Make Yogurt in your Instant Pot Ultra

How to make yogurt in your Instant Pot Ultra. Easy and fun!

I have been making yogurt at home for my family for years, and I'm so excited to use the Instant Pot Ultra. Homemade yogurt is less expensive and so healthy! Try it and see!

Use any of your favorite live culture yogurt as your starter. Here's what I'm using in this video:

***1/2 Gallon of milk (I used 1% organic in this video)
***Starter yogurt (any yogurt with live cultures. I used StoneyField Vanilla Organic in this video). The yogurt you make will become your own starter yogurt for your next batch!
***BONUS TIP: Be sure your sealing ring in your Instant Pot lid does NOT have a strong onion smell from prior use when making yogurt.

Once you make your yogurt, if you have an extra inner pot and a silicone lid (see my kit below if you don't-these are great extras to have on hand) you can pop the pot right into your fridge and serve directly from it. The pot chills so well!

I recommend to gently stir the yogurt into the milk so as not to upset the live cultures. Don't add the yogurt to your milk while it is too hot as it will kill the cultures.

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[TheLastMinuteCook]

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[lindsay]

I’ve watched a bunch of instant pot recipes for yogurt made with the instant pot, and this is by far the best one. I hope to see more instant pot recipes from you!

[selenasaisai]

Thank you! You are the only one that taught me to take out the yogurt from fridge to prevent temperature competing too much. I think it might be the reason my yogurt failed previous time. Once I did what you said, my yogurt worked! Thanks!

[elkehaggerty]

Finally some clear instructions on how to use the Ultra to make yoghurt! Thank you! The two booklets that came with the Ultra were so unclear, not even giving the temperature or times, or even how to set the milk to boiling. I really appreciate the clarity in your video.

One question: if you want to make 4L (basically a gallon) at one time, does that affect bribging it to boil or the incubation time?

[faeryfox]

I tried your method. I did strain mine for Greek yogurt. It was the creamiest and best ever. Today, I will make a whole gallon's worth. Thanks for filming at odd hours and all the prep needed to achieve that.

[WaywardWaggs]

We just used our instant pot for the first time on Thanksgiving to cook our turkey. It turned out great.

[AsiyaShaikh]

Very clear instructions. Thank you. The booklets are pretty useless for yogurt. I'm trying this right now. Have my milk coming to room temp.

[risaoram]

How long is the boil step? Does it turn off automatically?

[mollysmith]

Wow, I never knew to push down the vent for a function like yogurt! Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Like you, I'd been making yogurt for years but with a stovetop/crockpot/oven method and now that I have an IP Ultra needed to learn how to do it with this appliance. Thank you for the tutorial! Can't wait to try it out with the lactose-free milk my family needs. The extra tips were a great bonus. New subscriber here now!

[shobabass]

Quick & easy, I would fallow this method. Thanks

[dallaw]

This worked great - top notch video instruction, even a lunk like me can't mess it up. Also used my pour over setup to separate the whey and I made my own greek gurt. Now I'm that guy who makes his own yogurt, thanks to YOU!

[martagonzalesfineart]

Thank you for this video lesson. Just made my first batch and it came out perfect!

[anuxoxo]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I made it successfully following your method. Lots of love & best wishes to you from Canada ❤️

[Redfoxxx]

Thank you for the great recipe and easy to follow instructions 👍👏

[hunterdogztc]

Loved the video. Thanks a ton for posting it. My first batch of Yogurt is in the Instapot this very minute. Wish me luck!

[shankarsway]

Thank you. We got our IP nowand going to make yogurt as the start. Thank you for providing help.

[HappyHimitsu]

Good job. :) I used this video to help me be more confident making yoghurt in our Instant Pot Ultra for the first time. It finished at 10am this morning and was a great success!

(I got a little chuckle out of the part here when you tell your [husband?] to come and put the camera closer. "Hell hath no fury....")

Anyhow, keep up the good work :)

[bw]

Thank you! I have made yogurt in my croc pot before and incubated it in the oven. Making my first batch in my instant pot today from your instructions, will post update tomorrow when its done.

[Jennifer-ozec]

So glad I found your video! I watched a few IP videos for making yogurt but yours is the only Ultra I have seen. So grateful. The other videos did give me the principle of making yogurt in the Instant Pot, though. I will be making mine tomorrow. So excited. I've had a 3QT LUX for about. a year and just upgraded to the ULTRA 6QT. Thank you, you, thank you!!!!
Do you just run your pot under really hot water to make sure it's sanitized, or do you actually use the sanitize button before you start?

[bw]

OK here I go again as I have been testing the instant pot making yogurt since I had 2 failed batches. I wanted to make my yogurt in jars in the ultra. I used the starter from my successful batch I made in the pot not jars. So I found that in the jars (after I sanitized them) I selected steam for 1 minute with my milk in the jars and let the pot naturally decompress on its own (with a cup of water on bottom of pot) The milk was °180 after 1 min in steam. Put jars in water bath to cool to 115° then added starter. After All that I put jars back in on yogurt function for 8hrs.