Greek yogurt

[Chicklady]

All the greek yogurt for sale around here is nonfat, lowfat or 2%.
Is it possible to just buy regular full-fat yogurt and do the straining myself? How long would it take?

[ValidRouge]

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Ive never done it, but the instructions for making your own yogurt sound pretty easy. There are lots of videos people have done on YouTube on how to do it. You'd use whole milk and half and half and you'd have to buy some starter yogurt (like the low fat greek, just to get the bacteria)

From what I understand, the longer you let it ferment, the less sugar (lower carbs) it has. You can do a google for "24 hour yogurt"

[Chicklady]

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I've made yogurt no problem. It's making the greek/strained/lower carb/thicker version I was curious about(now you see why I don't create product names for a living )

[sadie147]

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I eat 2 or 3 % yogurt because anything higher is almost impossible to find here. the carb counts are pretty much the same as the 10% i've found on occaision in the past, the biggest difference is the fat amount. so if it's the carbs your worried about, have you compared them with the higher fat one?

If your talking about actually straining the whey off the yogurt, that is called 'yocheese' and I've made it and it's awesome. I'm not sure that the carb counts change et. I usually strain a container of yogurt in cheese cloth, set in a strainer, over a bowl in the fridge overnight. It comes out like soft cream cheese.

[Lyssie]

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If it makes you feel any better, my grocery carries to Chobani 2% greek yogurt and not the Fage Full fat... Like Sadie said, I really think that the carbs are about the same...

[SunnySmile501]

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I think the method of dumping the container in cheesecloth in a bowl and tying the cheese cloth to the wire shelf in the fridge, above the bowl, does the trick just fine. Whey does have the most lactose, so I think it would have less carbs.

Sunny!

[Chicklady]

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The carbs aren't really the big deal. The one container of Full fat Fage I ever found had 7 grams of carbs per 8 ounces. The 2% has 9 grams. I'm high up enough to handle that. But the full fat is thicker, and works better for sauces and spreads. From what i've read, greek yogurt is just yogurt with a lot of the whey removed. I wonder if I put it in cheesecloth if it would all seep through, or if just the whey would drain? Maybe Sadie's "yo-cheese" is actually greek yogurt?

[ValidRouge]

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I've had the full fat and the 2% Fage brand yogurt. There really is not any difference in thickness. So, if that's whats holding you back, go for it.

[SugarFreeSheila]

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Hi, Chicklady! Have you thought about special-ordering it with management? I do this all the time, and persistence works. Plus, their goal is to keep you happy and as a return customer, so it will serve management's interest to listen to you. Don't "make do" unless you have to!

[SunnySmile501]

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Can you believe that I looked for ANY brand plain full fat yogurt at Wal-Mart today and they only had 2 kinds of plain yogurt at all and both fat free! All the rest had fruit. They had a few containers of off-brand Greek yogurt, all with fruit all fat free.

[TheDogAteMyName]

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My local store doesn't sell Fage Total in a large container, only small containers. I buy only the Fage Total without any numbers. Did you look below in the Fage combination flavors for a smaller container of plain? Fage Total is 6 net carbs and the 2% is 9 net carbs when I compared today.

[Elizellen]

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Talking about large containers of yogurt - i have found that Lidl's greek yogurt (10%) comes in 1 kilo tubs which are about the same price as the 'large' 500-gram Fage total pots!

We get through a lot of yogurt as my DH loves a bowl of it with rhubarb as a dessert each day and this means I only have to buy a couple of tubs a week!

[Chicklady]

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So....I ended up buying a 32 ounce container of Stoneyfield organic yogurt and poured it into a cheescloth lined strainer and left it for 24 hours. I got 12 ounces of the thickest stuff I've ever seen in yogurt I think just a few hours would have made it Fage full-fat thick. This is almost as thick as cream cheese! Tastes great! Now I wonder what I should use for nutritional values......

[ValidRouge]

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Chicklady, Fage full fat is nowhere as thick as cream cheese.

Have you ever had Daisy brand sour cream? That's about the consistency of the Fage full fat greek yogurt.

[Chicklady]

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Hi, Chicklady! Have you thought about special-ordering it with management? I do this all the time, and persistence works. Plus, their goal is to keep you happy and as a return customer, so it will serve management's interest to listen to you. Don't "make do" unless you have to!

LOL. If my experience with these people hadn't been so poor in the past, I may have tried this Sheila! But, these are the same people who told me they don't carry ground lamb because "noone eats that"