Yogurt pods are just powdered milk and bacteria without a container

The Yomee is a new gadget on Kickstarter designed to make you yogurt. It's essentially an automated milk heating and cooling system that also happens to rely on pods. Pods! As you can always expect from a proprietary pod-related gadget, the device relies on individual yogurt culture packs that you can only buy from Yomee. The pods themselves don't have a barcode or even wrapping. They're just dusty compressed milk and yogurt culture in the shape of a pod.

You can buy yogurt culture on the internet, but it comes as a straight powder. Because the culture has to be added at a specific temperature, Yomee says the pod form factor is important. The machine knows to release the pod at the right time. If you just poured powder into the machine,...

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