Cuisipro Donvier Electronic Yogurt Maker

This yogurt maker (as well as virtually every other yogurt maker I've seen) is useless. The hard steps in making yogurt are boiling the milk and waiting for it to cool down. From there on, the only thing you have to do is add the starter yogurt culture and keep the resulting milk mixture warm for a few hours. To do that, you can just put the pot of milk under a lightbulb and that does the trick, or stick it in the oven and turn on the oven light or the pilot light. It is only this last step -- keeping the milk mixture warm -- that this machine helps with, and you don't even need it for that. Waste of money; if you want to make yogurt, get yourself a nice non-stick pot for boiling the milk instead, that'll be much more useful than this yogurt maker.

I've used it three times now in the past month and I think it's pretty fabulous.

PROs:
The packaging was pretty when it came, turquoise and white box with french and english on it.
They include extra lids which was thoughtful because I ended up needing one later.
The cups are a good serving size and not too big or small.
The machine itself doesn't take much space.
The instruction manual is short, simple and easy to follow (had english and french translations). I didn't even need instructions by the third time making yogurt.
The yogurt tastes exactly like the yogurt starter I used. It actually works!

CONs:
The caps are hard to open, but I find it easy enough by opening the tab area.
The first batch you make will not be perfect; but mine wasn't because I used just 2% milk and culture. The second try, using whole milk and Stonyfield Organic Plain Whole Milk Yogurt (as starter), was perfectly delicious.
People think that glass is better, but glass breaks too easily and plastic lasts longer.
The thermometer included is useless, so I just used a regular kitchen one.
The temperature in the maker apparently isn't ideally consistent, but it hasn't affected the quality of the yogurt so far.

Definitely a good buy. I haven't used this long enough to judge the long-term worth of this yogurt maker, but I like it so far and will review it again maybe at the end of the year. We'll see if it's still as good then.

This little machine is great and easy to use!! I like it very much; my only wish would be that the plastic tops to the cups were easier to pop off once I am ready to eat the yogurt.

This is the only yogurt maker I've ever used, and in the 3 years I've had it, I almost always get great yogurt, but you should know that this is not temperature controlled. That means that in the summer when the temperature in the kitchen is 75 deg F or higher, the middle four cups finish hours ahead of the outer 4 cups. I also once used cold milk instead of heating it up to the proper temperature first. The yogurt took an extra 10 hours that time. I wouldn't be surprised if this is normal for most yogurt makers.

I love this yogurt-maker. It's a breeze to use, and the yogurt is wonderful. One complaint: some (not all) of the plastic lids are almost impossible to remove from the jars without using a prying tool. I use an old-fashioned bottle opener. This operation is painful for hands that are showing signs of arthritis.