I picked up a quart of Ronnybrook Farms plain yogurt at the Greenmarket on Wednesday: they're a nice local dairy, and the price on their whole milk yogurt was about what I pay at the supermarket for Dannon (and less than the supermarket price for Stonybrook Farms). I opened it this morning.
It's thinner than the Dannon (so is the Stonybrook Farms), and noticeably sharper/more sour. If I were making tzatziki, or using it in a curry, that might be an advantage (though the thinness would be a disadvantage for tzatziki). For breakfast, yogurt with fruit, I don't want that sharp edge. I'll probably finish this, but not buy it again.
Ronnybrook Farms also sells milk (including a full-fat chocolate milk), butter, ice cream, heavy cream, creme fraiche, and a few other things. When I wanted to try
papersky's suggestion that ice cream would taste better if I made it using cream without carrageenan, I went to Ronnybrook Farms. (I couldn't taste the difference, nor could
cattitude.) I haven't tried their butter, because I doubt it would taste twice as good to me as the Land o' Lakes we're getting at the supermarket, and it costs about twice as much. (We're following Consumer Reports's advice on brands of butter: there are differences in flavor, and we like the one they recommended.) Mostly, I stop by their stand and get a single serving of ice cream or a pint of chocolate milk, and eat or drink it while wandering through the market shopping for fruit and vegetables, or just wandering for its own sake.
It's thinner than the Dannon (so is the Stonybrook Farms), and noticeably sharper/more sour. If I were making tzatziki, or using it in a curry, that might be an advantage (though the thinness would be a disadvantage for tzatziki). For breakfast, yogurt with fruit, I don't want that sharp edge. I'll probably finish this, but not buy it again.
Ronnybrook Farms also sells milk (including a full-fat chocolate milk), butter, ice cream, heavy cream, creme fraiche, and a few other things. When I wanted to try
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