The EasiYo Yogurt Maker

There - I've said it up front. Of all the yogurt makers in the world, this is the one I use, that I couldn't manage without, and that I unreservedly recommend to other people.

EasiYo is the perfect way to make yogurt. I've read (I've absolutely no idea if it is true!) that in a Persian version of the Old Testament it says that "Abraham owed his longevity to the consumption of sour milk." (Genesis 18:8.) Well, I bet Abraham would have appreciated the benefits of the EasiYo Yogurt Maker!

Talk about low tech and no trouble!

I'm not going to tell you about all the benefits of home made yogurt - the fact that you're looking at info on yogurt makers means you're already sold on that. Now you want to know about individual models.

Good Points of the EasiYo System

• Your yogurt is made over a range of temperatures so that each bacteria has its "moment in the sun" when the temperature is just right for optimum growth of that particular bacteria.

• Easy! No pre-heating of milk.

• Quick to prepare. Same reason as above. It is the pre-heating of the milk that makes yogurt making a slow and "tricky" job in many peoples eyes.

• The sachet contains milk powder so that you have a rich and full bodied yogurt. Many systems ask you to add extra milk powder.

• The milk powder is made in New Zealand from the milk of New Zealand cows. It doesn't matter where in the world you live, if you make yogurt using an EasiYo sachet, you're getting all the goodness from New Zealand free range cows. I'm a kiwi so I'm allowed to sound parochial! Our cows graze quality pasture and live outside all year round which means they are disease free and live contented stress free lives.

• The milk powder is spray dried which means that only the water content is removed. Once you add water, it is the closest thing you can get to pure fresh milk.

• The yogurt making bacteria are already in the sachet.

• EasiYo use probiotic strains of bacteria even in their "ordinary" yogurt. All yogurts use lactic acid bacteria - which are a good thing - but often they're not probiotic - which is an even better thing. EasiYo is probiotic.

• You are not reliant on a power source. You need about 5 cups of boiling water to start the process and after that you're free of the grid!

• You can use the EasiYo container without using their sachets if you want to make your own yogurt using a different starter. I do it both ways - sometimes I use the EasiYo sachets and sometimes I use yogurt as a starter.

• No electrics to break down, no 'widgets' to break or fall off - just a basic never-fail system that always works. I've been using the same yogurt maker for over twenty years. There is simply nothing to go wrong with them.

• The Easiyo Yogurt Maker is tremendously popular in New Zealand. We can never figure out why the rest of the world wants to fuss around with heating milk! Let the EasiYo do it for you.

Bad Points of the EasiYo System

I'm struggling to think of any!

• In a tiny kitchen (like mine) the EasiYo container does take up a bit of room to store between bouts of yogurt making - but having said that, it takes up no more room than any other yogurt maker. Let's face it, in a tiny kitchen everything is a problem to store!

  My model is 12 inches tall (31cm) and a width of 6 inches (15cm) wide - so race off and measure your kitchen cupboard!

• The EasiYo sachets don't state the strain of bacteria used on the sachets. I think they don't want to scare folk off with too much science. However, they are happy to give that info when asked and the bacteria are top range probiotics.

Buy EasiYo

To view a variety of EasiYo products including their probiotic starters and their fruit pulps (which can be used in smoothies and on muffins and pancakes), visit Everything EasiYo.

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