First Yogurt

I did it! I made my fist batch of yogurt. All kinds of things went wrong but the yogurt still turned out just fine. I used the cheap 2% milk found a my normal grocery store. I used a candy thermometer that I already had. A normal pot and 8 oz canning jars. I used the half gallon recipe because I did not want to waste a whole gallon of milk if I did it wrong.

Most of the cooking went fine except that the milk scorched on the bottom of the pan but I just did not scrape it and the yogurt tasted normal. I tried to pour the milk in to the jars from the pan but ended up getting it everywhere. I put the milk in to a pitcher and had much better luck. Then I had more milk then jars so I had to use a clean spaghetti sauce jar. Then there was not enough room in the cooler for the big jar. Lucky for me, I found a very fat thermos that worked just as well. Then I fell asleep and let the yogurt sit for longer then 3 hours. At 3:30 am I tip toed down stairs and looked at my yogurt. It was solid! I had done it! I put the yogurt in the fridge and went back to bed. Then next morning I served it to the kids with honey in it. They loved it.