EasiYuck (Easiyo Yoghurt Maker)

Member Name: soph_gregory

Product:	Easiyo Yoghurt Maker
Date:	30/08/06 (1423 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fun to make

Disadvantages: Poor flavours

I recently bought an EasiYo yoghurt maker and a fistful of tasty sounding mixes and hot-footed it home to make my first batch.
I followed the instructions to the letter, and took a sneaky peak after 8 hours to see whether it was ready. The contents of the jar had barely changed during that time, so back it went until the following morning and I sloped off to bed feeling a bit underwhelmed.
Next morning the jar contained something that looked a little more like yoghurt, and after waiting for it to chill it also tasted like yoghurt but was a bit too runny for my liking.
My next effort was a low fat apricot, which I had to wait 24 hours for it to thicken at all, and even then it ran off the spoon and tasted like an apricot had been wafted around in the general vicinity, but not the fruity explosion I was hoping for.
In short, I have tried various mixes and have been unimpressed by them all, particularly the greek mix which smells like baby formula. They all take much longer to make than stated, are runny and taste a bit fake.
For anybody who is still keen to try this, i would suggest only filling the jar to 800ml, thus ensuring your yoghurt stays on your spoon.
Not wanting to totally abandon this piece of kit to the back of a cupboard, I've been doing a bit of research and there are plenty of people who are using their EasiYo to create yoghurt using fresh milk and a live culture. This seems much more appealing to me, and hopefully will ensure that the synthetic taste I've been getting will be no more. www.deliaonline.co.uk has some excellent discussions on how best to do this and tomorrow I'm off to buy a pot of live yoghurt. Incidentally, plenty more people are using a regular thermos to aid their yog making, thus rendering the EasiYo and its vile powders totally redundant!

Summary: Expensive, synthetic tasting powders which take too long to work