This little contraption was our best purchase on our recent visit to London. Its a yoghurt maker - which is very handy in a place like Ghana. Since we've been here we haven't had any good yoghurt - there is a limited range to buy in Accra (four hours away), but its either dodgy local made yoghurt, or has been imported from France or England - who knows how long ago. Usually by the time we get it home, it has curdled and gone off! So we've been missing good yoghurt for breakfast.
I remembered that my mum used to have a yoghurt maker many years ago, and then when we were in London we spotted one just like it! Yay! So we bought it home with us, and its been a revelation! You buy sachets with milk powder with the active cultures, mix them with plain water in the small container, put it in the thermos with boiled water and then eight hours later you have fresh yoghurt! The good part is that we don't even need milk to make it, because the milk supply can be a bit variable too (fresh milk occasionally, or UHT).
It tastes good too - as good as any you would get in Australia. And you can get different flavours -natural, Greek, honey, vanilla or all sorts of fruit flavours. And I believe if you run out of the sachets you can keep a little bit of yoghurt from your previous batch, mix it with milk and it will make a new batch. Our intestines are very grateful! (I'm sure you didn't want to know that!!!!!)
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