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From red paper clips to the tears of Dana Boyer, the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce held its 77th annual dinner last week.
The red paper clips came from the keynote speaker and Boyer's tears streamed after she was named the chamber's Volunteer of the Year as the Chamber celebrated a year of change and progress.
"I am so honored," Boyer said after being named the Volunteer of the Year and walking a gauntlet of hugs to the Centennial Building stage. "To be recognized by your fellow businesses, that is a real honor. I would not be able to do anything without them.
"Also, I would not be able to do anything without (husband) George Boyer. This is just such an honor for us."
Boyer was recognized, specifically, for her work on two events.
When Fourth of July fireworks were threatened with cancellation due to money, Boyer undertook a private sector fundraising campaign that secured more than $6,000 for the celebratory fireworks show.
In the fall, Boyer was crucial in realizing the continuation of Ghosts on the Coast for Halloween, including a candy drive.
Boyer's award was the last on a night during which nearly 200 attendees feasted on food from Sunset Coastal Grille, enjoyed their favorite beverage and saluted a year of forward progress.
Outgoing board president Guerry Magidson – Magidson, Dave Ashbrook, Steve Newman and Johanna White will leave the board – noted that the Chamber had added members, expanded its reach more fully to Wewahitchka and by year's end had become a free-standing Chamber with economic development under a new organization.
Magidson said site visits by potential new businesses had increased during the past year and that the Chamber is on solid footing heading into 2013.
"I want to thank all the board members for all their work this year," Magidson said.
The "Business of the Year" was awarded to Goodwill Industries of the Big Bend, Inc.
The charitable non-profit provides job training, education and employment to people with disabilities and other barriers to employment, said Brooke Lochore, vice president for public relations with the Tallahassee office of Goodwill Industries of the Big Bend, Inc.
The Port St. Joe Goodwill store is a success story within the organization, which covers 22 counties.
The Port St. Joe store has been Store of the Year for the organization two consecutive years.
In 2010, the store and staff realized an 18 percent increase in sales and in 2011 the increase was 21 percent.
Given the store's success, Lochore said, the store was relocated from the 200 block of Reid Avenue to U.S. Highway 98, providing greater visibility
"This new location is larger and right on the highway," Lochore said. "We have more visibility and we feel that has helped Goodwill continue its growth."
In 2012, the Port St. Joe had an increase of 38 percent in sales and 10 percent increase in donors.
The move to a new location also allowed the store to hire more employees and open a full-time staffed Career Training Center providing a host of free services to anyone in the community.
Those services include job placement, job readiness training, job clubs, computer skills, GED preparation, QuickBooks training and job counseling and referral services.
The center will offer hospitality and Certified Nursing Assistance training this year.
"All these service are free thanks to the community for donating and shopping at Goodwill," Lochore said.
On the business side of last week's dinner, the Chamber also welcomed in new board members Zach Childs, Trish Petrie, Barbara Radcliff and Dwight Van Lierop.
The keynoted speaker was Kyle MacDonald who conquered some microphone issues to provide an overview of a project he undertook which started with one red paperclip, also the title of his book.
MacDonald posted the paper clip on a website for trade and through a series of trades – during which MacDonald jumped to a door knob, a generator, a snowmobile, a year's free rent and a day with rocker Alice Cooper, among other items – MacDonald ultimately wound up with a house.
"If you have a dream, a plan and desire, you can do anything you want," MacDonald said.


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DukeTyrion wrote:Hi,
I wonder if I could get some help understanding the order of the different Terry Pratchett books please?
I have read various books (my favourite being Small Gods), although I heave always read them in a fairly random order.
What I would like to do, is go back and re-read the books in order, based on the series, so I would like to know the list and order of;
The Guard Books
Guards, Guards ... Men at Arms ?
The Death Books
Mort ... Reaper Man ... Hogfather ?
The Witch Books
I am at the same time trying to avoid the rincewind books, because for some unexplained reason, I have just not been able to get into them.
Thanks for any assistance you can give.
Cheery wrote:Hi, Duke! Welcome to the Forum!
*points at Tony's post* That's what you call a great reference list!
Wow, there's stuff on this list I haven't even heard about
Thanks Pooh, it's in there now.poohcarrot wrote:"After the king" (1992) was not included in the anthology list.
DukeTyrion wrote:Excellent.
Thanks for the lists all.
I have finished Guard, Guard and Men at Arms recently, so it's on ith the Watch books for now, with Feet of Clay next in line
Tonyblack wrote:DukeTyrion wrote:Excellent.
Thanks for the lists all.
I have finished Guard, Guard and Men at Arms recently, so it's on ith the Watch books for now, with Feet of Clay next in line
Happy to help and enjoy Feet of Clay.
I loved the way Terry had used a seperate font for the Golems in that one. I don't know why he didn't use it in later books, or in the US version of Feet of Clay.
Darn you! I had to look it up didn't I?Jan Van Quirm wrote:Yep Cheery - The Talking Golems All Use Initial Caps - which is so bloody fiddly I'd have kept to the nice vaguely Yiddish looking typeface
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So apparently I had built up quite a bit of static electricity when I touched my mouse and it zapped. Normally I wouldn't care too much about that (that hasn't happened before though) but, when that happened, for a split second all my peripherals got disconnected and then reconnected, e.g., unplug the keyboard and then plug it back in. Since my knowledge about things like this is very bad, my question is - has my motherboard been damaged? Can stuff like this damage my motherboard/anything connected to it? If so, how to check that? So far everything seems to be working fine (*knock on wood*) but I'm still kinda paranoid.
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Well, that's exactly what happened. I have a G500 and its scroll wheel is metallic + it's wired as well.
Sounds like a strange situation that all your peripherals would cut out like that. I'm assuming your mouse has some metal on it which triggered you to discharge into it. And then your mouse must be wired, which sent the discharge into the USB port of your PC. It's definitively possible, I guess, but pretty unlucky.
Thank you for the information! I really hope it's like you said and no harm has been done. Either way, my mind is much more calm now. I upgraded recently so anything like this and I'm getting very nervous as I don't feel like spending even more money.
It's simply your usb controller that detected a voltage peak and therefore shut down. That in turn caused all peripherals attached to that controller to become unavailable. You shouldn't worry about it. It's the exact reason why usb controllers have resettable fuses.
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To answer your question. As long as everything works, you should be fine. Just be more careful. If you have big issues with being staticy all the time, you can get a dehumidifier and it will pretty much solve the problem. Or find something else metal to discharge yourself with.
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Apr 22, 2009
I want my iLEGO!
Some might say the obvious answer is iPod, but for me, the answer SHOULD be iTunes. Yes, the iPod is everywhere - in all colors, shapes, and storage capacities. It could be argued that we now have the NXT in white, gold, and black, but inside it's the same NXT. So let's look at iTunes. iTunes started out selling individual songs for 99 cents each. We no longer had to buy an entire CD with 15 or so songs, half or more of which we rarely listened to. (Has anyone else noticed that the music industry has changed to a One-Hit-Wonder model? The days of super bands is really over - we buy this song from Band 1, that song from Band 2, and on and on... I can't remember the last time I bought a full album.)
Anyway, let's try and fit the iTunes model to LEGO. It's not easy. Yes, we have the LEGO Factory where you can build your own designs, upload them, and others can select them and purchase the pieces needed to build their own. But the software is extremely limited - I'm held to a few small collections or groupings of similar parts and I can't stray. I'm not impressed.
"The Long Tail" says that we're niche consumers these days... and it's completely true. But not when it comes to LEGO. We are stuck, really, buying whatever pre-packaged models they choose to offer us. Many of them sell a ton, but LEGO appears to be missing out on The Long Tail of the market. Yes, we have Bricklink if we wish to purchase individual pieces, but there's some real issues with costs on that site... while many pieces are cheap and can be bought in bulk, other parts that might be considered "rare" are priced sky-high and out of reach of most consumers. We're talking about plastic here! Just like the diamond market, LEGO controls the flow of parts and this in turn affects pricing. I don't know what the difficulty would be for LEGO to make every variation of molded plastic it sells available for individual purchase - but this is the age of the Internet, folks... there's some talented programmers out there that could probably figure out how to create an online catalog of every item LEGO sells and a whiz-bang shopping cart system to boot. Maybe LEGO only sells 1 piece of Part#123456 a month, but if 100,000 people each buy 1 unique piece at a reasonable price, now LEGO is dipping into The Long Tail - more variety of parts sold in smaller quantities. As Chris says, a large number (the total # of parts LEGO makes) multipled by a small number (the number of people purchasing each part) is still a LARGE NUMBER!
Chris talks about Producers - about how the tools to create are democratized. Well, this doesn't exactly happen with LEGO because of intellectual property. You can't go make your own molds and sell your own LEGO-compatible parts - you'll have lawyers camped on your doorstep tomorrow morning. (But Producers do exist in another area of the LEGO world, especially when it comes to MINDSTORMS, and I'll address that in a separate post soon.) So, unless LEGO offers to make parts available for individual purchase, consumers will be held to purchasing big kits (Technic kits, for example) at big prices so they can have that one special part included in the package. Yes, LEGO is making money on the sale of that kit, but I'll bet you that they'd sell more of that ONE SPECIAL PART at a reasonable price than they will of the BIG KIT... and still make a nice profit. At least that's the argument in "The Long Tail" and I can't find a hole in the claim. My Calculus is rusty, but the area under the curve of The Long Tail is still a hefty volume (or profit) of sales compared to the "Hit" section that is basically all of LEGO's packaged kits.
The question, ultimately, is this: What do I want? (And by "I," I mean ME... the lone consumer.) I want to expand my ability to design cool robots by shopping online and purchasing those specialty items that I lack. I like Bricklink, but I'd really prefer to buy from LEGO - no offense, Bricklink sellers. I can buy 30 or 50 or 70 unique pieces from one place rather than 30 or 50 or 70 individual sellers... I have a place to ship a part back to if something is damaged and KNOW that I'll be taken care of... and I know I'm not being gouged with an unrealistic price. If LEGO monitors its sales, it'll know when something is priced too high and can immediately fix it and watch sales start to grow.
Chris has a new book coming out in July 2009 called "Free" - it's based on an excellent article he wrote for Wired magazine a while back. I won't even get started in this post to address how LEGO might take some of his concepts there and implement them - yes, another post for later... sorry.
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- Cavorter said...
While I think your argument has some merit, one thing to keep in mind about "The Long Tail" is that it applies better to some types of commodities than others. One of the reasons why it works so well with electronically distributable Intellectual Property is that the cost to store and "ship" the goods is relatively small. Apple has to pay for a datacenter or two and the bandwidth, but the sales pretty well cover those costs (though not necessarily entirely cover the physical costs along with the licensing). The problem is not putting together a great web store, LEGO has two strikes against being able to effectively take advantage of "The Long Tail" that stem from selling physical objects:
1. Physical objects need to be warehoused somewhere and that costs money. In order to have an inventory of millions of parts available for Joe and Jane Builder to be able to order on a whim there needs to be a big warehouse somewhere, and probably two or three for geographic convenience, that has employees or expensive automation that goes and finds the parts and puts them in bags and ships them. Certainly possible but it presents a significant cost.
2. Their existing production lines and processes may not be set up to fill that warehouse in a way that makes sense. With the huge number of different parts and a similarly large number of colors for those parts it would be a significant logistical problem to ensure that all of those parts in all of those colors are available in enough quantity to satisfy whatever projected demand. In any industrial production there is a large amount of cost in setting up your processes so that you produce what you need in time but also ensure that it costs the least to do so. Books, CDs, and Movies are easy with modern Print-On-Demand fulfillment systems, but I wager that LEGOs production systems are not tooled to put out 1000 of X and 200 of Y very quickly unless it's scheduled far in advance.
I think it's more likely that paying royalties on the design for a part from LEGO that you produce in whatever quantity you want on a household fabrication machine ("3D Printer") is going to happen before being able to buy anything direct from the factory.
Good post though, and certainly interesting to think about.
- Apr 22, 2009, 1:18:00 PM
- Fay Rhodes said...
Thanks for raising this issue again, Jim. I've heard all the arguments from LEGO defenders, but it still doesn't make sense to me.
This is particularly important to those of us who see the NXT as art.
- Apr 22, 2009, 8:34:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
Chris Anderson has a name in his book for the LEGO model - I think he calls it a hybrid - a company that sells a physical item that requires storage space but something that could (or is) sold online.
Because our homes don't have true fabricators (YET!), we can't download LEGO blueprints for "printing" our own parts at home... (but the day is coming, I hope).
You bring up a good point about LEGO's manufacturing lines - making all those parts requires space, molds, materials, and personnel - totally agree. But the amount of revenue that would be generated by delving into The Long Tail would most likely easily cover the costs of keeping 30 to 50% of all LEGO parts "in stock" and available for purchase... maybe I'm wrong.
- Apr 22, 2009, 9:05:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
Fay wrote: "I've heard all the arguments from LEGO defenders, but it still doesn't make sense to me."
Why not? What factual evidence contradicts it? I'm thinking in terms of evidence here.
Jim: "But the amount of revenue that would be generated by delving into The Long Tail would most likely easily cover the costs of keeping 30 to 50% of all LEGO parts "in stock" and available for purchase... maybe I'm wrong."
Sort of the same question here: Evidence? What are stocking costs, or shipping/packaging costs, and what would the per piece price end up - is it enough to take advantage of the long tail effectively? Cavorter questions the ability of LEGO to turn out small runs of parts... which from everything I've learned about their system, how you mold ABS plastics, and even distribution strategies, seems well supported (any body remember the "Spring Cleaning" packs at Wallgreens & Kroger, of all places, a few years ago? Remember the reason?). Or consider for instance the recent (really high!) price hike suffered by PaB/Factory, and the stated reasons for it.
Understand it's not the desire I question - Fay, I perhaps have even *more* use for buying parts in small specific quantities than you do (I've worked commissions in LEGO, for example). But I'm not basing conclusions here on my desire, or even my beliefs... just what the evidence supports at the current time.
As to the long tail, does Chris Anderson's book say it's always got to be the monolithic parent company that ends up directly supplying the niche market in the Tail? It would seem to me in things like Bricklink you have an excellent model of the long tail system: ready to distribute in any size lot, locally stocked, and distributed in a very flexible form (the Bricklink marketplace can adjust very rapidly to changes in supply and demand). No, it may not be as easy as "go to LEGO and click on link"... but it's not far off.
How hard are those niche markets willing to work to find what they need? The existence of professional LEGO artists and a thriving Bricklink community seems to imply a functioning system... if not the one everybody wants.
- Apr 22, 2009, 10:01:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
Every point you make is valid, so my response here is just more discussion, not meant as a debate of your comment.
It seems to me that LEGO could easily enter The Long Tail by simply increasing its production capacity, but I'm not a LEGO production engineer, so maybe it's not as easy as it sounds... but it should be! Production costs are never going to be greater than the sale price of an item or a company would never be in business, right?
I like Bricklink - I just don't like having to cherry pick items from such a large collection of sources... LEGO should be THE SOURCE, with Bricklink around to keep them honest (and vice-versa).
I want a linear actuator - I don't want to pay $100+ for a kit to get that part. I want to add it to my shopping cart at LEGO.com, along with a few other must-have items, and not worry about the condition of my purchased item, whether or not it will actually ship on time, or if it's even in stock. I don't have to worry about LEGO putting an item up for sale just to "test the market" for what it's worth.
Supply and Demand rules here - if LEGO chooses to keep a lower stock of higher priced components, the price will fluctuate higher... likewise, millions of small black connectors can be sold for less than a penny each because LEGO's likely to have millions sitting in a bin somewhere.
As LEGO is unlikely to comment here about their inventory and production methods, it's all guesswork, but Chris' book has some fairly solid case histories that seem to me would hold true to LEGO even given its product type.
- Apr 22, 2009, 10:13:00 PM
- Auraelius said...
I'm a new participant in this market, so if I'm asking the wrong questions or asking them in the wrong place, please set me straight.
I have a reasonably small list of NXT/Technic parts I need for both me and a client. Maybe three dozen parts in quantities less than a few dozen each. I haven't purchased through Bricklink yet because I haven't set aside the hours it will take to 1) find out which vendors stock which parts, 2) balance the prices & availability from all the possibilities while 3) trying to aggregate vendors so as to minimize shipping costs. Since they are the only market of these individual parts, I must, sooner or later, just work through it.
Why is this market still so inefficient? Am I missing something? Is there a way to have the site take a parts list and help select vendors so as to optimize the order? Or are things really as manual as they seem to be?
Why hasn't somebody at Bricklink written this sort of purchasing assistant software yet? Is the code base open source? Do they need some help?
You've talked already about how the long tail effect becomes practical when the costs of production and distribution become very low. It also needs a very efficient market where ultra-niche consumer and producer relationships can be created and consummated with a minimum of overhead. This is what eBay and Amazon do.
Perhaps if Bricklink were easier to use (again, assuming I'm not clueless about how to use it :) it would be more popular and perhaps Lego would participate. Having a secondary market for parts would help them. Many companies participate in eBay because it reduces their sales channel costs for certain products.
Thanks for your patience and tolerance for a newbie's questions.
- Apr 23, 2009, 4:03:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
[Note: Jim is somebody I consider a good friend, and for anyone who doesn't know us, trust me - we're not attacking each other or even the other persons viewpoints, just having a discussion.]
Jim - I'd *love* LEGO to allow anyone (everyone!) to special order any pieces in any colors and any amounts... and at or very near production costs. But, while this may be possible, where I doubt is that it's easy... or that it should be. That's a very significant logistical system, and would imply a significant amount of stock on-hand and waiting (or an equally sophisticated demand prediction capability to figure out when to make another run of a certain part in a certain color), as well as optimizing the size of each product run (remember, the moulding machines need to be cleaned carefully every time the pellet color is changed, resulting in waste), and a custom-made sorting and packaging system, linked to a detailed front-end internet-based browsing and ordering system... and *all* of these are going to add to the cost of the final product. In some cases fixed development cost (high, but fixed, like the custom packaging system). In some cases a per part overhead (wastage in the moulding process, storage costs of finished parts stockpiles, tax issues due to holding stock).
Of course, another solution to supplying the niche markets in the long tail is to let smaller independent suppliers handle the details in whatever way they think they can. And if the market ever gets big enough to make the parent company tempted, they move into it.
Can you see why I'm skeptical of why LEGO would do this move? I'm still amazed that LEGO Factory and on-line PaB have worked out as well as they have, and the continual change in both availability and cost indicates to me it's not a "supply everything" system, but a way of turning a marginal profit from the excess stock, a more sophisticated version of the "Spring Cleaning" technique.
Auraelius asks, "Why is this market so inefficient"? Quite possibly, because the market is so small it's not worth it to make it more efficient. It's easy to think, looking at blogs like this, that there's a *huge* demand for this sort of thing... but that doesn't mean it's a big enough demand to drive the market rapidly. Even BrickLink have ways to set up a "wish list I think (although I've never bothered to use it, as I don't find it that difficult to sift through). As to writing a script to optimize the process... can it take into account that each Bricklink store has different shipping policies, different shipping distances, different currencies (Bricklink is international), shipping costs, set their own prices, and regularly have sales with very individual structures ("50% any part that you buy all the existing stock", or "5% off all used stock (but not new), reducing by 5% every day all week until I stop", etc.)
OK, really, I'll get a life now :).
- Apr 24, 2009, 10:56:00 AM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Apart from discussing the logistic challenges, I'd rather point out something that instantly came to my mind when reading Jim's initial post: I'm not so sure whether the iPod/iTunes analogy to LEGO really holds (whatever some LEGO managers may put on their office walls). No doubt, the iTunes concept in connection with a physical tool to use it (iPod) is economically successful to Apple, changed the way music products are bargained and has its short-term benefits for end consumers. However, apart from the fact that the long-term effects of that business model might be seen at least doubtful in regard to the devastating impact on the artists themselves (most of them are forced to concentrate on the single "killer hit" as album sells are dropping to zero, whatever that means for sustainable creativity and artistic versatility) and subsequently for the music community, Apple with iPod/iTunes plays by no means a creative role in the music community or industry itself. They are very creative (sometimes even brilliant) when it comes to electronic soft- and hardware, but as for the art of music, they are completely uncreative, just making use of it as some sort of consuming tool provider. Few songs only (if any at all) have ever been created because of the existence of iPod/iTunes, I'd presume, but a lot of will never be created because of it (due to reasons stated above).
In this analogy, LEGO rather is to be compared to the manufacturer of musical instruments rather than to a provider of electronic gadgets to consume the music; and to some extent, to the artists themselfes, as LEGO is not only a manufacturer of some plastic parts: what made and makes LEGO so valuable is that they do a lot on top of these small plastic parts, don't they?
I'm not sure if I'd be happy for LEGO to turn into something for robotics like iPod/ITunes is for music - just a provider of consuming tools...
- Apr 24, 2009, 9:58:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
Brian Davis - it is ON! (kidding...)
Great discussion going here - maybe we should alert Chris A. and ask him to chime in :)
Seriously, though - most of my "requests" are probably unrealistic - I'm writing from that perfect-world mindset where there's no such thing as shortage of materials, shortage of skilled labor, etc...
Bricklink is fine - I've used it before and so have 1000s of others... but I still believe that LEGO needs to investigate how it could possibly offer 25 to 50% of its available micro-pieces (is that an okay word to use?)... for individual purchase. This is most true for Technic pieces, where we're really limited to the NXT kit we own and whatever Technic boxed kits we can afford. I hate going into the LEGO store and not being able to buy beams and L-brackets and other Technic pieces that I need just ONE MORE to finish something... ever been there?!
LEGO is not at risk of some company coming in and replacing them... so a competitor diving into The Long Tail isn't really a possibility (unless SOMEONE at Bricklink - yes, ONE person is all that's needed - figures out how to really become profitable selling individual Technic pieces at reasonable prices AND keep them in stock).
I'm not talking about competition to LEGO here - I'm talking about missed revenue. LEGO is a business like any other - it's ultimate goal is to make a profit, let's not kid ourselves. That said, if LEGO isn't investigating The Long Tail, they're missing out on what the book argues to be about 33% or more of potential overall profits (if I understand the math correctly).
- Apr 24, 2009, 11:18:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Jim said: "I hate going into the LEGO store and not being able to buy beams and L-brackets and other Technic pieces that I need just ONE MORE to finish something... ever been there?"More than a million times. Actually, I was surprised at the beginning of my adult LEGO activities (ahahaha, how weird that sounds! ;) ) that I couldn't do that.
I'd love to also. That's a completely valid and understandable wish by any LEGO® builder.
But is it a wish of TLG?
I'm not so sure that TLG would also benefit from that. Would the sales of new models suffer and to what extent?
Don't forget that TLG is financing all the creative work and research with the (comparatively expensive) model sets (my guess).
I'd really love to hear the view of someone in TLG's economical department...
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After a nearly 50 year history, Project Community is in the process of restructuring to ensure it is around for an additional 50 years!
These key structural revisions include the formal partnership, or division of labor, between the Ginsberg Center, where my office is situated, and the Sociology Department, where Ian Robinson, the faculty sponsor's, office is located.
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Greek-Style Yogurt with Kevin Lee Jacobs
Why? Well, to put it simply - he's just someone you want to know - you know? He's a cutie pie!
Kevin's officially a gardener by trade, but he delves into all aspects of home life including birds, decorating, bread, flower arranging, desserts, preserving and, of course, cheese making.
When he gave away a free Mozzarella Kit recently, he received almost 500 comments from hopeful participants!
That's more responses collected than anyone else we know. (Apparently quite a few of us enjoy his website!)
Kevin began making cheese a year ago, and, so far, he has made cottage cheese, cream cheese, ricotta, 30 minute mozzarella and Greek-style yogurt (shown below). As you can see, he appears to be a master of photography along with everything else...
Greek-Style Yogurt
By Kevin Lee Jacobs at A Garden for the House
I CAN'T SING THE PRAISES of Greek-style yogurt loudly enough. It's luxurious. It's thick and creamy. It's rich in pro-biotics. I love it for breakfast, either all on its own or topped with berries (or with my homemade granola). It's great on a baked potato, too, in place of sour cream. Yet for all these healthy, delicious attributes, this yogurt (and all yogurt) is unbelievably easy to make. My method, and a little science:
Greek-Style Yogurt
Ingredients for 8-10 cups of yogurt:
1 gallon milk (any fat content you like; I happen to like whole milk)
3 Tbsp prepared yogurt with live active cultures (check label to be sure) (or, you can use 1 packet of one of our yogurt cultures)
1. To start, pour a gallon of milk into a heavy-bottomed, non-reactive, 6-quart pot. (I like my enameled Le Crusette pot for once-a-week yogurt-making.) Slowly heat the milk to 180F. This is the temperature which will kill off any bad organisms, while creating a sterile environment in which the yogurt bacteria can grow.
The moment the milk reaches 180F, move the pot to a cooling rack, and let the milk cool, uncovered, to 110F. You want the milk to be warm enough to encourage the yogurt culture to grow, but not so hot as to murder the culture. Yes, I'm giving you not just a recipe here, but a science lesson. A science lesson you can eat.
2. Ladle into a small bowl a 1/2 cup of the warm (110F) milk. Then mix into the bowl the "starter" — 3 tablespoons of plain, store-bought yogurt which contains live, active cultures. Do not add more than 3 tablespoons of yogurt, or you'll be sorry. Yogurt bacteria does not appreciate being crowded, and adding too much will thin, not thicken, the milk.
And by the way, if you plan to make yogurt regularly, you will never need to buy commercial yogurt again. Just save 3 tablespoons of your homemade yogurt, and use that for your next batch.
Pour the milk-and-yogurt starter into the big pot. Then, with a slotted spoon or slotted spatula, stir the milk for 30 seconds. Stir with an up-and-down motion, just as you do when making mozzarella.
3. Here's the only tricky part. The milk must be kept between 105F-110F for the next seven hours. You can wrap a towel around the pot and place it your oven, with no extra heat except that of the turned-on light bulb. Or, do what I do, and place the pot on a heating-pad, set to the lowest setting. For extra insulation, place a bath towel over the pot.
4. The next morning (assuming you made this at night), remove the bath towel and lid, and voila! — you've got yogurt.
But it ain't Greek-style until you drain off some — though not all — of the liquid, or "whey." To do this, lay a piece of butter muslin or a cloth napkin in a colander set over a large bowl. Pour the yogurt into the colander, and let it drain until a thick (but still very creamy) texture is achieved — 1 to 2 hours.
What to do with the leftover whey? Save it! Then you can use it in place of water during your next bread-baking adventure.
Storage — Homemade yogurt will keep for 7 days in the refrigerator. I store mine in the little PABA-free plastics tubs pictured above. Remember to save 3 tablespoons of your yogurt, so you can use it as the starter for your next batch. And I promise…you will definitely be making a second batch!
Need a cut-and-paste version of this recipe? Here goes:
Greek-Style Yogurt
Ingredients for 8-10 cups of yogurt
1 gallon milk (any fat-content you like; for better taste, use whole milk)
3 Tbsp plain, prepared yogurt with live, active cultures (check label to be sure)
1. In a 6-quart, non-reactive pot, slowly heat milk to 180F. Remove from heat; let cool to 110F.
2. In a small bowl, mix 3 Tbsp (not more!) prepared yogurt with 1/2 cup cooled (110F) milk. Using an up-and-down motion, stir the milk-yogurt blend into the big pot of milk. Stir for 30 seconds.
3. Set the pot someplace where it can be kept at a warm temperature (between 105F and 110F) for seven hours. An unheated oven, with the light bulb turned on, is one option; otherwise set the pot on a heating pad set to the lowest setting. Cover the pot with a bath towel for added insultation.
4. When 7 hours has past, ladle the yogurt into a colander that you've laid with butter muslin or a big cloth napkin. Let drain until the yogurt reaches the desired consistency — it should be extra-thick, but still creamy — 1-2 hours.
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16 comments:
- shannon i olson said...
I tried yogurt twice, once with a wrapped crock pot and a yogurt that didn't have good cultures, next with a good Greek yogurt and on the stove, I am sure the temp was the problem, so....I like the tip in the oven. Have you or anyone else used a yogurt maker? Are they worth the investment?
- April 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- AGK said...
I make my yogurt in quart jars in an old styrofoam ice chest with an electric heating pad set in it. Keep the temp higher.... 120 to 130. The yogurt will be THICK in six hours.
- April 8, 2012 at 10:48 PM
- Jeri said...
I used to do that (with just the electric blanket) and it worked, but not that fast. You must have one hot electric blanket!
- April 9, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- Jeri said...
Our marketing manager, Sarah, uses our yogurt maker and she holds the jars of yogurt upside down to show how thick the yogurt is. The yogurt doesn't budge, so, yes, our yogurt maker does work!
- April 10, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Joseph Blais said...
I have a 2qt yogurt maker it works great!
eBay or amazon for a great deal!
I use 1/8C. Dry powder milk in my yogurt to make it thicker. Also condensed milk works too.
Sweeten condensed milk will sweeten it as well as thicken!
I have used goats milk fresh or canned, made yogurt, strained it, added herbs & garlic, rolled it into little balls & dried, stored it in olive oil in the frig. It lasted a wile and got better with age!
- April 11, 2012 at 11:09 PM
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- April 12, 2012 at 7:42 AM
- The Rat said...
Where can I find a heating pad that doesn't have the nanny feature of turning itself off after a couple hours? Everyone I can buy new that I can find wants to protect me against myself. Grrr.. Government regulations.
- April 14, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- kensjewl said...
At what point do I add sweetened condensed milk?
- April 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM
- kensjewl said...
At what point do I add the sweetened condensed milk?
- April 16, 2012 at 11:23 AM
- Bill said...
I have a Waring Pro Yogurt Maker which I put 4 quart jars of cultured warm milk into and put the cover on it which leaves about a 3 inch gap to the base. By covering with a towel and setting on 8 hours, I make a gallon at a time. Half goes to Greek style yogurt and the rest into smoothies we have each morning for breakfast.
And I am at my lowest weight in 30 years - thanks in part to the yogurt.
Oh yes, and you can blend in some of those probiotic capsules for a full range of probiotics - I use one that has 18 in it. Note that some have yeast in them so you may just get some bubblies in the yogurt if yeast is involved.
- April 16, 2012 at 9:47 PM
- Liz said...
I made this last night just as stated and it turned out AWESOME! If you have never tried making yogurt this is the way to go. So easy no need for any fancy gadgets. Wrapped pot in a towel and the oven with the light on kept the temp were it needed to be. Drained it first thing in the A.M. and YUM...great stuff! I will make this again. Thanks for posting this blog!
- April 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM
- Jeri said...
Thanks, Liz! I'm so glad you liked it. Happy cheesemaking!
- April 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- leostrog said...
I make my own Greek-styled yogurt , but i don't need to drain it- adding dry milk , 2 -3 tbsp per 1 l of milk( I use dry goat milk from UK) gave me wonderful smooth and very thick yogurt .
During past3 months I tried new starter- Lactina
, authentic Bulgarian starter and it's work perfect- after 4-5 h.*43 C my yogurt is ready. For consistent heating i wrapped my jar with little electric sheet .
- April 21, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- Anne Obelnicki said...
Instead of a heating pad you can simply but your yogurt (in whatever container it's in) into a cooler. The cooler keeps things warm just as well as it keeps them cold. You want a cooler without a lot of extra room. If you end up using a big cooler, put a couple jars of 110 deg F water in there too, to help it stay the same temp.
- June 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM
- Jeri said...
Thanks for the tip - whatever works is right!
- June 14, 2012 at 2:54 PM
- Julie Zupan said...
I have a yogatherm, and haven't tried it yet, has anyone had luck with one?
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CRESTVIEW— The Christmas parade on Main Street on Saturday featured more than 125 groups whose entries ranged from biblical and traditional holiday themes to popular children's characters such as Hello Kitty.
However, one entry from Save Me from the Fire ministry drew criticism from a number of spectators for denying Santa Claus' existence, shouting disparaging remarks about homosexuals and telling people they were going to hell from a megaphone.
Brian Gaines, the ministry's founder and a student at a Christian college in Pensacola, drove the truck while recording video footage for the organization's website. James Forrester preached from the truck.
Following the parade, several people expressed their displeasure on the Crestview News Bulletin's website and Facebook page.
"What control do the organizers have over the entries?" Tina Bannon said on crestviewbulletin.com. "I was very upset with the man on a (megaphone) saying, 'We are living in a sin-filled world … this world is going to burn.' "
"He said he hated to crush our dreams but Santa wasn't real. My daughter was devastated," Emily Self Hayes said. "You can't say that at a Christmas parade where kids are there celebrating and waiting to see Santa."
Gaines said the ministry has participated in "a dozen parades in the area" since May. He defended his group's message and said he plans to return next year.
"Maybe I should have preached more negative. You didn't like that it made you feel convicted about your sins. You hate God and you hate his holy book. Don't worry, I will be back next year," Forrester said on the Facebook page.
The truck, which displayed a sign that read, "I am a King James-only, Bible-thumping, fundamental, pre-millennial, Baptist, Heaven-Hell-Hot-Sweet Street Preachin' Believer," presents the Gospel, the ministry states.
"I suggest they ask why they were offended of the truth," Gaines said. "I don't think anything that was said that night wasn't true."
Some residents said they supported the ministry's right to preach, regardless of its message.
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The issue was to be discussed at the association's meeting today, when the group would review the parade's positives and negatives.
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