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Title: Starter Culture Incubator - Kitchen Slow Cooker?
Post by: beeman on January 09, 2009, 02:33:19 AM

I was watching my DW getting the slow cooker set up when it dawned on me, a perfect place to run starter cultures. Someone was complaining about trying to set a constant temp, for, I believe it was 10 hours.
Allowing a couple of hours to get up to temp I dipped it at 165F. That is on the high setting, so the slow cooking setting will give two distinct controllable temp settings.
I will try it when DW gets off using it for food, and will give a slow temp setting.
What do you think?

Title: Re: Starter Culture Incubator - Kitchen Slow Cooker?
Post by: Cheese Head on January 09, 2009, 03:34:20 AM

beeman, I use Direct Set Cultures, so don;t need to do that, but if on low setting your slow cooker is still to hot, I just bought a cheap yogurt maker (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,603.0.html) that holds 115F.

Title: Re: Starter Culture Incubator - Kitchen Slow Cooker?
Post by: saycheese on January 09, 2009, 04:04:10 AM

A food dehydrator also will hold a constant temp of anywhere from 95F to 135F.  Pricey but a good alternative if you already have one to dry and store food.

Title: Re: Starter Culture Incubator - Kitchen Slow Cooker?
Post by: Cartierusm on January 09, 2009, 06:10:15 AM

Not really you could buy one off ebay a Ron Popeel one.