Agreed, kefir is a total doddle (though I don't do any of the variations that other people do). I do feel bad when I don't have anyone to give surplus grains to. Although yoghurt is more of a faff, it isn't that difficult, especially with a good thermometer and a vacuum flask.
@JMaxB A doddle is something very easy, as opposed to a faff which is not actually difficult, but might be complex, with many steps. Kefir is pour milk onto grains in container, wait. Yoghurt is heat milk, wait for it to cool a bit, add yoghurt, keep warm, wait.
@jeremycherfas Thanks! The podcast reminded me that, in my own lifetime, it was possible to find people who didn't know what yogurt is. In the late 1960s I used to pack a small carton in the lunch I took to my summer job. A workmate/friend asked me what it was. I explained that it was milk cultured with bacteria. He said "You mean GERMS!"
@JMaxB to me growing up, pizza was a unknown thing, pasta felt like new thing and Chinese food was some I read about in books, I had no chance of trying sushi until I was 30 something (I think) ... I now feel like a real country boy 😋
@jemostrom They used to tell us that Scandinavians live on cod and potatoes. It seems that times have changed.
@JMaxB I remember that my grandma to the main village with the order: Go and by some pork. She was eating moose meat and potatoes twice a day, almost every day and she was fed up with it 😋
@JMaxB great story. My mum was a health food nut way back, so we had brown bread bricks and made our own yoghurt in the sixties. Some things just stay with you.