Uses for yogurt drainings?

[Farmin' with Baby]

I make raw goat yogurt from our goat milk. It's usually pretty runny and I'm experimenting with draining it so I can get something closer to Greek style yogurt. (...Fage...hmmmm.) Just wondering if I'm losing a lot of nutrients/acidophuls in the drainings and if I can use them usefully elsewhere. Like in cooking morning oatmeal? But wouldn't that kill the cultures anyway?

[cristeen]

That's whey... use it to soak grains, in lacto-ferments, add it to smoothies, etc.

[Farmin' with Baby]

Yeah, I sort of figured that out as I was watching my yogurt drain tonight. No different than cheese.

Thanks for the answer to the needless question!

[Magelet]

does goat whey taste.... goaty? We made raw farmer's cheese from some raw goat milk (which if it's good when I see you next, I'll try to remember to bring you some, cristeen), and thus have buttermilk goat's milk whey.

I really don't want my oatmeal or anything else tasting goaty, but I don't want the whey to go bad.

[cristeen]

I'll take some of the whey! I was contemplating having to make some for the LO's formula.

[Koalamom]

My goats milk yogurt used to be runny but them I switched my culture to the one from culturesforhealth.com. I have the villi starter and now it is really thick.