Who used a Salton Yogurt Maker back in the 70s?

I had a live-in maid in the 70s that was on a health food kick that had one of those things...it was going every day until it finally gave out. A couple days later I was at home and got a call from her...she wanted me to go to her room and turn her electric blanket off, because she was making yogurt in it since it was such low heat. Kinda put me off yogurt for a while.

OP, they're probably all dead from cancer using that thing.

Not me, my Mom and not in the 70s, but in the 80s. We had a goat and a ton of milk, so she tried over and over to successfully make yogurt.

It never worked.

Homemade snot in a cup!

I use something different.

There was one of those on top of the refrigerator for a while. I don't know if my mom ever used it.

I didn't eat yogurt until I became a teenager, and then it was Yoplait.

Blue color white trash folk: "what the fuck is that shit? Where is the real food at? Is it rotten mayonnaise?"

I got one for Christmas in the mid-70s and used it well into the 90s.

At the beginning of Covid, I tried making my own yogurt (whole milk). I could not get the custardy texture I wanted. It really was a snotty texture, although the flavor was good. So, went back to store-bought.

Supposedly, you can add milk powder to your homemade yogurt mix (before the heating time) to get that custardy texture, but I was tired of experimenting by that point.

Picked up one NIB from a thrift shop years ago. Read up on some tips via various online sources, and gave it a go. Results were good, but more like "natural" yoghurt one found in Europe than what is sold in USA.

Using whole and or adding dry milk ups protein content which makes for a thicker yoghurt. Also for anyone who has bothered to read label of store bought yogurt adding bit of gelatin, carrageenan (seaweed), cream (milk fat) are some ways to make the stuff thicker.

Growing up and for long time afterward only yoghurt to be had easily was Dannon "fruit on bottom" cups. If you wanted something more you usually had to seek out some hippy-dippy "natural foods" type store. Today with so many really great natural yoghurts in stores, and more places selling (such as TJ's and Whole Foods), haven't used that Salton thing in years.

Yoghurt makers are still out there, and many do still make their own at home.

R1's comment about electric blanket is spot on. Many either because didn't have a dedicated machine, and or wanted to make yoghurt in larger quantities than most makers would allow, found other methods.

My mom.

I had one. Tried using it four or five times. Result was always gross as hell.

I had a similar model in the 1980s. I thought having fresh natural yogurt who be a health benefit until I started getting gastrointestinal problems. Thanks to the yogurt maker (and eventually my doctor) I found out I was dairy intolerant.