The thing is, I'm not so sure I trust the recipe. Particularly, the directions. Especially, where you get to the part of punching in the YOGURT SETTING. This is where it gets a lot more technical..sort of..or so I was led to believe.
See, we didn't have the Instant Pot with the Yogurt setting, but somehow we found a deal somewhere and ordered the thing. Waiting, practically at the doorstep to get it (in fear of those porch thieves). Got it on a Sunday morning....
And there the box set for about 3 weeks.
It was the boyfriend who wanted to do this, anyway. After all, he is the scientist. I'm just the 20-minute short cook, who sometimes, does not follow the instructions on the back the box.
We'd talked about the recipe. Not too many ingredients.
A cup of sugar
A bottle of 100% grape juice
& the wine yeast (which can be a hassle to find. Best get it online)
So we'd been discussing it for months off and on. It was a long winter. Other things came up. Finally, I took the plunge.
However, the boyfriend did not want to have a thing to do with making the wine. I had to do all that.
So anyhow, when you get to the YOGURT button on your instant pot, Hold it till it gets to LOW. Let the instant pot do its thing for 24 hours. It'll ding Yogurt the next day. You do the cycle all over again. Sure, the original recipe goes on for such a long paragraph about keeping this wine at 80 degrees. But its not like you can open the lid and check the temp..you might ruin the whole process.
Another important thing to the process is the VENT. Have it open to begin with. 6 to 8 hours, close it. Another 8 hours or so open it.
So have we drank it yet? Um, no. It has the last process to go through. The waiting period, up to 28 days.
The boyfriend, smelled it when we took off the lid (48 hours later) It smelled tangy. It was fizzy when we poured it back into the container and added the cup of grape juice we'd poured out and was waiting in the fridge. He said this was a good sign too.
He put some plastic over the lid which is not on tight and hid it in the back of our closet.
So..we are waiting. He's waiting for the dandelions to come out, too. He loves making dandelion wine..which will not be processed in the Instant Pot. Just the old-fashioned way.