Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, yogurt can stay out without being refrigerated?

For quite awhile. In ancient times that was the idea, making it into yogurt (basically a preferred culture instead of something yucky) keeps other bacteria at bay. It also keeps longer in the fridge than other foods with similar moisture--you wouldn't be able to hang on to a container of mashed potatoes for 3 months but a container of yogurt can do just fine.

My son gives me his expired yogurt because he's OCD. I tell him it's fine, it was already intentionally rotten and it's still the same kind of rotten.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, yogurt can stay out without being refrigerated?

Well, it' not being refrigerated when you make it. When I do I leave it going for up to a couple of days because I usually have 1% milk on hand so it thickens more slowly.

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Anonymous wrote:Bring grandma to the US.

This is the correct answer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, yogurt can stay out without being refrigerated?

For quite awhile. In ancient times that was the idea, making it into yogurt (basically a preferred culture instead of something yucky) keeps other bacteria at bay. It also keeps longer in the fridge than other foods with similar moisture--you wouldn't be able to hang on to a container of mashed potatoes for 3 months but a container of yogurt can do just fine.

My son gives me his expired yogurt because he's OCD. I tell him it's fine, it was already intentionally rotten and it's still the same kind of rotten.

I love this post! Years ago, one of my coworkers expressed absolute horror when I was about to toss a yogurt from the back of the work fridge that had been expired for 9 months. She told me when she worked in the Peace Corps, they routinely distributed yogurts that had expiration dates past a year. She dared me to eat it. It was absolutely fine, and tasted the same as fresh. I no longer worry about the dates.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a culture. You don't need much, like a couple of teaspoons. Put it in your checked in luggage. Grandma should probably just make it, so it doesn't sour too much over the travel time.

Won't the X-ray scanner kill the bacteria?

Are you joking? X-rays do not kill anything or you'd be dead every time you got an x-ray.

Ummmmm not sure if serious or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Can you put it in a travel toiletries bottle? No more than 3oz.

That’s what I do. No issues, though I haven’t tried it under the current regime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, yogurt can stay out without being refrigerated?

Of course. Not forever obviously but a day is fine.

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It doesn't have to be wet. You can soak a napkin in the yogurt and just use that as a starter when you get back. Immigrants used to bring their yogurt culture in to america that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Like sourdough, once you bring it to your home in the US and start feeding it US based milk, it's going to lose whatever bacteria/milk were in Greece and adapt to your kitchen/ingredients.

No, that's not true and it's not true of sourdough either. The sourdough culture and the yogurt culture are what make the bread and the yogurt. The milk is pasteurized -- you have to heat it on the stove before you add the yogurt culture.

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