Greek Yogurt Starter

this contains one package of a single teaspoon of dried starter. It recommends you make one cup of yogurt and then use that to make larger quantities. It also recommends using whole milk and cream. I'm not going to use cream or whole milk in any yogurt I make, so I used skim milk; needless say, nothing happened, it did not work. To save money, go to a grocery store and buy a container of natural yogurt with active cultures (not anything flavored, the cultures in flavored yogurt are not active). To make a thick, rich creamy yogurt add dry milk powder (I use one-half cup of Organic Valley dry milk from Amazon) per half gallon of skim milk. If you want a thicker yogurt, use a colander and coffee filters to further strain the yogurt. The result will be a much thicker yogert than anything you can buy. Just use part of the current batch of yogurt to make additional supplies; you cultures should last forever if you make a new batch every week or 10 days.

I understand that you can continue to make yogurt from the yogurt you make with this culture pack, but I still thought for the cost that this would include multiple packs of the starter. Instead it just contained 1 pack. That seems quite expensive.

This culture was not good I still have not tried the 2nd envelope though I just bought their liquid rennet, but have not tried it either. I do like this company a lot though

I had a bad experience with this product and do not recommend it for two reason: (1) it did not work for me at all, despite following the instructions and (2) the description does not tell you just how finicky and sensitive this product is.Here are the details:1. Despite being an experienced yoghurt maker and despite following the instructions to the letter (including following the inconvenient schedule, which at some point required me to check the yoghurt every half hour for hours and hours), my culture did not activate. After a day wasted babysitting this product, I ended up with warm milk – not the slightest acculturation. Nothing like the heavenly yoghurt I’d been promised.2. I’ve been making yoghurt for years, using super market cheap yoghurt as my culture. I always leave it overnight in my trusty Dash yoghurt maker and in the morning – presto -- perfect yoghurt. Apparently, this does not work with this culture, as it’s extremely sensitive to the most minor temperature changes. You either need to sit there watching the thermometer all the time or buy a high quality, expensive yoghurt maker. I do not want to run a lab – I just want to leave it overnight and get yoghurt in the morning. If this product is SO sensitive and requires special equipment or attention, the description should have stated this.Customer support did try quite hard to help me, but kept asking the same questions (to which I gave the same answers) again and again. Being told that my perfectly good yoghurt maker will have to be replaced (with a much more expensive one) and that I’d need to let it culture for EXACTLY six hours (even assuming the culture worked in the first place, which it did not), was too much for me.I think the description is misleading and (at least for me), even following the instructions exactly did not work.

Purchased directly from website. I had the same experiences described above. Using a preprogrammed yogurt maker, that I had used previously with success, using already made Fage Greek yogurt, and following all instructions, the result was a weak, watery yogurt. Texted asking for advise-already had another problem with another product I purchased and after about 24 hours Stephanie emailed back (no phone) and basically told me it was my fault and wanted me to answer a long check list of questions, to "advise me" why I had the problem.Since my method is controlled by the electronics I use and the only variation (the yogurt culture; it's storage; and mixture to milk using proper proportions-1 packet for one quart) was the addition of the starter, the problem had to be the starter.I will be testing this out by buying other cultures and see if I get the same results. If not, I assume the culture is flawed, my money was wasted and the owner wears you by questioning your procedures.I will report back, after I try other starters. Right now, I would not recommend buying from Cultures For Health