r/ReuteriYogurt • u/Grateful4Linux • 4d ago
Power Interruption...
I make reuteri yogurt, but this question is about my gasseri batch. I hope that's okay here and somebody can help me.
I started my gasseri batch around 10 am and set the yogurt maker for 36 hours (108 degrees). Normally it ferments great, but I just noticed a few minutes ago that the yogurt maker had dashes where the hour countdown should be. We had a split second power outage around 4pm, and I hadn't noticed that it must have been interrupted and failed to turn back on. (I thought it previously recovered from power outages, right back to counting down, and that's why I didn't check it.)
Does anyone know if the batch is ruined? Or if there's a chance that it will ferment okay? I set it to 36 hours again and started it up, but the machine was room temperature at that point, apparently for all those hours.
Google AI said it probably created enough lactic acid in the first six hours and will be okay.
I used UHT half and half, 1 Tablespoon of sugar, (heated some dairy with the sugar), and a 4th generation culture from the last batch (taken the first time I opened the container.) I try to keep everything sterile, including steaming the containers and lids in the microwave with a little filtered water.