Cultures For HealthSkyr Icelandic Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Heirloom Mesophilic Active Cultures for Yogurt Making | DIY Probiotic Yogurt for Stronger Gut Health | No Yogurt Maker Required

Contents of package:-Instruction booklet-2 pouches of dry starter (One pouch made enough starter for two half gallon batches of Skyr, or enough to make one batch and make more starter)-2 rennet tablets (Each half gallon batch uses 1/4 of a tablet)Pros:-Quality output, once directions were figured out following them resulted in very good results. I'm not personally familiar with what Skyr 'should' taste like mind you, but I got a wonderful creamy yogurt with a bit of tang that my grandmother compared to cream cheese.Cons:-I found the directions to be slightly unclear at first. The directions are broken into two sections but not labeled in a way to clearly lay that out. The first set is to rehydrate and 'wake up' your starter, and the second set is to prep the half gallon of milk to make the actual batch of yogurt.-I love that the rennet tablets are marked and ready to be quartered, but I found that due to the nature of the tablet it's hard to ensure you break it quite right and I ended up with some fragmented extra bits I then had to store for my next batch. The tablets did the job great though that's just a minor critique.Curiosity:I notice many recipe online for Skyr call for heating the milk up to 190F before letting it cool back down slowly to 90-100F. This supposedly helps arrange some milk proteins into a more yogurt friendly configuration but the instructions included skip this step. That said following the instructions included resulted in a delicious yogurt but I intend to try the extra step later to see how it impacts the result.

I purchased this kit and unfortunately was not able to make the yogurt turn out. Both batches curdled and despite following the directions I was unable to make it work.

Being very fortunate to get a weekly supply of fresh, grass-fed milk from a nearby farmer and using starter cultures from this company, I had been making ‘the best of the best’ yogurt and kefir for many years.Last year my local health food retailer began to sell Icelandic Skyr, which I really loved but as it only came in an individual serving size, it is cost prohibitive to enjoy very often.Several years ago, I purchased the 'Heirloom variety pack' which contains three different Mesophilic (countertop culturing) yogurt cultures from this company and had great success with them. Skyr wasn’t well known in the US at the time, and they did not offer it. But hoping this had changed, a few weeks ago I decided to see if they now make a Skyr culture and was thrilled to find that they do!Skyr is mild tasting and a bit runny in consistency but depending on how much whey you drain from it, it can become not only a great ‘Greek style’ yogurt, but delicious sour cream (with no cream required) and ultimately a fabulous cream cheese!I cannot recommend this company highly enough and that is most surely true of their relatively 'new kid on the block' – Islandic Skyr!

I was able to make my first batch of Skyr. The directions did confuse me a bit and I think they would do well to improve that. Otherwise the culture is alive and the yogurt tastes great and is super thick, I actually over drained it so next time I won’t make that mistake. Just for reference- you need to activate the culture the first day and you can make the yogurt the next day using the entire cup of activated cultures.

Good alternative to animal Reddit for making Icelandic yogurt.

Not sure about this yogurt culture - made very runny yogurt - and I’ve been making it for years. Better to just get some fresh already cultured and made stuff from the store

My first time making yoghurt. I used Lactic free milk...Lactaid. I used my crock pot..turned it on and waited for it to cool down. I put the yoghurt mixture in an amber glass jar. I checked the temp...and when the crock pot read 77 I put the mix in and put a towel over it.I left the crock pit off and 12 hours later it was almost done. I turned the crock pot back on for about 20 minutes... and added warm water. Waited another 3 hours.. then refrigerated it. I strained it... and it's perfect. And tastes just the way I like. It's a great product. And really not that difficult. I'll save have and begin another batch. Enjoy!

I tried this product twice. Neither one made yogurt.