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How long is a piece of string?

Q. How much money can a barrel without buttom hold

A. Zero

Based on the minimum wage nowadays and income of the average Thai person , to break even is about 10.000 baht

BUT, a lady married to a Foreigner and has a kid or two she will need about 50.000 baht a month living in her own house

You will need bank letter confirming the 800k baht in the bank and copies of your bank book to prove the funds have been in the bank for 60 days on the date you apply.

Copies of your passport pages and TM6 departure card.

A completed TM7 application form.

You may also need proof of residence.

bit tricky all,

" need to proof that the 800.000 baht is in my savings account on the day i apply for the retirement visa",

is it on the same day or can it be 1 day earlier

BTW, I have the yellow Tabian Baan Book.

You confusing extensions and visas.

If you apply for an extension of stay based upon retirement or marriage you do 90 day report to immigration.

What you have now is a multiple entry visa that requires you to leave the country. This can be issued for various reasons including for retirement,

This means I can convert/ reapply for a retirement visa again as before at the immigration office before the 90 day expire of the permit of stay issued at the airport when arrived

What do I need to show again when applying for a retiremant visa?

very clear and precise post.

I just cant see the advandage having a retirement visa versus a marriage visa, other than the 90 days notice of stay by mail which is exactly great, forfeits the border run and the stamps in the passport.

I am married with a thai lady since 19 years and have 2 teenaged kids in school/ university.

Since I have already a 1 year non Immigration O visa , multible , I dont have to worry just right now.

Better I go to the immigration asap and inform myself of the options.

Or go again all of the 9 yards and apply for a retiremant visa before the 90 days permit of stay expires, together with the bank statement of 800.000 baht

Well yes,

now i have a new visa for one year based on the rule of been married to a Thai and shown the bank statement of 800 K.

Is it possible to convert the Non Immigrant O visa into a retirement visa at the offfice in Mae Sai.

I just dont like to travel again as in the past to Mae Sai and go over the border, my passport is getting full soon.

You seem to have a Multi Entry Non imm O visa.

You can enter as many times as you want provided the Visa is valid.

Each entry gives a stay of 90 days.

You then have to exit and return to get another 90 days.

Thank you

Looks like I have to redo the whole procedure of getting a new retirement visa in order to not to have to leave and reentry Thailand?

Sounds to me I have made a mistake not to extend the old retirement visa before it expired but I travelled to Europe then.

I am a retired 70 Y old German living in Thailand in the North.

I had previously (2 Years already) got issued a retirement 1 year visa ( extension) from Mae Sai Immigration together with a Re-entry visa.

I have a Non Immigration M ( multible entry ) for 1 year visa but no Re- entry visa as such yet.

Do I need a re- entry visa should I leave before March as I only got a Permit to stay for 90 days when entering Thailand in December 2014.

Looks like I must apply for a re- entry visa at the Immigration office and a permit to stay for 1 year ?

Do I need again a bank letter to show the 800 K bank deposit for 3 months.

Or is the multible entry M valid for re entry.

Any advise would help.

What's next, abolish the school uniforms?

Yes Bikinis for the girls and boxer shorts for the bous

next time my boy's coming home with the teacher cutting his not long hairs lopside short I'll cut that SOBS b... off

Good information and worth pinning

Hey what the heck?

Why going though that arduant procedure and apply for a Residence Permit.

The Yellow Taban Booklet does the same miracle when going through the Thai Only channel at the airport-

no taxman ever knocks on your door,

you dont have to be married or after a divorce leave the coubtry and reapply for a residence Permit

You do not have to pay the outrageous 195.000 Baht for the pleasure to stay/ live in the LOS

AND if you hAVE KIDS WITH THE mISSUS AND THEY HAVE A FOREIGN (AND ) Thai passport then the trouble starts as the residence Permit is for you only ( eg. have aThai Wife) My son ( half Thai) becomes of fhe age of 18 and wouldlike to join the army/navy/airforce= not possible, (Actually that useless information belongs to another topic) talk about race discrimination, Pfui thats german and means shame on them

I am married (maybe not for much longer) have 2 teenaged kids and have a retirement visa,

I only have to send a letter every 3 moths to my immigration office in the province

and every year go to the Immigration office there and renew my 1 year visa and reentry permit @ about 200 USD cost

the re-entry permit is valid as long as your extension is.

You have to report to Immigration every 90days this is a per-requisite of having an extension.

5 cent worth contribution from Kraxi=member

again, U can report 90 days by mail (EMS) to the immigration

66 years and still waiting !

my missus says, take (eat) the saliva or another fluid from the chin of a dog and you can see and hear ghosts ?????

Is it true?

Dogs can see ghosts!!

My son has seen one in our bathrooms, I live in the sticks, the house is on old temple land, I unearth sometimes strange things when digging up the ground when gardening.

Among it a stone phallus, and a eye in a rock, Rileys believe it or not, besides I grow Baobab trees, which are inhabitated by ghosts from he past, so the wikipedia says.

No, I am not on he booze, its 5 44 am and I could not sleep, the missuz is snoring again.

some 15 years ago I brought some Baobab tree seeds with me from overseas.

Tried to pot plant them flower pot without sucess.

The rest of the seed then I discarded on my compost heap.

Some time after that I accidently burnt the small heap of leaves and forgot about the Baobab seeds.

One rainy season later I saw some saplings of a unknown kind of plant appearing on that compost heap, and that was the beginning of my Baobab career.

Now I have one majestic Baobab of a girth of 7 feet and a approx. height of 15 feet.

In total I have 7 B. trees of different sizes, planted at the same time , but in different gardens/soil.

One is to become a sacred/ordained tree because of its features.

I will build soon an Shinto shrine next to it

Q. are there more Andonsonia Digitata trees growing privately or on state land in Thailand?

OK, here is the real story.

Yes you do need "A" type "B" type trees for increased pollination.

Flowering habits are not determined by temperatures but by type, see chart bellow.

Most trees will self pollinate but in very small quantity; just a couple of fruit per tree.

All Guatemalan types will do well in Phuket.

The main distribution center for grafted avocado trees in Thailand is the "Pak Chong Research Station" located near Pak Chong on highway #2.

https://maps.google....665516260946278

If you are looking for more than a couple of trees, they will graft to order.

If you just want a couple of trees for your garden; before and after Pak Chong; on highway # 2 there many nurseries with grafted avocado trees for sale.

There are a number of Thai Visa members growing avocado.

Just to be clear, the reason you need "A" & "B" type flowers; the female part opens simultaneously with the male part on its opposite.

Bees, or other pollinators, traveling from male to female flowers will find them receptive to pollination !

The pictured avocado is a type A "Peterson" we just ate it yesterday !

I grow: Hass, Peterson, Fuerte, Bucaneer, Booth7 & Pollock; they are all doing well, fruiting.

Good Luck

I grow about 15 different Avocado trees from seeds , bought the Avocade fruit in several shops in Singapore Tachilek, Jakarta and Thailand (Foodland and other Mars.

Potted the seed in a small flower pot in just garden soil, and wait until the first sprout appears.

It takes about 2-3 weeks for that.

You can set the seed upside down or where the stem was.

The sprouting when planting upside down gets several saplings, whilst sticking the seed in the soil where the stem was gets one or two saplings.

The reason i prefer the multible shoots is that the tree grows smaller with lower branches, and easy to reach fruits.

It takes another 4-6 month until the plant reaches a height of approx. 3 feet.

Then i break the crown off and new shoots appear.

Have had planted some trees more than 8-10 years ago, and this year only 2 trees bear fuit (or more correct Vegetables)

The type i grow i have identified as Hass and Bucaneer accoding o the chart in this blog.

Can also be Ruehle and Peterson, as i am not an expert.

This year only one tree is bearing more than 50 fruits other none or one or two round shaped A.

I have tried for some years to graft branches from other A. trees

Did scion grafting and side cutting among other methodes without success.

Had coconut fibres and hormone rooting powder added and sealed off with special Tap ging tape, bought in in a speciality shop.

I do grafting from many other fruit trees and have success, but the avocado tree is not willing to give me a branch with roots.

How do other green finger fellows fare with grafting avocadoes trees.

There is or are shops Pak Chong city in he Kaeng Khoi Muak Lek/Saraburi area who sell grafted A. saplings.

How do I get some of those plants, by mailorder or through a garden centre here in Chiang Rai?

Over to you as Bernhard Trink used to say.

almost forgot to ask other membersin TV.

How to differenciate type A or B, Avocadoes trees? It's a mistery to me.

The pollunating in my garden of trees is the job of the red ants who love to build their nest on almost all trees, exept the avocado tree?

They like the nectar of the flowers but rarely be seen/found outside he flowering season on A. trees, other pests are also absent.

Maybe would be agood idea to make a coctail of cut off A. branches/leaves, and spray other plants/trees with that connoction?

I do that with my Neem leaves, drop some leaves in my homemade EM and let it set and after some weeks spray my veggies with that brew and whoops no more caterpillars are to be seen (until the rain washes the organic pesticide off again).

one more thing, there is alady at the Kasetsart Horticulture station in Chiang Rai, she is my teacher in plant /mushroom growing matters.

i gave her some 10 years ago two small potted Avocado trees whose I had grown from seeds.

She planted them side by side in her research garden, not far away from her mushroom growing sheds.

I followed up on the growing of those trees as I had the same kind, I guess Hass, she had a fruiting season some 7 years after planting the saplings.

My saplings had beautiful trees, BUT no fruits.

Just last week I visited her with my family, and WHOW,

one tree got uprooted by a big storm, the other I could not believe my eyes bears about countless fruits, more of the round kind (guess Hass).

Must be about 500 A. hanging on that tree, most are smallish but one must wait until the rainy season ends, than take down some fruits, and knock them on a hard surface several times until the seed can be heard rolling inside.

than wait fore some days and can be eaten (as Guacamole as i dis in Mexico)

or I eat them with Maggi seasoning or soysauce, my boy loves them.

i buy sometimes he A, in the Doi Cham shop at the Central, or when I transverse hrough Bangkok @ the foodland for 60 baht a pc.

Rather expensive.

I only know 3 location aroung CR where A. grow and bear fruit.

OK, here is the real story.

Yes you do need "A" type "B" type trees for increased pollination.

Flowering habits are not determined by temperatures but by type, see chart bellow.

Most trees will self pollinate but in very small quantity; just a couple of fruit per tree.

All Guatemalan types will do well in Phuket.

The main distribution center for grafted avocado trees in Thailand is the "Pak Chong Research Station" located near Pak Chong on highway #2.

https://maps.google....665516260946278

If you are looking for more than a couple of trees, they will graft to order.

If you just want a couple of trees for your garden; before and after Pak Chong; on highway # 2 there many nurseries with grafted avocado trees for sale.

There are a number of Thai Visa members growing avocado.

Just to be clear, the reason you need "A" & "B" type flowers; the female part opens simultaneously with the male part on its opposite.

Bees, or other pollinators, traveling from male to female flowers will find them receptive to pollination !

The pictured avocado is a type A "Peterson" we just ate it yesterday !

I grow: Hass, Peterson, Fuerte, Bucaneer, Booth7 & Pollock; they are all doing well, fruiting.

Good Luck

I grow about 15 different Avocado trees from seeds , bought the Avocade fruit in several shops in Singapore Tachilek, Jakarta and Thailand (Foodland and other Mars.

Potted the seed in a small flower pot in just garden soil, and wait until the first sprout appears.

It takes about 2-3 weeks for that.

You can set the seed upside down or where the stem was.

The sprouting when planting upside down gets several saplings, whilst sticking the seed in the soil where the stem was gets one or two saplings.

The reason i prefer the multible shoots is that the tree grows smaller with lower branches, and easy to reach fruits.

It takes another 4-6 month until the plant reaches a height of approx. 3 feet.

Then i break the crown off and new shoots appear.

Have had planted some trees more than 8-10 years ago, and this year only 2 trees bear fuit (or more correct Vegetables)

The type i grow i have identified as Hass and Bucaneer accoding o the chart in this blog.

Can also be Ruehle and Peterson, as i am not an expert.

This year only one tree is bearing more than 50 fruits other none or one or two round shaped A.

I have tried for some years to graft branches from other A. trees

Did scion grafting and side cutting among other methodes without success.

Had coconut fibres and hormone rooting powder added and sealed off with special Tap ging tape, bought in in a speciality shop.

I do grafting from many other fruit trees and have success, but the avocado tree is not willing to give me a branch with roots.

How do other green finger fellows fare with grafting avocadoes trees.

There is or are shops Pak Chong city in he Kaeng Khoi Muak Lek/Saraburi area who sell grafted A. saplings.

How do I get some of those plants, by mailorder or through a garden centre here in Chiang Rai?

Over to you as Bernhard Trink used to say.

almost forgot to ask other membersin TV.

How to differenciate type A or B, Avocadoes trees? It's a mistery to me.

The cross-pollunating in my garden of trees is the job of the red ants who love to build their nest on almost all trees, exept the avocado tree?

They like the nectar of the flowers but rarely be seen/found outside he flowering season on A. trees, other pests are also absent.

Maybe would be agood idea to make a coctail of cut off A. branches/leaves, and spray other plants/trees with that connoction?

I do that with my Neem leaves, drop some leaves in my homemade EM and let it set and after some weeks spray my veggies with that brew and whoops no more caterpillars are to be seen (until the rain washes the organic pesticide off again).

OK, here is the real story.

Yes you do need "A" type "B" type trees for increased pollination.

Flowering habits are not determined by temperatures but by type, see chart bellow.

Most trees will self pollinate but in very small quantity; just a couple of fruit per tree.

All Guatemalan types will do well in Phuket.

The main distribution center for grafted avocado trees in Thailand is the "Pak Chong Research Station" located near Pak Chong on highway #2.

https://maps.google....665516260946278

If you are looking for more than a couple of trees, they will graft to order.

If you just want a couple of trees for your garden; before and after Pak Chong; on highway # 2 there many nurseries with grafted avocado trees for sale.

There are a number of Thai Visa members growing avocado.

Just to be clear, the reason you need "A" & "B" type flowers; the female part opens simultaneously with the male part on its opposite.

Bees, or other pollinators, traveling from male to female flowers will find them receptive to pollination !

The pictured avocado is a type A "Peterson" we just ate it yesterday !

I grow: Hass, Peterson, Fuerte, Bucaneer, Booth7 & Pollock; they are all doing well, fruiting.

Good Luck

I grow about 15 different Avocado trees from seeds , bought the Avocade fruit in several shops in Singapore Tachilek, Jakarta and Thailand (Foodland and other Mars.

Potted the seed in a small flower pot in just garden soil, and wait until the first sprout appears.

It takes about 2-3 weeks for that.

You can set the seed upside down or where the stem was.

The sprouting when planting upside down gets several saplings, whilst sticking the seed in the soil where the stem was gets one or two saplings.

The reason i prefer the multible shoots is that the tree grows smaller with lower branches, and easy to reach fruits.

It takes another 4-6 month until the plant reaches a height of approx. 3 feet.

Then i break the crown off and new shoots appear.

Have had planted some trees more than 8-10 years ago, and this year only 2 trees bear fuit (or more correct Vegetables)

The type i grow i have identified as Hass and Bucaneer accoding o the chart in this blog.

Can also be Ruehle and Peterson, as i am not an expert.

This year only one tree is bearing more than 50 fruits other none or one or two round shaped A.

I have tried for some years to graft branches from other A. trees

Did scion grafting and side cutting among other methodes without success.

Had coconut fibres and hormone rooting powder added and sealed off with special Tap ging tape, bought in in a speciality shop.

I do grafting from many other fruit trees and have success, but the avocado tree is not willing to give me a branch with roots.

How do other green finger fellows fare with grafting avocadoes trees.

There is or are shops Pak Chong city in he Kaeng Khoi Muak Lek/Saraburi area who sell grafted A. saplings.

How do I get some of those plants, by mailorder or through a garden centre here in Chiang Rai?

Over to you as Bernhard Trink used to say.

almost forgot to ask other membersin TV.

How to differenciate type A or B, Avocadoes trees? It's a mistery to me.

The pollunating in my garden of trees is the job of the red ants who love to build their nest on almost all trees, exept the avocado tree?

They like the nectar of the flowers but rarely be seen/found outside he flowering season on A. trees, other pests are also absent.

Maybe would be agood idea to make a coctail of cut off A. branches/leaves, and spray other plants/trees with that connoction?

I do that with my Neem leaves, drop some leaves in my homemade EM and let it set and after some weeks spray my veggies with that brew and whoops no more caterpillars are to be seen (until the rain washes the organic pesticide off again).

OK, here is the real story.

Yes you do need "A" type "B" type trees for increased pollination.

Flowering habits are not determined by temperatures but by type, see chart bellow.

Most trees will self pollinate but in very small quantity; just a couple of fruit per tree.

All Guatemalan types will do well in Phuket.

The main distribution center for grafted avocado trees in Thailand is the "Pak Chong Research Station" located near Pak Chong on highway #2.

https://maps.google....665516260946278

If you are looking for more than a couple of trees, they will graft to order.

If you just want a couple of trees for your garden; before and after Pak Chong; on highway # 2 there many nurseries with grafted avocado trees for sale.

There are a number of Thai Visa members growing avocado.

Just to be clear, the reason you need "A" & "B" type flowers; the female part opens simultaneously with the male part on its opposite.

Bees, or other pollinators, traveling from male to female flowers will find them receptive to pollination !

The pictured avocado is a type A "Peterson" we just ate it yesterday !

I grow: Hass, Peterson, Fuerte, Bucaneer, Booth7 & Pollock; they are all doing well, fruiting.

Good Luck

I grow about 15 different Avocado trees from seeds , bought the Avocade fruit in several shops in Singapore Tachilek, Jakarta and Thailand (Foodland and other Mars.

Potted the seed in a small flower pot in just garden soil, and wait until the first sprout appears.

It takes about 2-3 weeks for that.

You can set the seed upside down or where the stem was.

The sprouting when planting upside down gets several saplings, whilst sticking the seed in the soil where the stem was gets one or two saplings.

The reason i prefer the multible shoots is that the tree grows smaller with lower branches, and easy to reach fruits.

It takes another 4-6 month until the plant reaches a height of approx. 3 feet.

Then i break the crown off and new shoots appear.

Have had planted some trees more than 8-10 years ago, and this year only 2 trees bear fuit (or more correct Vegetables)

The type i grow i have identified as Hass and Bucaneer accoding o the chart in this blog.

Can also be Ruehle and Peterson, as i am not an expert.

This year only one tree is bearing more than 50 fruits other none or one or two round shaped A.

I have tried for some years to graft branches from other A. trees

Did scion grafting and side cutting among other methodes without success.

Had coconut fibres and hormone rooting powder added and sealed off with special Tap ging tape, bought in in a speciality shop.

I do grafting from many other fruit trees and have success, but the avocado tree is not willing to give me a branch with roots.

How do other green finger fellows fare with grafting avocadoes trees.

There is or are shops Pak Chong city in he Kaeng Khoi Muak Lek/Saraburi area who sell grafted A. saplings.

How do I get some of those plants, by mailorder or through a garden centre here in Chiang Rai?

Over to you as Bernhard Trink used to say.

sleepwalking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never seen such a circus. And these buffoons are running a country?

Yes,sadly they do and only God knows for how long.

Yessiree, the night of the long knifes is around the corner, and LOORDY how the hears are rolling downhill

its a sight to see, first the SCUM Chalerm and his evil brood.

The pilot association should revoke the flying licence of TS private pilot for flying a criminal around the world.

Aiding and abetting a criminal is a felony.

abroad, than it is OK to go across the bo

Confirmed! One month early will be no problem. That is normal and expected. Waiting until the last few days is actually not advised.

Don't bother getting the bank letter until soon before you go in for your extension application. If it isn't fresh enough, it may be rejected. Rules for how fresh is fresh enough vary between offices.

True, but Mae Sai Immigration office stated previously, the Thai bank-letter about the 800K baht 2 or 3 months in the account

should not be older than 1 month.

If you extending your 1 year R. visa the second time I think the money should be in the bank for 2 months?

If you walk, fly, swim on a visa run makes a difference, as when entering by air the immigration is stamping you a 3 months visa (extension) , IF you have a re-entry permit, S or M, you can leave any time.

BUT the re enry permit expires along with your 1 year visa?

So if you walk across he border and re-enter Thailand, you MUST have a re-entry -permit, if you leaving again or your (remaining) 1 year visa is kaput?

A time ago the re-entry permit could be issued at the airport when leaving, but as soo many things in the land of smiles change for better or for worse, the service is no longer available??

Pls notice the ? marks as i am not so sure about he procedure.

I have adobe in Thailand since 1980 and have seen pigs flying, looks like the immigration supervisors have meetings, where hey can discuss what can make the life of us poor fellows harder.

The 90 days reporting by EMS is sure a helpful thing

i used to make cottage cheese but most times you cant get the milk to curdle because it must be 100%fresh with no added water,i read a report a week ago that did not give a good report about what they had tested,so i have stopped making it.

Try First Food shop/Northern farm if you near Chiang Rai, its in downtown, used to be the only place to buy tabasco etc, has good frozen lamb, steaks, sausages, and a variety of cheeses, prize is right for me.

Tops has good cheeses as well, I would like to buy fresh Brie or camembert, I guess I just have to wait for my next Bangkok -run and stock up in Foodland, Heaven on earth for a Gourmet, or go to Otto on Sukumvit Soi 20, verry good restaurant,The Scwarzwaldstube (Black Forest Inn) and shop sells Farmers bread, Sauerkraut and all kind of wurst and cheeses and other delicatessen try the Eisebein with Sauerkraut, or roasted pig leg / pig knuckle, which i make also by myself and IT Tastes really good especially with english or german wurst. A smoked rib is the ultimate feast boiled in sauerkraut.

tastes funny

I'm intersted in startng to make cheese, I thought I'd start with Camembert, and the ingredient I'm looking for is unhomogenised milk. Does anyone know if this is available here in Thailand and if so what brand name is it?

Many thanks if you can help.

I am sure the only way you will get fresh unhomogonised milk in Thailand will be for you to invest in a cow and squeeze it out yourself

I buy my fresh/cooled unsteriliced clean milk fresh from the farmer in the next village, 10 litres for about 350 baht, is refrigerated und sold in plastic bags, the super sells one carton of 1 litre for 84 baht and is homogenisized.

The milk is only to be gotten through family or friends, as the dairy farmer is under contract ( and cannot sell otherwise), but this is TIT, and anything goes. I am here since 1980 and have seen pigs fly.

I make small quantities of yoghurt and some varietys of cheese, I just need some camembert/brie cultures to make that cheese.

Now I make cheese balls, so they call it, try later with a brick cheese.

I can grom mushroom cultures on PDA in Petridish and have the equipment to sterilize all utensils (a big 5 litre pressurecooker bought in Tachilek)

Absolutely 100 % correct.

Makro in pattaya have all you need.

Does Makro Pattaya have rennet? Never been able to find any here in Bangkok and always get it sent over from the UK.

I make my own vegie Rennet, using boiled Stinging Nettles (Tea) or my Baobab leaves from the trees in my garden, or use lemon juice or melon seed sap, or or or, just klick e-know how.. rennet,

Its free for me and the results are good.

Especially for vegetarian, by using powered milk form soya meal.

I use Chok Chai full-fat milk and for my starter I used Dutchie plain yogurt, which is genuine plain yogurt, no sugar. It has a mild taste that I prefer over the stronger tanginess I got using a powdered starter. I don't add any milk powder, but I do heat the milk to 185F, or 85C. I get a nice thick yogurt after 6 1/2 hours in a yogurt maker which keeps it at the right temp and draft-free. My efforts without the yogurt maker ended up with spoiled, curdled milk instead. It thins out some after stirring. A longer time will make tangier, but not thicker, yogurt.

To make the cheese I let it drain overnight in the refrigerator. I use the broken-off net end of an aquarium net and a 4-cup measuring cup. There has to be some clearance between the bottom of the net and the cup for the liquid. I put a conical coffee filter into the net, and put the yogurt in the coffee filter. Pour off the accumulated liquid to keep the yogurt bottom dry. I do it this way because we happened to have all this stuff on hand. It makes a soft white cheese, very much like ricotta. You can salt it, or sweeten it, or season it with herbs to use it different ways.

Yoghurt making at home the easy way.

I buy fresh milk from a farm nearby in the North of Thailand. Sells for 300 Baht for 10 litres.

Using a unsweetened small yoghurt from Tops as a starter.

Heat in a waterbath system (pot in pot),to prevent burning the milk to 80-85 degrees C, thats 185 F, than cool the milk-pot in the kitchen sink filled with ice-water to 40-45 degree C, than stir in slowly the yoghurt.

Temperatures 2B checked with a thermometer

Now comes the trick!

Using the old rice cooker of the missus, the big 5 litres w. cook and warm features, and insert in the water the cooled innoculated milk, close the lid and go to bed.

The temperature is just right, about 120F or 40-42 oC

In the morning I have yoghurt, just have to cool it in the fridget,You can use small containers such as mason jars or any suitable product, I use the old/sterilized in the microwave yoghurt container of the bigger size also from Tops, just dont scald the lid it will warp and not fit anymore.

I dont know the prize for a yoghurt maker, besides here in the town I did not see any for sale.

Guten Appetit

I also make cheese, but the Rennin is not available here where I live and I have devised another methode o make the milk curl, by using fresh lemmon jiuce, or the broiled/filtered water from STINGING NETTLES, found in the backyard.

Since I grow Baobab trees in my gardens (one is already 30 feet tall and have nursed from seeds collected in Tanzania on Songo Songo island when drilling for gas there, the leaves were boiled (can be eaten as Spinach or Kale. dried leaves are a good tea, mixed with other dried leaves form my garden) the molasse filtered and a 1/2 cup added to 1 gal. milk, and here we have almost cheese.

Boiling the milk and the temperetures almost the same as when making yoghurt, filtering the Wye from the curd is done by using Kau Niau (sticky rice) cloth bought at the weekend marked, must be the fine mesh type like muslin, otherwise some of the curd is squeezed through and lost.

I hang then the squeezed/twisted cheese-bag on a string on the ceiling in the kitchen, I have my own pantry, the old lady is burning her rice in the lean-to thai kitchen.

I leave it hanging for 2-3 days to cure the cheese, then put it in the fridge, or it it off rightaway.

Sometimes when I have a lot of milk, and make cheese(and yoghurt),

the kitchen looks like a cave with cheese dripping, and the smell, Heaven on Earth.

I used to grow mushroom of many kind, used Para tree sawdust and pvc bags, and sterilized all in my autoclaves, discarded old Hospital ones, which I bought cheep years ago and converted to gasfiring by using Tuk Tuk fuel tanks bought from a junk dealer, (they call me for nothing :The TInkerer, or in german=Tueftler).

Mahlzeit

I use Chok Chai full-fat milk and for my starter I used Dutchie plain yogurt, which is genuine plain yogurt, no sugar. It has a mild taste that I prefer over the stronger tanginess I got using a powdered starter. I don't add any milk powder, but I do heat the milk to 185F, or 85C. I get a nice thick yogurt after 6 1/2 hours in a yogurt maker which keeps it at the right temp and draft-free. My efforts without the yogurt maker ended up with spoiled, curdled milk instead. It thins out some after stirring. A longer time will make tangier, but not thicker, yogurt.

To make the cheese I let it drain overnight in the refrigerator. I use the broken-off net end of an aquarium net and a 4-cup measuring cup. There has to be some clearance between the bottom of the net and the cup for the liquid. I put a conical coffee filter into the net, and put the yogurt in the coffee filter. Pour off the accumulated liquid to keep the yogurt bottom dry. I do it this way because we happened to have all this stuff on hand. It makes a soft white cheese, very much like ricotta. You can salt it, or sweeten it, or season it with herbs to use it different ways.

Yoghurt making at home the easy way.

I buy fresh milk from a farm nearby in the North of Thailand. Sells for 300 Baht for 10 litres.

Using a unsweetened small yoghurt from Tops as a starter.

Heat in a waterbath system (pot in pot),to prevent burning the milk to 80-85 degrees C, thats 185 F, than cool the milk-pot in the kitchen sink filled with ice-water to 40-45 degree C, than stir in slowly the yoghurt.

Temperatures 2B checked with a thermometer

Now comes the trick!

Using the old rice cooker of the missus, the big 5 litres w. cook and warm features, and insert in the water the cooled innoculated milk, close the lid and go to bed.

The temperature is just right, about 120F or 40-42 oC

In the morning I have yoghurt, just have to cool it in the fridget,You can use small containers such as mason jars or any suitable product, I use the old/sterilized in the microwave yoghurt container of the bigger size also from Tops, just dont scald the lid it will warp and not fit anymore.

I dont know the prize for a yoghurt maker, besides here in the town I did not see any for sale.

Guten Appetit

I also make cheese, but the Rennin is not available here where I live and I have devised another methode o make the milk curl, by using fresh lemmon jiuce, or the broiled/filtered water from STINGING NETTLES, found in the backyard.

Since I grow Baobab trees in my gardens (one is already 30 feet tall and have nursed from seeds collected in Tanzania on Songo Songo island when drilling for gas there, the leaves were boiled (can be eaten as Spinach or Kale. dried leaves are a good tea, mixed with other dried leaves form my garden) the molasse filtered and a 1/2 added to milk, and here we have almost cheese.

Boiling the milk and the temperetures almost the same as when making yoghurt, filtering the Wye from the curd is done by using Kau Niau cloth bought at the weekend marked, must be the fine mesh type like muslin, otherwise some of the curd is squeezed through and lost.

I hang then the squeezed/twisted cheese on a string on the ceiling in the kitchen, I have my own pantry, the old lady is burning her rice in the lean-to thai kitchen.

Sometimes when I have a lot of milk, and make cheese(and yoghurt),

the kitchen looks like a cave with cheese dripping, and the smell, Heaven on Earth.

I used to grow mushroom of many kind, used Para tree sawdust and pvc bags, and sterilized all in my autoclaves, discarded old Hospital ones, which I bought cheep years ago and converted to gasfiring by using Tuk Tuk fuel tanks bought from a junk dealer, (they call me for nothing :The TInkerer, or in german=Tueftler).

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I should patenting my idea with the Rice cooker for making yoghurt and cheese, but I guess some of my TV forum friends already had the Knack and do the same as me.

Please let me know your experience with that, willya?

I use Chok Chai full-fat milk and for my starter I used Dutchie plain yogurt, which is genuine plain yogurt, no sugar. It has a mild taste that I prefer over the stronger tanginess I got using a powdered starter. I don't add any milk powder, but I do heat the milk to 185F, or 85C. I get a nice thick yogurt after 6 1/2 hours in a yogurt maker which keeps it at the right temp and draft-free. My efforts without the yogurt maker ended up with spoiled, curdled milk instead. It thins out some after stirring. A longer time will make tangier, but not thicker, yogurt.

To make the cheese I let it drain overnight in the refrigerator. I use the broken-off net end of an aquarium net and a 4-cup measuring cup. There has to be some clearance between the bottom of the net and the cup for the liquid. I put a conical coffee filter into the net, and put the yogurt in the coffee filter. Pour off the accumulated liquid to keep the yogurt bottom dry. I do it this way because we happened to have all this stuff on hand. It makes a soft white cheese, very much like ricotta. You can salt it, or sweeten it, or season it with herbs to use it different ways.

Yoghurt making at home the easy way.

I buy fresh milk from a farm nearby in the North of Thailand. Sells for 300 Baht for 10 litres.

Using a unsweetened small yoghurt from Tops as a starter.

Heat in a waterbath system (pot in pot),to prevent burning the milk to 80-85 degrees C, thats 185 F, than cool the milk-pot in the kitchen sink filled with ice-water to 40-45 degree C, than stir in slowly the yoghurt.

Temperatures 2B checked with a thermometer

Now comes the trick!

Using the old rice cooker of the missus, the big 5 litres w. cook and warm features, and insert in the water the cooled innoculated milk, close the lid and go to bed.

The temperature is just right, about 120F or 40-42 oC

In the morning I have yoghurt, just have to cool it in the fridget,You can use small containers such as mason jars or any suitable product, I use the old/sterilized in the microwave yoghurt container of the bigger size also from Tops, just dont scald the lid it will warp and not fit anymore.

I dont know the prize for a yoghurt maker, besides here in the town I did not see any for sale.

Guten Appetit

I also make cheese, but the Rennin is not available here where I live and I have devised another methode o make the milk curl, by using fresh lemmon jiuce, or the broiled/filtered water from STINGING NETTLES, found in the backyard.

Since I grow Baobab trees in my gardens (one is already 30 feet tall and have nursed from seeds collected in Tanzania on Songo Songo island when drilling for gas there, the leaves were boiled (can be eaten as Spinach or Kale. dried leaves are a good tea, mixed with other dried leaves form my garden) the molasse filtered and a 1/2 added to milk, and here we have almost cheese.

Boiling the milk and the temperetures almost the same as when making yoghurt, filtering the Wye from the curd is done by using Kau Niau cloth bought at the weekend marked, must be the fine mesh type like muslin, otherwise some of the curd is squeezed through and lost.

I hang then the squeezed/twisted cheese on a string on the ceiling in the kitchen, I have my own pantry, the old lady is burning her rice in the lean-to thai kitchen.

Sometimes when I have a lot of milk, and make cheese(and yoghurt),

the kitchen looks like a cave with cheese dripping, and the smell, Heaven on Earth.

I used to grow mushroom of many kind, used Para tree sawdust and pvc bags, and sterilized all in my autoclaves, discarded old Hospital ones, which I bought cheep years ago and converted to gasfiring by using Tuk Tuk fuel tanks bought from a junk dealer, (they call me for nothing :The TInkerer, or in german=Tueftler).

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