--- product_id: 19872330 title: "Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt" brand: "cultures for health" price: "VT79" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/19872330-cultures-for-health-bulgarian-yogurt-starter-culture-2-packets-dehydrated store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Non-GMO 2 Packets Probiotic Power Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt **Brand:** cultures for health **Price:** VT79 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🥄 Unleash Your Inner Yogurt Artisan! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt by cultures for health - **How much does it cost?** VT79 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/19872330-cultures-for-health-bulgarian-yogurt-starter-culture-2-packets-dehydrated) ## Best For - cultures for health enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted cultures for health brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Endless Culturing:** Reuse indefinitely with just 2 tbsp! - • **Quality Assurance:** Pathogen tested for your peace of mind. - • **Historical Heritage:** The original yogurt, celebrated for millennia. - • **Culinary Versatility:** Perfect for smoothies, dressings, and more! - • **Nutrient-Rich Goodness:** Packed with calcium, riboflavin, and B12. ## Overview The Cultures For Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture offers a unique heirloom style that allows for endless yogurt creation. With health benefits including probiotics and essential nutrients, this versatile starter is perfect for a variety of recipes, all while ensuring safety through third-party testing. ## Description Full description not available ## Features - HEIRLOOM STYLE: With proper care, our heirloom Bulgarian yogurt starter can be reused indefinitely to continuously culture more yogurt for as long as you want—all you need is 2 tbsp of previous batch! - HEALTH BENEFITS: Yogurt contains plenty of probiotics for digestive health. Plus, unlike other yogurts such as Greek yogurt, Bulgarian yogurt isn't strained, so it offers extra nutrients like calcium, riboflavin, vitamin B12, and much more. - WHERE IT ALL STARTED: The original yogurt, the first known in existence, Bulgarian yogurt dates back several millennia, and is also acclaimed as the healthiest yogurt in the world. - VERSATILE: This mildly tart, creamy yogurt can be eaten plain, but is also delicious eaten with berries and granola, making smoothies, or added to a variety of recipes such as salad dressing, musaka, tarator, sourdough, or whatever you like. - SAFE: Each batch is pathogen tested by a trusted third-party laboratory so you know you are getting a high quality, healthy starter to make delicious yogurt at home. ## Images ![Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51FEaOo2JqL.jpg) ![Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61UHHGeRIYL.jpg) ![Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kWCpEDQ4L.jpg) ![Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71iDlpDkSKL.jpg) ![Cultures for Health Bulgarian Yogurt Starter Culture | 2 Packets Dehydrated Heirloom Culture | Make Delicious, Creamy Smoothies, Salad Dressing, Musaka, & More | Gluten Free, Non-GMO Probiotic Yogurt - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Yheg2G8jL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Do I need a yogurt maker for this starter?** A: While this is a thermophilic starter, meaning it cultures at 105–112°F, this can be accomplished using other appliances, such as a food dehydrator, folding proofer, crockpot, thermos, pilot light or oven light, or insulated cooler with heating pad. **Q: What kind of milk should I use?** A: Any pasteurized dairy milk can be cultured into yogurt; avoid ultra-pasteurized or UHT. Raw milk can also be used, but make sure to follow special instructions in this case. You can also use non-dairy milk, but will likely need to add thickeners. **Q: How much yogurt can I make with this starter?** A: Technically, infinite! All you need is 2 tbsp of your previous batch per quart of milk (up to a gallon at a time), and you can continue the culturing cycle for as long as you please. **Q: How do I know when my yogurt is set?** A: You can tell that your yogurt has set once it appears less uniform and looks more like one solid mass. The yogurt should be relatively smooth, and pull away from the side of the container. **Q: How long will finished yogurt last?** A: When kept in a refrigerator (at 40–45°F), finished yogurt maintains re-culturing viability for up to 7 days and remains edible for 2 weeks. Whey will last about 6 months in the refrigerator, but if it looks or smells bad at any point, discard it. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Be patient while it thickens! *by A***R on April 18, 2024* Short answer - I like this yogurt a lot, but you must be patient or you will think it doesn't work. Mine took 13 1/2 hours to ferment and thicken.It is mildly tart, not complex, and produced a thick yogurt. It may be a good choice as a base for people who don't like complex and super-tart yogurts.Long Answer - I tested this and yogourmet side by side. Got a half gallon of regular 2% milk, put it in the crockpot on low for two hours while it simmered, then poured it into 2 quart mason jars, lightly covered, and let it rest on the counter until the thermometer read around 105F. In the meantime, I put the oven on warm and half-filled a pampered chef rockcrock with water, covered, and put it into the oven to warm. Warm gets to around 200F.When the milk was cool, I turned off the oven. Then I put a yogourmet packet in one quart and one of these packets in another. Loosely covered the mason jars and put them into the warm water in the oven. Laid a doubleup bath towel over it to insulate, and left it alone for 5 1/2 hours.When I checked, the yogourmet was thick and tart. Not my prefered flavor of tart, either. I put it in the fridge. I ate it for breakfast the next morning but had to add fruit and sweetener.But the one with this packet was completely soupy - exactly like milk. I thought I must have killed it from the heat. I put it back in the oven with the towel over it and left it alone for another 8 hours (overnight).And it was PERFECT. Smooth and thick, not lumpy. It was mildly tart, with enough sweetness that I could eat it without fruit or honey. If I have a criticism it is that the flavor was not complex enough, but that is fine. I capped it and put it in the fridge.The other comments suggest that over time this gets even better at thickening so I'm looking forward to making future cultures from this initial start. ### ⭐ My experience so far *by J***D on July 21, 2021* I have ordered this item three times and of the three times only my first item (ordered on March 3, 2021) was great my siblings and I loved the taste but sadly we lost it due to parents being unhygienic or something else happened to it, so I made a second order when it was June 7, 2021 and this one came in expired my white/yellowish is powder was red/orange in color went to ask via email and I never got a reply back felt betrayed, but we really did love this taste, so I went for round three July 12, 2021 and when it came the siblings and I were excited the color and expiration date was fine . When it was done fermenting and cooling it was beautifully creamy and thick from appearance, but when I went to smell it the scent was different, but I thought maybe it would still be fine and to my surprise it was a bit sweet not a little tangy and tart like it was supposed to be when it plain.This was my experience so far I hope I can get the same thing I got back in March eventually, and I'm not even mad at the gallons of milk I lost making yogurt, just disappointed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Be patient. Yogurt is better than store-bought with a nice tang, but not sour. *by J***V on March 22, 2025* I’ve been making yogurt for a few months and grew tired of needing a new store-bought tub every few generations. Found a Sandor Katz video online where he talks of endless generations via heirloom cultures. After 5 quality generations (more than any store-bought tub produced), I’m convinced this is the better way. As Sandor explains, it’s not just a handful of lab-isolated bacteria strains in this yogurt, it’s a whole complex community of bacteria that gives it a deeper flavor. To my surprise this yogurt also cultures much faster than store starters. This yogurt is ready after a 5 hour culture, whereas store-bought greek yogurt was taking 10 hours to get to where i liked it.This Bulgarian yogurt culture has a deeper, more interesting taste than store-bought tubs. It has a nice tang, but without the sour taste that is a turnoff to me and likely other vinegar-haters out there. Culturing has worked with every method I’ve tried so far: instant pot directly in the stainless tub, mason jars in the instant pot, and mason jars 75% submerged in water with a sous vide circulator. My go-forward is the mason jars as that enables me to produce the volume of yogurt my family consumes, while keeping the container size small enough to maximize quality. I use a standard <$3 gallon of whole milk from my local supermarket and do the initial heat to 180℉ in a pot on the stove. I found that a pot is faster than instant pot, and because I stir it periodically, it warms and cools without forming a skin on top of the milk.Activation batch tips: 1) Follow directions to the letter. Printed instructions are packaged with the starter, and a video is available on the sellers website. Subsequent batches are easy, but activation from dried starter just takes longer and you don’t want to waste this relatively expensive starter. 2) Mix thoroughly. The powdered starter didn’t dissolve as easily as I thought it would. Discovered some partially hydrated clumps at the bottom as I poured into the last jar. I decided not to remix the whole batch and fortunately that worked. 3) Be patient. Instructions say to start checking the activation batch at 5 hours, and let it go until 12 hours if not set. My activation batch took 11 hours to set. Per instructions, after setting I let it set at room temperature for 2 hours and then overnight in the fridge. Subsequent generations are much easier and faster than the first activation batch.Ongoing starter tip: IMHO the instructions from the seller call for too much starter in ongoing batches. I’ve been using a single heaping tablespoon of starter (yogurt from prior batch) per 2 quarts milk and think the resulting quality is great. Too much starter results in yogurt that is sour and possibly thin/grainy. 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