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Product description 837426 Features: -Create thick, creamy yogurt cheese.-Produces yogurt cheese in 2 to 24 hours.-Create low-fat calcium-rich dips, salad dressings, spreads and cheesecakes.-Can use as a low-fat substitute for cream cheese, sour cream, and mayonnaise.-Sealed container prevents odor transfer and provides storage. Amazon.com Consisting of a plastic container and a stainless-steel, fine-mesh strainer, this simple unit converts 3 cups of yogurt into 1 cup of thick, creamy yogurt cheese in about 24 hours of refrigeration. (Thickening continues for 24 hours, though a thinner yogurt cheese results in as little as 2 hours.) The yogurt cheese then becomes a healthful, calcium-rich, low-fat alternative to cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, and even whipping cream. It can be used as a spread, in salad dressings, to top baked potatoes, mixed with fruit, and to make cheesecake. The unit works by allowing the whey (liquid) in yogurt to drain away, leaving the curds behind. The container is dishwasher-safe and seals to prevent odor transfer while it's in the refrigerator. Simple instructions and recipes for using yogurt cheese are included. --Fred Brack
Converts 3 cups of yogurt into 1 cup of yogurt cheese in about 24 hours
Yogurt cheese is low-fat alternative to cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream
Unit consists of plastic container and stainless-steel fine-mesh strainer
Dishwasher-safe container seals to prevent odor transfer
Simple instructions and recipes for using yogurt cheese included
Been using this since 2008. Great product. I my milk to a slight boil. Cool it down to 100-110. Add a couple tablespoons of leftover yogurt and put it in my vintage west bend yogurt maker (1 quart). That still keeps a perfect temp for formenting. After 6-8+ hours the yogurt is thick. I dump it into this fab strainer, pour off excess whey and place in fridge for the next days cheese. I enjoy it with pure honey. This is a great strainer and you DO NOT need a starter. Just save leftover yogurt and remember to use above directions.The lid is very hard to get on and off but maybe will get better with use. Wish it held a little more.I ran across this Yogurt Cheesemaker on Amazon while doing some research for Greek yogurt and recipes for Tzatziki Sauce. I found a link to this item at one of the websites I was visiting. I was impressed by the mostly favorable reviews and decided since I am a big yogurt lover to give it a try.Two of the biggest complaints I read about this, is that it isn't large enough for a large sized container of yogurt and that it is hard to clean. I am not sure what the basis is for these complaints. I can easily put a large sized container of full yogurt into mine. True, it fills it to the top, another inch might be nice, but I just place the top on loosely and pop it in the fridge. By the next morning a lot of the whey is already drained and your once filled to the top cheese maker will now be well below the top. If you leave it draining in the fridge for several days you will be amazed at how little yogurt you have after draining off the whey. What you have left is a very thick yogurt base which can be used for so many delicious recipes. I like Tzatziki Sauce for dipping bread and vegetables into. The cheese maker comes with some recipe ideas, my favorite is the lemon cream. Very tasty and easy to make. I made a lime version which was good. Tried the bananna cheese cake, which was ok...tasted like healthy cheese cake, but being a real cheese cake lover, it was a poor substitute. Give me a real slice of cheese cake!As far as the hard to clean complaints...??? I don't know, I just scrape the yogurt out with a spatuala into a container or bowl if I am being creative right at the moment. Give it a rinse under hot water and set it aside to dry. It's no harder to clean than a cake mix bowl.I have been using store brand plain yogurt for my yogurt cheese which has worked fine.The price seems a bit high for what you get, basically a tupperware type container with a screened insert, but it seems well made. If it was cheaper I would buy several as they would be perfect for storing berries or cherry tomatoes in your fridge. Maybe add it to your ""wish list" and wait for it to go on sale or as an add on for a free shipping offer..I have enjoyed mine, I would recommend this item to anyone who loves yogurt and wants to create better sauces and dips with it.Yes, this is an expensive piece of kit. I'm not keen on spending money and, when this was recommended to me (I've got a Thermomix and it was on a Thermomix-owners' site when I was finding out how to make yoghurt), I was pretty appalled at the price. However I had just discovered that the 'Greek yoghurt' sold in supermarkets is not Greek yoghurt at all but thickened ordinary yoghurt, so I was doubly keen to start making my own yoghurt - and I bought the Cuisipro 'cheese maker' as recommended.What can I say? 'Wow' would just about sum it up. You make yoghurt, and then you put it into the Cuisipro Yogurt Cheese Maker and let the excess whey drain out, and you have Greek yoghurt. Leave it a little longer and you have a thicker version which, with added lemon juice, substitutes for crème fraîche. Leave it longer still and you have a substitute for cream cheese. The savings are so huge that I feel I should be giving Cuisipro some more money (and I can't believe I'm saying this...).I've now had a Cuisipro Cheese Maker for well over a year (first one bought April 2016) and it's been in constant use. I buy beautiful, non-homogenised, organic milk from Guernsey cows who all have names and are treated excellently well, and this (1 litre each time) is turned into yoghurt, Greek yoghurt, and substitutes for crème fraîche, cream cheese and creamy dips. Even with paying pretty much top price for a litre of milk, the savings are huge.So I'm back here on Amazon buying a second Cuisipro strainer because it's so much easier to leave it in the fridge doing its thing until I need to use the Greek yoghurt/crème fraîche/cream cheese/yoghurt cheese rather than decant and fill it with another batch, that this is why. And believe me, I don't spend around £25 lightly.Just an extra point: I don't understand why some reviewers say that the Cuisipro is difficult to clean. When I decant the Greek yoghurt/crème fraîche/cream cheese/yoghurt cheese I first of all run the Cuisipro strainer under the hot tap, brushing it lightly with a washing-up brush or sponge. If I'm doing washing-up immediately then it gets done with everything else (I don't have a dishwasher); if I'm going to do washing-up later, then I fill the bottom part with water and washing-up liquid and leave it to soak. That's it. I've never had any problems with anything being stuck in the strainer or whatever problem some people have found, nor has the thing discoloured in any way.Try adding chives, parsley, mint, finely-chopped onions (spring, red or shallot), black pepper, chillies (dried or finely-chopped fresh), or anything else which takes your fancy to strained yoghurt 'cream cheese' - yum!I can't recommend this Cuisipro Yogurt Cheese Maker highly enough - even at this price.This arrived promptly. It is smalller that I thought but takes 1ltr of yogurt no problem. when the yogurt is very thin a great deal of the yogurt goes through. This is what i do if i have the problem. I let it go through because I bake my own soda scones and this yogurt whey mixture makes beautiful scone bread. When I am not in the mood for bread making I let the yogurt go through for around an hour and then I pour the whey/yogurt combo back through again and presto great creamy yogurt and whey left for for Kvass making. I tried a paper/cheesecloth filter but I ended up with a loss of too much yogurt on the filter. For the cheese I just leave for longer the second time around. You could always use the first time but leave for longer. I use the cheese instead of butter on the bread or wee scones OR put some on a digestive biscuit topped with jam! instant mini cheese cakes, lovely on gingernuts or oat hob nob type biscuits. yum!1Great item: I make yoghurt weekly: any yoghurt left after 1 week gets made into cream cheese simply by leaving it in this container for a few hours: adding salt and optional herbs or ground pepper makes a lovely yoghurt based cream cheese that gets eaten within a couple of days: homemade yoghurt keeps up to a couple of weeks so this routine ensures it all gets used within the desired timeframe..Star rating reduced to 5 stars reflecting high cost of item plus fridge space required! It's so easy to use and so efficient that I'd give it 5 stars otherwise.I thought that fifteen quid (plus 3 quid postage) was quite expensive for a tupperware box containing a sieve, but there is little else on the market which does what this does so I bought it anyway. To be fair when the item arrived (faster than its stated delivery date by some measure) its seems to be very well made and appears quite robust. I can see it lasting for quite some time without teh need to replace it.I've only used it once so far but have already achieved excellent results, although there is really not all that much you can get wrong! I look forward to getting many years of service from it. I would certainly recommend this to anyone, particularly if they make their own yoghurt!Great little product. Still haven't made cheese yet. The Greek yogurt produced is excellent.Could do with being a tad bigger, I can't quite get my Lakeland yogurt maker results in in a single go.A lot less messy than cheesecloth & the like. Expensive for a sieve in a box, but it's a pretty unique item, so rarity value must apply.