This $27 Yogurt Maker Will Totally Change Your Breakfast Game

If your 2020 goals include being more adventurous in the kitchen or cooking more from scratch, I'm going to suggest you get yourself a kitchen gadget you've probably never considered before: a yogurt maker.

These things have been around forever, are affordable, easy to use, and now more popular than ever, thanks to all the emerging science on the benefits of fermented foods like yogurt for gut health.

Wondering how the heck one makes yogurt? With a yogurt maker, DIY-ing your own creamy breakfast parfait is pretty easy. Basically, you take boiled, strained, and cooled milk, stir in some probiotics (people typically use lactobacillus), seal the mixture in airtight jars, and pop them into the yogurt maker. From there, this electronic appliance provides the perfect temperature and sterile environment to turn that milky mixture into yogurt. (Typically, it takes about six to 10 hours.)

From there, you can strain your yogurt for a thicker consistency and flavor or sweeten it however you like.

If you eat yogurt on a regular basis (like a few times per week), making your own is totally worth your while—especially if you want to have more control over the sweeteners, flavors, and quality of milk used in your eats, or want to save some cash. (Just note that the milk boiling and cooling process can take up to half-an-hour, so it's not a completely effort-free deal.)

Ready to play chemist in the kitchen? Here are the best yogurt makers of 2020, according to the ever-reliable Amazon.