Home Made Vegan Yogurt Experiments

Lately, I've been experimenting making vegan yogurt. A couple things I've realized over the course of 7 failed attempts.

- Do not use soy/rice milk with fortification. The ingredients should be only soy/rice & water. The fortification stops the growth of the probiotics.

- Bacteria has a unique growth rate. This means that if you don't have enough bacteria to grow in the soy milk (as your starter). It was never become viscus enough to be considered yogurt. Here is a picture of what i'm talking about. http://www-bioc.rice.edu/bios576/nih_bioreactor/NDL_Bioreactor%20Page_files/bacterial%20growth%20curve.jpg

Bacteria will only grow so much then it stops. So you need to make sure you add enough "starter" bacteria.

- If your using the Excalibur dehydrator do 2 cups max per bowl. You NEED a cover. Otherwise the soy milk will evaporate.

This is what I've learned so far on the subject. I will post a full recipe on how to make vegan yogurt in a future post.