Easy Homemade Yogurt - Background

This is not necessarily a story, more of a background providing information on my journey to making homemade yogurt.  Everyone in my family eats yogurt with breakfast every single morning – everyone, that is, except me.  I hate yogurt passionately, but in the interest of nurturing my family and saving money I have pursued learning to make it from time to time.

The instructions I found were very confusing.  Some said to