My whole life, I grew up watching my mom make homemade [dairy] yogurt. It's an incredibly easy process that I could probably do in my sleep even though I have never actually done it.
The basic method is this:
1. Boil/heat a bunch of milk on the stove, higher the fat content the better
2. Once the milk has been boiled, cool it down on the stove for a tiny bit (so it's still hot but not scalding, as if you were gonna drink it as a hot beverage)
3. Take several spoonfuls of already made yogurt (the starter), mix it in the hot milk, and cover the pot with several layers of thick towels. Leave it overnight on the counter.
4. Yogurt has been made.
Now, I'm looking up vegan yogurt recipes for fun. I never made my own soy yogurt because I'm lazy but I want to now. But looking at all these online tips and recipes for soy yogurt is confusing me!
http://www.bryannaclarkgrogan.com/page/page/1999382.htm
This is the confusing thing ever. Why does soy yogurt have to be that confusing? Why can't you just use the same dairy yogurt formula but replace the dairy milk with soy milk and the starter with soy yogurt and maybe a few sprinkles of probiotic powder from a vegan probiotic supplement?
Why wouldn't my mother's tried-and-true Arab yogurt recipe work for soy milk? Is there anything remarkably different? All the vegan websites say soy milk can be replaced for milk exactly. So why not yogurt?
Sorry, kinda venting/confused/flu-ridden.
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