As part of his Biology class, Cruz recently had to make homemade yogurt. It seemed a little intimidating at first but actually turned out great. In addition to making homemade pasta, yogurt making has also become a new hobby of mine. I now make it at least once a week and sometimes more than once depending on how fast we eat it. It is not quite as easy as pasta but once you get the kinks worked out, it's a smooth process.
Here are some photos of his yogurt experiment. He takes Biology as a live online class through Apologia so this was an experiment he was required to do, and he had to submit photos of each step.
The only ingredients are milk and a live yogurt culture. Here he is heating his milk.
You have to heat it to a certain degree and then cool it to a certain degree before adding the live culture. It is a delicate process.
adding the live culture
mixing it together
pouring it into jars
Next, we put it in the oven to sit for several hours with the light on.
Our finished yogurt ready to be cooled in the refrigerator.
Our first taste of it was sweetened with honey and some added blueberries.
I have since tweaked the process of how I make it. I still boil the milk on the stove, but I put it in my Instant Pot to sit instead of the oven. That seems much easier to me. We have tried many different ways to eat it. We love it with fruit and granola and also in smoothies.
a recent breakfast
We even made overnight oats with it that included chia seeds and fruit.
It's fun to think that a science experiment inspired a new hobby. That's a part of homeschool that I really love!
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