EuroCuisine Automatic Yogurt Maker With 7 6OZ. Jars - EuroCuisine YM100
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Manufacturer: EuroCuisineBrand: EuroCuisine
Model: ym100
Color: White
Product features:
- Model No.: YM100
- Capacity: 7 jars.
- Origin: China
- Width: 9.5-in.
- Height: 6-in.
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of EuroCuisine Automatic Yogurt Maker With 7 6OZ. Jars - EuroCuisine YM100
Customer Review: Great versatile automatic yogurt maker for only $40
Summary: 5 Stars
The EURO CUISINE YM 100 was the only yogurt maker with automatic shut off when I bought it a couple of years ago. All other machines, including the $50 Sonoma one, didn't stop automatically. This means that if you forget to unplug it the next day before you go to work, it will stay on burning electricity until you return and remember to turn it off!
How much electricity does the Euro Cuisine spend? Neither the box nor the small manual will give you this information! However, if you look under the machine itself, you will see that it only consumes 15 W which means that a whole batch of 7 homemade yogurts will cost you between 150 and 225 watts in power, that's less than a quarter kilowatt!
Since I had two SEB yogurt makers that I bought when I was living in Paris (the first one in 1973 for the birth of my elder son and the second one in 1983 after I left the previous one to my ex-wife) which already had an automatic shut off, I really don't understand why couldn't they do in 2009 in the US what French technicians did already almost forty years ago, but that's the way it is!
This YM100 has two advantages that my SEB yogurt makers didn't have back in 1973.
FIRST, not only it turns off automatically, but it also has a timer, which the French ones didn't have. This allows you to set the length between three and 15 hours! My SEB machines turned off after three or four hours and kept the heat for several more hours; then I had to press the button again when I wanted a thicker yogurt. This inconvenience no longer exists with the YM100.
I was worried when I made my first batch because I noticed that the timer knob went freely back and forth without any resistance. My trouble increased when I saw that at midnight, two hours after I turned it on, the knob was still pointing at 9 hours. But when I woke up the next day at 7 am, the red light was off. If I had just read the manual, I would have known this in the first place, because it clearly says that the knob does not move!
Since this first batch was too liquid, I added three extra hours, pressed the red button again, the light went on and the machine turned off by itself after 3 more hours. It did the same thing the following times, so the timer is working perfectly well.
SECONDLY, while my SEB machines had a square central column that only allowed me to put the 8 (smaller than these) glass jars from the brand around it, this EURO CUISINE YM100 has no central column, which means that you can also put any big container fitting in it and make a larger quantity of yogurt.
This is an interesting plus that allowed me to make a big batch of plain yogurt and prepare a "Chicken Korma" on Sunday, after marinating the meat overnight in yogurt with a mixture of curry, ginger and coriander powders. This is an Indian dish that I learned to cook in Paris, where Indian restaurants flourished once that British subjects were allowed to migrate throughout the EEC.
I made my first batch the way I made it every week between 1973 and 2003, when I moved to Miami Beach and had to abandon my second SEB in France, after 20 years of faithful service because of the difference in voltage (you may run a 120 Volts/500 Watts machine in Europe with a tiny transformer that fits in your hand, reducing 220 volts to 120 but you need a huge transformer to do the opposite!): I put an 8 oz. plain whole milk yogurt with "no artificial anything" (very, very hard to find nowadays and for which I paid $1.50!) in a pan with six jars of whole milk. After whipping everything for a few minutes, I filled the seven jars with the mixture, set the timer for 9 hours, pressed the red button which turned on a red light and the next day the batch was ready. One of the plain yogurts will make the second and third batches but I use a new yogurt every four batches.
I read that some people boil the milk. I don't boil it but I do let it reach room temperature as well as the whole yogurt before mixing them.
Now, after a couple of years of constant use once a week (except during my four months vacations without pay at FIU because I'm often somewhere else), it is still working fine. I already broke one jar but I refuse to pay an outrageous $24 for a new set, so I use a simple glass instead.
I usually make plain and coffee yogurts but sometimes I am tempted by strawberry flavor, although not too often because I don't like all the chemicals that they put in their preserves. I tried a couple of times with real strawberries but the result is not very good, so I use jam, as I did in France.
For the past couple of years, I have been using this machine with the timer set for 12 hours and my yogurts are what they call "goût bulgare" in France: half way between liquid milk and those plastic yogurts you buy in stores, where you may plant your spoon in the center without falling to the side... Apparently, some people put powder milk to thicken it but the soft "bulgare taste" suits me fine.
In short, if you like yogurt, this machine will allow you to make your own product, knowing what you put in it, at a very low cost of 15 watts an hour during 10 to 15 hours, according to your taste.
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