Tribest Yolife Yogurt Maker - YL-210

Product Features

• The Yolife Yogurt Maker is the fast and easy way to make fresh homemade yogurt in only 8-12 hours.
• You can make up to 42 oz. of yogurt with the glass containers that are included
• Time indicator to remind you when your yogurt will be ready to eat
• Comes with 7 convenience 6 oz. glass jars, so you can make fresh yogurt for every day of the week
• 5-year warranty

From the Editors

The Yolife Yogurt Maker is the fast and easy way to make fresh homemade yogurt in only 8-12 hours. Simply add milk or soymilk, active cultures (yogart starter) and your favorite flavoings and/or fruit and let the automatic yogurt maker do the rest.
Product Description

Customer Response

Great Yogurt Maker at a Great Price
Works great every time. I picked this one because of its ability to use larger containers. I reuse plastic 2-cup commercial containers. Four fit nicely under the big lid. Since I like extra thick Greek-style yogurt, I add 1-1/3 cups dry milk powder to 7 cups of milk make my base, both non-fat. After heating to 110 degrees, I add the recommended 6 oz active yogurt culture. If you heat the milk too hot let it cool first before you add the active cultures, or you will kill them. Finally I cook the yogurt in the maker for about 20 hours (not the recommended 10) and voila! Thick, creamy, tart yogurt.

Again, don't waste your money...
Sorry to say that this yogurt maker is a bomb. I purchased it so I could make the 2 quart quantities of yogurt at a time, and it gets way too hot and makes a soupy yogurt. I called the company to see if I was doing something wrong, they didn't really know what to tell me as I was doing everything right. I too bought a temperature gauge and found that the temp of the yogurt gets way too hot, 125 or more. I wondered why the flat plastic bottom portion of unit was so hot. There couldn't possibly be ANY beneficial bacteria growing with this kind of temp. This one is poorly designed, really disappointed.

Great Yogurt Maker
After reading so many review about all of these different yogurt makers. I decided to go with the Yolife Yogurt maker. I like the two different lid heights; I make mine in quart jars, and, I like to use the smaller jars when I'm making yogurt for my Granddaughter. I was concerned about the electrical plug not being 110v, after reading one of the reviews. I called and Amazon said they were almost positive it was 110v, however, if I wasn't satisfied I could return it, at no charge to me. I use this yogurt maker every week and would recommend it to anyone looking for an easy way to make their own yogurt.

Too Hot for excellent yogurt
I had made my own yogurt using the sink method which has worked well for me but was troublesome to get up during the night to refill the sink with hot water. but was a proven method to keep yogurt culture at 110f. I wanted something that would keep it at that temperature for the night. I finally got this item an tested the temperature it was very slow to start and i left it as i figured it would be fine, only to come back and find the yogurt temp had risen to 127f. I may have yogurt but it wont be of any good for another batch with those kind of temperatures. I think i will try the heating blanket under the unit and just keep it turned off, might work better. the unit was nice, the glass jars are cute but a little too small more of a snack then a batch, but having the larger lid helps with making up to 4 large mason jars of yogurt in a batch.

pros
- glass jars
- extra tall lid for larger batches

cons
- temp way to high and most likely kills off the beneficial bacteria.
- glass jars way to small, snack size not useful for batch jobs,

Overall if the temp was not so high even peeking at 115f I would have given a much better rating, but to compare this item to a stove would like putting a steak in to get med rare and it comes out looking like charcoal.

I doubt the company will return, i will most likely take it apart and put a thermostat in it and make some tweaks as i like the container just not the temp.

Best Yogurt Maker
I love the Tribest yolife yogurt maker!! The fact that you can make three quarts at once was my reason for buying yolife.I make three quarts every four or five days.I like Greek yogurt,so after the yogurt has cooked for 12 or 13 hours and cooled for several hours in refrig.I drain mine in yogurt cheese strainer until a nice thick consistency.I like it for breakfast mixed with raw honey and fresh fruit.My favorite is banana and fresh pineapple with honey.
The taste of homemade yogurt is so much better than prepared ones in supermarket.I never dreamed I would be eating so much yogurt,it tastes good and is good for the digestative system.

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