Yogourmet Multi Electric Yogurt Maker with CBA Starter
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Customer Reviews of Yogourmet Multi Electric Yogurt Maker with CBA Starter
Customer Review: A little pricey
Summary: 3 Stars
I like this machine and it makes better yogurt more consistently than I was able to do without it, but the price does seem crazy to me. I think I paid 73 dollars with tax for what amounts to a small low temperature crockpot.
Also, I ordered the kit with the starter, etc., and I didn't see all those extra ingredients at first (because they are inside the yogurt container itself) which caused some confusion with amazon.com. Also, the thermometer arrived with a dead battery.
So if you are looking for all the extra stuff hopefully this will help, and I'm thinking such a simple device should probably be available cheaper somewhere else.
Customer Review: House unusually cold or hot? This device won't work
Summary: 2 Stars
As another reviewer stated, for the price this device should have a thermostat! The temperature of your ROOM determines the temperature of the fermentation. You don't need a $50 device to achieve that.
We live in the northern US and keep our house at 60° in the winter. The instructions note the difficulty of using the product if it's Summer and you don't have air conditioning. It also mentions that if your room is colder it will take "longer." How MUCH longer? Hours, days, weeks?
My first batch of yogurt didn't start to "take" after 18 hours in the machine. At first I thought there was something wrong with my ingredients or that I'd done something else wrong. I made vanilla ice cream (sorta) with the batch and restarted ...
I reread the instructions and followed them to the letter. After 8 hours there was still no sign of thickening. I heated my oven to "warm" and set the yogurt maker on the open door. After a few minutes I turned the oven off. I came down every hour to turn the oven on for another few minutes. After another 4 minutes I checked and the yogurt was perfect. Next time I'll try putting the machine in a cooler with some hot towels.
Sheesh!
Customer Review: less than a year and it's overheating
Summary: 2 Stars
When we first got this, it worked great, we left it overnight and it created great yogurt. Then it started curdling the yogurt so what we got was more like ricotta cheese. We thought we were doing something wrong, but we've noticed that the temperature when we open it has been way too hot, over 112 degrees, which I think is why it's curdling. After reading other peoples comments, I'm wondering if it started at the beginning of summer when the weather warmed up.
We bought it because we were making yogurt in a crock pot waterbath which we were getting tired of monitoring the temperature all the time. Sounds like we have to do the same with this product now too or we end up having to trash the ruined yogurt, which we are paying $7/gallon for the milk we use. I will probably putter around with it to get it to work right, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it for someone who wants to make 'fuss free' yogurt.
Customer Review: Good yogurt maker - but has a fatal flaw
Summary: 2 Stars
I loved this yogurt maker when we first got it. The water bath maintained an even temperature, and the container that came with it sealed well for storage (almost too well, as it was a little hard to get off till you learned the right tweak needed to get the lid off). I was very happy with it, as it was saving the large number of yogurt containers that otherwise were building up in our house! But after about a year, the inner plastic cylinder split down a the bottom edge, causing the water to leak out onto the counter and into the electrical parts of the unit. I tried patching it (duct tape actually worked for a couple uses) but the type of plastic does not seem to bond with the sealants I was trying to use. Too bad, because like I said, it worked very well otherwise.Customer Review: 1 year later...
Summary: 1 Stars
I was initially VERY happy with my Yogourmet and even taking into consideration the reviews that said the thermometer breaks quickly (and mine did) was still quite pleased. A year has gone by and now I'm not so happy as it collects moisture inside the electrical area to the point that we have to unscrew the base, take it apart, pour it out, dry it out and reconnect for each batch made or risk electrical shortout, etc. The product is too expensive to poop out in only a year and now I can't find the manufacturer to request a replacement. This is a significant safety hazard. The yogurt itself has been great each time.