Yogurt Experiences

Message Hello Mimi! I just ordered another Starter Pack. About 6 weeks to 2 months ago, I ran out of my prepared Bravo. (It was when I wrote you that I had contaminated a batch and it smelled of yeast.) Well, in a big hurry packing, I forgot about what was wrong with my starter that I intended to bring on vacation. Specifically, I absent mindedly scooped some good yogurt into a sterilized container but with a kitchen knife that I had just used to slice cheddar cheese! I didn't think it mattered. Instead of throwing it away, I kept it. Then, my husband and I went on vacation and I tried to make a batch with my starter. Of course it also smelled like yeast/cheese. I think I wrote to you about not having a warm enough temperature and the yeast problem. Nevertheless, I didn't throw it out and instead refrigerated it. Then, a few days later, the refrigerator went out! So, my husband dragged it outside to be picked up. What I didn't tell him was that my yogurt was still inside. (Why upset him, right?) Well, after a 24 hrs. in the warmth of the unplugged fridge outside in over 100 degrees, apparently the Bravo cultures started to balance out. It had been at the right temperature and no longer smelled like yeast. It smelled like good Bravo yogurt. I decided to taste it. Then, I placed it in the new refrigerator thinking, good! I saved the whole batch. Alas, the next day, it smelled like yeast again so this time I discarded it. Here is the funny thing. After eating about a teaspoon twice, I was sitting in a chair and thought I felt a tickle deep in my left ear. Then, I heard something that sounded being in a hotel and hearing someone finishing taking a shower on the other side of a wall and the water noisily, slurpily draining out. I actually looked at the wall behind me and out the window to see if it was raining. Well, for several minutes in total fascination, I listened to my own ear's Eustachian tube clearing from the power of gravity. It was cool. I think the reason it worked so fast was that the Bravo was at a higher concentration of probiotics and the fact that I had already been on a Bravo regimen for several months. I'm convinced it truly works. I told you before the story about how the first time I had a let down response. I thought my husband had opened a horrible toxic can of auto paint in the bedroom, but it was from fumes I had inhaled at a car paint shop six weeks earlier! Wow. We were just in Daytona Beach Sand n Surf resort, and I told another owner about Bravo and it coming from Christmas, Florida. She was very interested and I think she will order, too. Well, sorry for "bending your ear" for so long! Thanks for listening. Have a wonderful Labor Day and God Bless You Athena