Duronic Digital Yoghurt Maker YM1 Electric Yoghurt Making Machine with Large 1.5 Litre Ceramic Pot Make Fresh Homemade Bio-Active Yoghurt

The yoghurt maker doesn’t take up a lot of space and is so easy to use. You do your yoghurt mix put it in the maker and set the timer. Wait for the beep and you have perfect yoghurt. I hope there will be a spare ceramic bowl in the future. I bought the jars as a spare choice but they are on the small size. However, a spare bowl would be a great add on option. Great price, quality and arrived vey quickly. Would thoroughly recommend.

It’s a good yoghurt maker. First I THOUGHT I had issues with the green light not showing up but it takes a while and then it does. You can put the milk with cultures in at room temp m. and the yoghurt comes out fantastic! I wouldn’t want to live without it. I use YEO organic blue milk and use 2 ‘bio kult’ pre biotic capsules for one liter. Fantastic yoghurt. I have bought the small pots additional and am happy with both. Thank you Seller!

Plus: Nice design, simple to use, lightweight, ceramic bowlMinus: plastic lid (for the ceramic bowl), no way to select a temperature. It is set to 42 degrees, while I would have preferred 37/38 degrees.

My first attempts produced curdled, runny yoghurt and I found the little containers fiddly. On my third attempt a) I used a pyrex measuring jug with handle and pouring lip and heated the milk in the jug in the microwave b) I measured and made sure milk was heated above 85 degrees centigrade and c) I increased the time to 10 hours in the Duronic yoghurt maker (had tried 8 and 9 hours with poor results). Using the measuring jug meant I could cool the milk in the jug in an ice bowl and pour it into the containers very easily. The 'Bulgarian' strain yoghurt, with some time in the fridge, came out thick and creamy with a slight but delicious sourness. There was no separation and it looked perfect.

The media could not be loaded. It's a good yogurt maker. We've tried to use single cream, the yogurt turns out more drinkable. So we use double cream to make creamy consistency yogurt. And so far everything is fine. We set it before to go to bed and at the morning we have fresh homemade yogurt.

I don't normally write reviews, but other reviews including tips to compensate for the lack of recipes helped me, so here goes.I have now made two batches of lactose free yoghurt and both have been excellent. I have the version with 8 little pots.I'm in the UK. I used Waitrose lactose free yoghurt as a starter (which I can get, but they've stopped stocking it in my local store so it's a drive, hence buying a yoghurt maker) with Arla Lacto Free milk.900ml milk and 90ml starter is perfect for filling the 8 pots just below the lids level. (2nd batch was 900ml measured and one little pot from the 1st batch just as it was, not measured).1st batch I used semi-skimmed, 2nd batch full fat. neither were UHT so I heated the milk to around 84C for 5 minutes and cooled below 40C before adding the (room temperature) starter. I whisked the milk occasionally because I read that helps the yoghurt be thicker.I had read that longer times also create thicker and tarter yoghurt and so I had the yoghurt maker on for 13 hours (overnight). I turned it on when I started heating the milk, so by the time the pots went in they had about 12h.And, as if by magic... set yoghurt in the morning. Jury is still out, but I think the semi-skimmed is slightly winning. The yoghurt kept well in the fridge for a week (after which time it had all gone, so it may have kept longer).

Sadly I've had to alter my review. Whilst during its first use the temperature hit a high of 41C, which was usable, it's subsequently hitting 45C, rendering this machine useless for many cultures.

I bought this product because Amazon said the Severin yoghourt maker I wanted was no longer available. I was delighted to see it has a timer. Busy people cannot sit around for 8 hours so it would be really useful to have it switch off, especially during the night.(Doesn't everyone run washing machines, dishwahers, slow cookers etc at night?)The booklet says it give a beeo when finished. No problem. We could sleep through a beep.But it does not give one beep - it goes crazy - beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep .....very loudly........accompanied by flashing red lights.This would be intolerable at 4pm. At 4am it's hell.