Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 22:10     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 20:29     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 19:57     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Anonymous wrote:Bring grandma to the US.


This is the correct answer.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 19:39     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 19:38     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:06     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Wait, yogurt can stay out without being refrigerated?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2025 18:06     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Won’t it go bad if it’s not cold?
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 20:23     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
You can dehydrate sourdough starter as well, same method.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 20:22     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 19:23     Subject: Re:Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Anonymous wrote:I believe you can also dry it. Just like yeast--my grandma bought yeast cakes but we use dry yeast all the time.

I'd read that in something about ancient peoples but looked it up and here's how:
Spread the yogurt, homemade or purchased, as thinly as possible (about 1/8''?) on parchment paper or the sheets that come with your dehydrator
Dehydrate at 125F for about 6 hours.


Me again. The advantage here is if you can get hold of enough and have some time, you could have a decent stash of the dried version.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 19:22     Subject: Re:Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
I believe you can also dry it. Just like yeast--my grandma bought yeast cakes but we use dry yeast all the time.

I'd read that in something about ancient peoples but looked it up and here's how:
Spread the yogurt, homemade or purchased, as thinly as possible (about 1/8''?) on parchment paper or the sheets that come with your dehydrator
Dehydrate at 125F for about 6 hours.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 19:06     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Bring grandma to the US.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 18:17     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Anonymous wrote:It's no big deal. Just put it in a 3 oz lotion bottle. If they ask (they won't) just say it's a face mask (which it can be). But I'm sorry it won't be the same yogurt. The milk will be different as well as the wild microbes aren't the same. But good luck and have fun experimenting!


I make it with raw organic milk.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 18:16     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
Smuggle it in your kid’s milk bottle. That is how we have had the best yogurt culture since many years. Also, since we set curd almost every day, all my friends and family also make curd from the same culture.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 18:01     Subject: Has anyone ever travelled internationally with a yogurt culture
It's no big deal. Just put it in a 3 oz lotion bottle. If they ask (they won't) just say it's a face mask (which it can be). But I'm sorry it won't be the same yogurt. The milk will be different as well as the wild microbes aren't the same. But good luck and have fun experimenting!