double whammy
Feb. 5th, 2019 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7ack ugh oh my god.
so i made yogurt in the instant pot. seems reasonable, right? i got half a gallon of milk last time we went grocery shopping, but the old one wasn't gone, and it took forever to get through and now suddenly i've got all this milk that's going to go off if i don't use it, and i'm almost out of yogurt but have a little left, so-- perfect!
well, we'd made a tex-mex venison stew thing in the instant pot for dinner, but i washed out the inner pot, really well i thought, I mean, it's stainless steel right? you can tell when stainless steel is clean. So I scrubbed it, lots of hot soapy water etc., after the normal fashion, and let it dry for a few moments and then popped it back into the electronic bit, and followed the directions to boil the milk and then set it up to ferment.
it ran overnight, perfect, only i got the timing slightly wrong so it screamed a bunch of beeps at me at five thirty in the morning. oh well, it's fine, i fell back asleep.
when I got up an hour later, I poured it into a container and stuck it in the fridge, but it didn't quite all fit so I put some of it into little jars to be pre-packaged breakfast-sized servings, with some frozen strawberries and some oatmeal and all.
Got it to work yesterday, and it was perfectly decent yogurt, a bit tangier than storebought, sure. But what was most notable is that it tasted, faintly but notably, even over the flavor of the defrosted strawberries, of poblano peppers, which had been an ingredient in the previous stew.
Great!
So today I added more things to this second jar, some peanut butter and some flaxseed, to try to drown out the poblano pepper flavor.
Only, it turns out. Well. The jar in question was a little mason jar, a jelly-jar-sized one. And the last thing it had been used for-- or at least, the last thing the lid had been used for-- was to hold Dude's extremely hot Asian pepper sauce (it's Vietnamese and has no English on the container really, and it's so spicy he'd decanted it from its original container into a Mason jar to add additional oil to hopefully bring it down a notch, which didn't work but at least it's easier to add in tiny tiny droplets to foods because now it's more dilute and less chunky; anyway the jar was too leaky as a container so he decanted it back into the original container, and put the jar in the sink to wash).
So now my vaguely-poblano-flavored strawberry peanut butter yogurt is AGGRESSIVELY SPICY.
I am having a really interesting morning, ok.
so i made yogurt in the instant pot. seems reasonable, right? i got half a gallon of milk last time we went grocery shopping, but the old one wasn't gone, and it took forever to get through and now suddenly i've got all this milk that's going to go off if i don't use it, and i'm almost out of yogurt but have a little left, so-- perfect!
well, we'd made a tex-mex venison stew thing in the instant pot for dinner, but i washed out the inner pot, really well i thought, I mean, it's stainless steel right? you can tell when stainless steel is clean. So I scrubbed it, lots of hot soapy water etc., after the normal fashion, and let it dry for a few moments and then popped it back into the electronic bit, and followed the directions to boil the milk and then set it up to ferment.
it ran overnight, perfect, only i got the timing slightly wrong so it screamed a bunch of beeps at me at five thirty in the morning. oh well, it's fine, i fell back asleep.
when I got up an hour later, I poured it into a container and stuck it in the fridge, but it didn't quite all fit so I put some of it into little jars to be pre-packaged breakfast-sized servings, with some frozen strawberries and some oatmeal and all.
Got it to work yesterday, and it was perfectly decent yogurt, a bit tangier than storebought, sure. But what was most notable is that it tasted, faintly but notably, even over the flavor of the defrosted strawberries, of poblano peppers, which had been an ingredient in the previous stew.
Great!
So today I added more things to this second jar, some peanut butter and some flaxseed, to try to drown out the poblano pepper flavor.
Only, it turns out. Well. The jar in question was a little mason jar, a jelly-jar-sized one. And the last thing it had been used for-- or at least, the last thing the lid had been used for-- was to hold Dude's extremely hot Asian pepper sauce (it's Vietnamese and has no English on the container really, and it's so spicy he'd decanted it from its original container into a Mason jar to add additional oil to hopefully bring it down a notch, which didn't work but at least it's easier to add in tiny tiny droplets to foods because now it's more dilute and less chunky; anyway the jar was too leaky as a container so he decanted it back into the original container, and put the jar in the sink to wash).
So now my vaguely-poblano-flavored strawberry peanut butter yogurt is AGGRESSIVELY SPICY.
I am having a really interesting morning, ok.
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Date: 2019-02-05 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-05 03:40 pm (UTC)I've found that my instant pot smells like beans all the time from me making them like twice right when I started using it. I can't clean the pot or the lid well enough to make it not smell like beans. It doesn't make anything taste like beans that I can tell but yogurt might be an issue because it isn't super flavorful.
It might have something to do with the rubber ring absorbing it. idek. I'd forgotten about that.
I'm sure someone somewhere has made spicy yogurt but probably not quite like that.
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Date: 2019-02-05 04:03 pm (UTC)I wonder if i could like... boil the milk in a pot and then put it into the instant pot with like a crock pot liner or something, i know they make them. i'll have to look into it.
(my regular pots don't hold flavor like this, wtf.)
I texted Dude about it and we ended up having a long text message conversation coming up with how i should flavor my yogurt jars, going forward.
D: i think you just have to work with it. instead of fruit and granola, try pepperoni and onions.
me: it's gonna be savory yogurs from here on out
me: beef and parsley
me: garlic and chevre
d: dill & feta
me: do you need to flavor yogurt with cheese though? now i'm reconsidering
me: just stir some cheez powder in there and be done
d: there can always be more cheese
and then I responded with "TRUE" because that was what my Google phone was recommending, as it loves to recommend things for me to text to people. (my mom texted a photo of a dead squirrel and my phone suggested "Have fun!")
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Date: 2019-02-05 04:59 pm (UTC)I don't understand how it holds smells, I really don't. Maybe it's the vents or the rubber or just the pot! I've never done sweet things so I have no idea if that would do it too.
lmao more cheese is best cheese and I would say yes add cheese to yogurt next time. report back how weird. although it would depend a lot on the type of cheese
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Date: 2019-02-05 05:54 pm (UTC)also i'm gonna make chip dip out of yogurt because idk what else to do with it
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Date: 2019-02-05 07:13 pm (UTC)I dont' know how that works. I just eat all my yogurt. all of it.
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Date: 2019-02-05 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-05 08:00 pm (UTC)It's kind of funny, though-- well, I think it was an Oscar isaac interview where he was talking about one time he was in the middle of a messy romantic breakup and he was barefoot in the rain crying and suddenly, right in the middle of it, realized in horror that he was studying himself to use in crafting a theoretical future role, and I think of that often, as I mine my life and the lives of everyone I know for material I can use...
At least in this case, it's just yogurt.
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Date: 2019-02-21 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-02-05 11:34 pm (UTC)In my non-vegan days, I must admit that vaguely-poblano-flavored strawberry peanut butter yogurt would have been appealing, but I am weird and gross in my food preferences.
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Date: 2019-02-06 12:23 am (UTC)I have weird and terrible taste, and if I lived alone I would probably eat reprehensible shit like this all the time, but I live with a dude who is more particular than that I guess, so my tastebuds are de-acclimatized lately.
I finished every bite of it, so. Either it wasn't that bad once I got over the initial shock, or I got Stockholm Syndrome and deluded myself. There's very little I won't eat once I set my mind to it...
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Date: 2019-02-06 02:42 am (UTC)In the "'may your life be interesting' is a curse" sense of the word. :D
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Date: 2019-02-06 08:46 pm (UTC)...Given the choice, I think I'd prefer poblano taste to capsicum burn...
I'm not quite clear on whether all of the yogurt got +strawberry +peanut butter flavors—if not, and you still have some yogurt that is only vaguely poblano-flavored, it strikes me that that would probably work really well for Raita!