This is the bag to get to strain yogurt
Forget anything you have read about using cheesecloth or coffee filter to strain yogurt into Greek yogurt. This is the bag you need. The dimensions may appear to be too large, but in use, this just the right size for one gallon of yogurt.Two tips: First turn the bag inside out so that the sewed seams are to the outside. This will make cleaning a lot easier. Second, wet the bag with water. This will help in the draining.Then drape this bag over a colander and place it over a suitable pot to catch the whey.Pour your yogurt in and let it drain.The 75 micron holes make draining yogurt easy and fool-proof. The whey comes out practically clear so there is no wasted yogurt. Draining yogurt about 11-12 hours makes for a nice consistency. I once accidentally left one batch draining for over 24 hours. I thought I would have turned my yogurt into cream cheese, but everything came out great.When the drain time is over, just lift the full bag and dump it into a large bowel. The yogurt simply falls out. Keeping the seams on the outside prevents any thing sticking. A few whips with a whisk and the yogurt is done.Cleaning these bags is a snap. The large size does make for a cumbersome clean up but it is really quite easy. Turn the bag inside out so that the seams are inside and the side that was touching the yogurt is on the outside. Simply rinse the bag with your hand inside. It really rinses out well. The yogurt left-overs really do slide off the bag material. Clean up takes about three minutes. Then just hang the bag up and it will dry quickly.I was struggling with and ruined several yogurt batches until I tried this bag. Don't buy a smaller bag like the 12x12. It was much more cumbersome to use as it just barely held one gallon. This this larger one and you wont' have any worries about anything spilling.Package came with two but honestly, I don't see this bag wearing out any time soon. Three batches of yogurt later and the bag does not have a blemish. .Seller shipped fast and the bags arrived clean and undamaged.I may not need to buy any replacements for a while, but if I do need a replacement, I will gladly order from the same supplier.
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Dave in VA
November 27, 2023
Works as Advertised
I have been using these bags for cold brew coffee and to drain home-made yogurt for Greek yogurt for a few weeks now. The bags seem to provide better extraction than I have just letting the coffee sit on the bottom of the container or in a metal filter. I believe there are two factors for that, one, the bag provides more surface area for the water to make contact, and, two, I am able to suspend the bag in the water. Just as with the metal filter, the bag does leave a bit of fine silt in the bottom of the container, but I have an extra-fine mesh strainer to remove that, so it these bags work very well for cold brew coffee. The bags are very strong, based on my twisting and squeezing the bags to remove the liquid from the coffee grounds and the whey from the yogurt. They work very well at straining the whey and leaving the solids.One bit of advice from a previous review that I read, which is a good idea, turn the bag inside out, so that the sewn seams are on the outside and the tight, closed seam is on the inside. That makes removing all the coffee grounds much easier. The same is true for the yogurt, so it doesn't get stuck in all the sewing on the seams.For yogurt it washes completely clean. For the cold brew coffee, there is some staining, but using a baking soda solution removes most of the staining, if that is an issue for you. As there are a number of bags in the package, I have been using one for yogurt and another for the coffee, so the staining isn't an issue for me.Overall I believe the bags are worth the price.
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Roland Brindamour
August 10, 2025
Just what I wanted
Works just fine thanks for the chance to get to used it
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RufusTFirefly
November 14, 2022
Good mesh bags
These mesh bags appear to be high quality although I have not used them yet. They are also a good size for small batch fruit wines i plan to make and are a reasonable price when compared to other similar bags.
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Excellent for large-batch cold brew!
We love and drink A LOT of cold brew, so I've rigged up a large-batch system making 3 gallons at a time (using a 3-min hot bloom method). These bags are perfect for the process. They stand up well to the initial heat, empty out and clean easily, and result in the least amount of residual grounds compared with every other metal or bag filter that I've previously tried. I could not be happier with the results!
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Strains Kava excellently!
Bought this for straining Kava. It works phenomenally! Grant it, there's a very, very small portion of powder at the bottom bowl after straining, but that's normal. That powder must have been so fine it was below 75 microns. Over all this strained 99.99% of the Kava, no joke!Was really simple to clean, too. I just let the kava inside dry, then flicked it into the garbage and sprayed it with the faucet hose.
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geezerdly
January 28, 2018
A very sturdy and useful product for some home brewers
These bags to a very decent job as a bag to mash the grain in for homebrewing. The fine mesh has improved the clarity of my brews. They seem to be very sturdy and well-made. One caveat – I use a shade tree mechanic style 6-gallon bucket lined with a bag as a mash tun and the bags are a bit skimpy in diameter to fit. There isn't much stretch to this material so it takes a bit of persuasion to fit the bags over the bucket rim. They have loosened a bit after a few uses, though. I highly recommend them in all other respects.
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