Viili Perpetual, No-Cook, Homemade Yogurt: How to Make the World’s Easiest, Healthiest, 100-Percent Natural Yogurt

I loved the book!

Let's start with what I like: he goes over the health benefits of Villi yogurt. He makes a valid point that you don't need pasteurized milk to make yogurt, after all, our ancestors didn't have pasteurized milk. I can validate that with my own personal experience.He does give some recipes, however, what most people want is yogurt that resembles store bought. That usually means a flavored yogurt. He gives a recipe for vanilla, unfortunately, he uses stevia, and not everyone has access to that. Not to mention, he uses vanilla extract instead of vanilla powder. No other flavored store bought like yogurt recipes are given. I suppose that's to be expected with something that's more of a booklet. However, that's what most people would want, recipes for things like cherry yogurt, peach yogurt, blueberry yogurt, etc. And something that doesn't use stevia, but things more readily accessible to sweeten it.The one problem I had was that his instructions to use only the residual in your jar to make your next batch of Villi didn't work for me. It's for this and the above reason that I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. Perhaps this has to do with different lineages of Villi yogurt. The instructions that came with my Villi started said to use 1 tablespoon per cup of milk to make your next batch, and that turned out to be correct for me. In my experience, using the residual will not ferment your next batch of Villi. My culture came from Cultures for Health, which has very good Villi cultures, not the place he suggests in his book.But again, that could be due to differences in Villi lineage.

This book is full of errors, in one place the book says one thing and in another it says the opposite. It says that Viili is the only no cook (mesophilic) yogurt, yet on their web site it has three other ones and other web sites have as many as ten more. It says that their web site is the only place you can order the starter, there are at least three other web sites you can order from. The book never tells you that you can extend the storage be freezing it. The author need to re-research his subject before editing this book.

Another great book

Does not include as much information as I expected from this book. There are multiple obvious errors and it seems as if it’s an advertisement for Seed Renaissance. I’m not very happy about paying for an advertisement. Most of this information in here can be easily found online.