A device for use in making a yoghurt product, the device including: a base station having a reservoir associated therewith for holding a yoghurt product pre-mixture a stirrer for stirring the yoghurt product pre-mixture a heating device a cooling device a temperature sensor module and a controller module operatively-connected to the temperature sensor module and configured for controlling the heating device and the cooling device to heat and cool the yoghurt product pre-mixture in the reservoir respectively, by reference to output signals of the temperature sensor received by the controller module indicative of the temperature of the yoghurt product pre-mixture in the reservoir, so as to form the yoghurt product.