The Best Greek Yogurt Makers
I first got into making Greek yogurt when a friend regifted an extra yogurt maker to me. My first greek yogurt maker was like the Euro-cuisine YM-100 For what it is, it’s a pretty awesome and inexpensive yogurt maker. For making greek yogurt, however, it was pretty mediocre. It is only an incubator, so to use it to make greek yogurt only added steps and made more dirty dishes. I had to scrape the yogurt out of the tiny cups to strain the yogurt. It made perfectly fine individual servings of yogurt, but the yogurt it made was thin and runny, which was the opposite of what I wanted. Finally, it didn’t make all that much yogurt. We go through quite a bit in our house, what with the mixing it with granola, or making sauces, or dips, or adding it to everything to make life more delicious and this maker just didn’t cut it.
Since my daughter started school, and I have gone back to work, I have found I don’t have enough time to keep up with the demands for greek yogurt in our house. The biggest problem now is that I am not always home when the yogurt needs to come out or it’s done straining (this isn’t a bad thing, see my article on greek yogurt cheese). So I found myself googling around for yogurt makers to fit the bill, and boy did I find one.
The cuisinart electric yogurt maker is fantastic. You still have to prep the milk and mix in the cultures before pouring it into the
machine, but the best part is that it cools the yogurt when the timer finishes and will keep chilling it for up to 12 hours. So if you like your greek yogurt a little milder flavored, you just set it for a shorter period of time, say 6 hours, and then this thing stops incubating and starts chilling it. What this means is that while you’re making your breakfast, you just scald the milk and pour it into the machine and when you come home from work you can just pour the chilled yogurt out and strain it. By bedtime, you’ll have some pretty awesome greek yogurt!
When I looked at it I wrote it off because I didn’t know where I would store it, but since getting it, I haven’t had to store it because I can now constantly make yogurt. As soon as one batch is done, I can strain it, wash the container and start again. It’s great! The reason I inevitably bought it was that it is a cuisinart product. Everything I have ever bought from the company has been excellent. Next on the list of yogurt related happiness is a cuisinart ice cream maker so I can start making frozen greek yogurt. More on that to come.
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Check out our famous 5 step guide to how to make greek yogurt at home as well as all of our delicious greek yogurt recipes.
How do you strain it? thanks
spaghetti strainer lined with cheese cloth or you can buy an actual Greek yogurt strainer. set it in the sink or over an empty bowl, dump yogurt in it and wait for the whey to drain.
Yes that is a perfectly good way to strain. You can also use a clean white T-shirt instead of cheese cloth as well. Lately I have been finding it easy and useful to use this greek yogurt strainer. You may want to give it a try as it is affordable and makes clean up super easy.
Hi – What recipe do you use in the Cuisinat to make greek yogurt? I’ve been trying to make it in mine with no success.
Thank you for the help!
Jenny
Hi Jenny,
We suggest you use the recipe listed on our site at Our recipe Give that one a try and let us know how it turns out.
we make yogurt every other day so pays for it self very quickly with 5 of us eating yogurt. Cleans up easy and it keeps it cool for 12 hours so no getting up in the middle of the night. Tried making it in crockpot but sometimes it would work and to much trouble with this you mix it in a bowl pour it in and push the button and then you have yogurt no checking temps and wrapping in towel .cuisinart electric yogurt maker is great and simple to use and makes great yogurt.
i recommended Yogourmet Electric Yogurt Maker I LOVE this yogurt maker. This appliance makes perfect yogurt every time and it is absolutely no work at all. The key is bringing your milk to a beginning boil, then cooling it to room temperature before adding your starter so that you don’t have any other bacteria in the milk but your starter. I like to leave my cultured milk sit in the yogurt maker overnight for a nice solid curd. I save on starter by starting my next batch with about 1/2 C. of previously-made yogurt. I do that over and over again until it no longer works. Your purchased powdered starter will last almost indefinitely in the refrigerator and you won’t need to purchase fresh starter for a long time using this method. I love the large size of this yogurt maker, as I prefer to make one large batch instead of small individual cups of yogurt since I make a yogurt smoothie with fresh fruit every day for one of my meals, so I go through it pretty quickly.
Euro-Cuisine YM100 is not a Greek yogurt maker. It’s a regular yogurt maker, so it’s really not fair to knock it for not making Greek yogurt. I happen to use this maker all the the time, and it makes great regular yogurt, that is not runny or watery. If you got watery results I suspect either you used the wrong or old cultures or had the wrong temperature when you added the cultures. Adding powdered milk will produce a thicker yogurt when using fat free milk, but whole milk doesn’t need it.
I like the design of Euro-cuisine YM-100 which has several separated containers. I also make yogurt every a week. I love eat it because I know it is rich in proteins and calcium. As a type-II diabetic, I just eat plain yogurt without any sugar added.
I am using Euro Cuisine YM80 Yogurt Maker Review and I love it as it is jar machine. I was using bulk one but once I have started with jars, I would never choose bulk again. Just for greek yogurt – for it that´s perfect. But I recommend jars to anyone thinking about buying machine. More flavours at once and easy to keep in fridge for longer time.
I am looking at buying the cuisinart. I have the ice cream maker and although I love it I wish it did not have an aluminum container that touches the ice cream. what is the container made out of that you put the yogurt in?
Thanks
are there any greek yogurt makers on the market where you dont do any prep or finish work, that the machine does every single step? i dont want to have to scald milk or strain it..i just want to pour in the milk and the starter, and have the machine do everything else…..
thanks
karen
Yes! The Cuisinart CYM-100 model does just that. Give it a try!
I have recently bought, what I believed to be a greek yogurt maker, only to realize once it arrived that it is a regular yogurt maker and would be too much of a hassle to send it back – it is a Euro Cuisine YM80 – is there any way I can still make greek yogurt – I don’t like regular yogurt. thank you 🙂
Don’t do dairy can coconut milk make the Greek or regular yogurt. Will be purchasing a yogurt maker.