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Making more yogurt than will fit in my cooler/incubator
So, y'all know that I make my own yogurt, right?
The other day, checking the whole milk supply, I discovered 3 half-gallons of whole milk that needed using right away.
"I'll just use it all in one big batch of yogurt. No problem," I thought to myself.
I heated the milk, mixed in some starter from the freezer, and poured into glass jars. Only, there was a problem. My cooler/incubator was not large enough to hold all my jars! Ack!
What to do? What to do????
I came up with a two-tiered incubator solution that worked incredibly well.
After placing brim-filled jars into the cooler/incubator, I had one last half-pint that didn't quite fit.
So I moved all the tall jars to one side, and short jars to the other. Then on top of the shorter jars I added a glass bowl, filled with warm water, to incubate that last and final small jar. The lid shut over all of this just right, and all the yogurt incubated nicely. Problem solved.
It occurred to me that this could work to make multiple individual jars of yogurt, for easy brown-bagging. I could use all half-pints, and again make a 2nd tier to incubate double the number of jars. This 2nd tier could be made from a rectangular plastic container, placed on the lids of the bottom layer of jars.
I'll let you know how that works out . . .
