek yogurt for my starter. The instructions say 13 hours for 1%, but I've made yogurt before and I have never left it to culture for more than 12 hours - we prefer it at about eight hours and it's honestly just fine after 4-6. I let my first batch go to ten hours and was very pleased. It's not done straining but I have enough experience to know that it's going to be great.

The strainer itself is pretty...

United States on Mar 24, 2018

San T: La yogurtera es muy fácil de usar, las tapas de los frascos se rompen al menor golpe (son de polipropileno que no es muy resistente a la caída), la tapa transparente de ensamble no tiene muy buen agarre, ni se te ocurra transportarla con los frascos dentro porque es muy fácil de que en el trayecto se mueva. Es bueno buscar en algún lugar de venta de vidrio mas frascos para hacer mas lotes sin necesidad de esperad a desocuparlos, son frascos de 200 grs para miel o de conservas, si los pides en Amazon son muuuuy caros.

Mexico on Mar 02, 2018

Amazon Customer: Christmas gift

Canada on Feb 02, 2018

LEBCHLEBCH: Excelente aparato para hacer yogurt natural y de frutas de tu preferencia (el de mango y plátano me encantaron), en lo personal al querer hacerlo con leche de almendras (12hrs) no salió como esperaba (tal vez lo hice mal), volveré a intentar, fácil y seguro de usar, no se sobrecalienta, los recipientes de plásticos que trae son libres de BPA (muy importante para mí), los envases de vidrio con tapa sellan muy bien, falta instructivo en español, ya que la presentación de la caja (exterior o portada) viene la mitad en español y la otra mitad en ingles, ¿porque no instructivo en español también?, de ahí en fuera todo bien, lo recomiendo, mucho. En lo personal sabe mejor que el yogurt comercial.

Mexico on Aug 17, 2017

JJ: I used a few times and it worked very well.
Their recipe said to boil the milk, which I did the first time and it turned out grainy. When I heated the milk to 185F, the yogurt turned out perfect.

Canada on Apr 08, 2017

Amazon Customer: Made quite a few batches of yogurt in the few days I got it and it I ask myself why I did not buy this earlier.

Canada on Oct 21, 2016