Homemade Yogurt in the Oven

The best and easiest way to make yogurt without fuss and a bunch of fancy equipment. I DO NOT have a self cleaning oven. It works fine. I heat my cast iron griddle when I heat up the oven and use a crockpot for the milk. When the milk has cooled and yogurt is added, I put the crockpot with lid on, in the oven on my cast iron griddle. I wrap a towel around it, turn on the light, next morning, yogurt is ready. Like others said, if you want a thicker yogurt, strain it. I save the whey for cooking.

I strain the yogurt for about 2 days and this makes the perfect, thick and creamy Greek s Yogurt. Perfect batch each time.

I love this recipe! It is yummy and so easy. I do not have a self cleaning oven, but with some accommodations this recipe works wonderfully in my non self cleaning oven. When I heat and then call the milk on the stove top, I cover the pot and put the whole pot in the oven, instead of in jars. I also preheat the oven to the lowest setting available (200°F instead of 170°F) for half an hour. I appreciate the oven before are you start heating the milk, and that the temperature in the oven even out and cool down a little bit while the milk heats up.

This is an interesting method. I used plain, 5% fat, Greek yogurt. It was a bit runnier than when I make it in my instant pot or yogurt maker, but it is a fun experiment. Thank you for the recipe.

AWESOMENESS

First time for making homemade yogurt...success! I used whole milk and the cooler idea for incubation. The only thing I need to do is add a little more sweetening as I ran out of honey before putting in jars. It is thick and creamy and no sour taste. Last week my husband and I stayed at a B&B in Kentucky as a gift for our 50th weeding anniversary from our daughter. For breakfast they served Summer Parfait with summer berries, homemade honey vanilla yogurt and homemade granola. I was hooked. So good! So much better than store bought. Don't be afraid to make it. I put hot water in my cooler while my milk cooled then after putting my jars in and putting in the water I wrapped a beach towel around it and also put inside an insulated bag. Still warm when I took it out 8 hrs later.

For flavoring, I used concentrated frozen orange juice. Or to taste.