I followed this recipe to make yogurt for the first time. I did the boil setting and then I had to put it on sauté for like 5 minutes to get it up to the full temp. And idk which step did it, but when I was mixing the yogurt starter in I could feel like there was a burnt layer at the bottom.

Once it was done I plopped the yogurt out and that was fine but, there was a thin layer of yogurt on the burnt stuff. I made the mistake of scooping that into the rest of my yogurt without tasting. It was a weird chunky texture and almost a bitter flavor from the burnt stuff. Honestly not terrible, it was just more cheesy than yogurty and way different than the rest of the batch. So I tried to scoop it back out. 💀

I have a niggling feeing I did this to myself with the sauté step, but I’m not sure. Anyone have this happen to them before or know how to prevent? Stirring during sauté?