Okay, so I used this recipe http://www.ehow.com/how_4846338_yogurt-crock-pot.html to make yogurt in the crock pot yesterday. I may have messed it up by adding the honey BEFORE letting it sit all night. The finished product is the tiniest bit, well kinda stringy. Not a lot, just the drip that comes off the spoon when i transfer it to the small containers sorta ends in a stretchy drip. It smells amazing, but I don't want to taste it until it is cold. And until I know for sure it isn't ruined! Can you help?
Crock Pot Yogurt
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Wifezilla
Low-Carb Queen - RIP: 1963-2021
Home made yogurt is going to be naturally thinner and runnier than store bought. Commercial yogurt is full of fillers 
Adding the honey may be what is giving you that weird texture. Next time strain your finished yogurt to thicken it (or add pectin...or use cream instead of milk). THEN add the honey once it is done.
Now just because the texture is off does NOT mean this is ruined. Use it in smoothies.
Adding the honey may be what is giving you that weird texture. Next time strain your finished yogurt to thicken it (or add pectin...or use cream instead of milk). THEN add the honey once it is done.Now just because the texture is off does NOT mean this is ruined. Use it in smoothies.
freemotion
Food Guru
The honey likely got different bacteria to proliferate during incubation. If you used storebought pasteurized milk, it should not be stringy and that runny. I would be suspicious of it and toss it and start over....but then, I am suspicious of anything that might keep me in the bathroom for hours..... 
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Wifezilla
Low-Carb Queen - RIP: 1963-2021
We have cast iron stomachs around here. Free's constitution is a little more delicate. Knowing what exactly went in to my yogurt, I would eat it without fear. If you tend to have issues that might require more paperwork than you care to do in a day, toss it and try again
tamlynn
Lovin' The Homestead
No advice on whether to eat it or not, just piping up to say I bought myself a crock pot for the first time last week. Pot roast was a success, and the next thing I'm going to try is yogurt. I will be sure not to add flavorings until it is done.
Rebecka
Lovin' The Homestead
Too many years working in restaurants in my youth.. "When in doubt , throw it out"
rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
I would toss it. Same thing about the wrong bacteria multiplying from the sugar as Free said. BTW, did the titile origionally read "Crack Pot Yogurt"? because that is what I read the first time I saw it and wondered what kind of yogurt that was.
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It said Crick Pot. 
Well, I looked it up and I think the texture is okay. It smells perfect, is a little thinner than commercial, and the product just sort of moves, doesn't break or crack. So, I tasted it and it tasets like the starter yogurt, but a tiny bit sweeter. If I die, it's on me....
Well, I looked it up and I think the texture is okay. It smells perfect, is a little thinner than commercial, and the product just sort of moves, doesn't break or crack. So, I tasted it and it tasets like the starter yogurt, but a tiny bit sweeter. If I die, it's on me....
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