Having absolutely clean equipment is essential to successful cheesemaking. If your equipment is not clean, it may contaminate your next batch of cheese. Cheese is alive (it is made up…
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Waxing your cheese can keep your hard cheeses a lot moisture in the end. Applying wax can also help form a protective coating to inhibit bacteria and prevent cheese from…
If you are interested in home cheesemaking then I have narrowed down to the top 24 most essential equipment. I believe that most of the items listed on this page…
Brining is mostly used on cheeses that have short aging period. Certain cheeses, like feta and Gouda, are not salted before pressing. Instead they are place into a brine bath…
Whey is filled with ton of nutrients for added health benefits. It is quite common to see professional athletes use whey to fuel their bodies after an intense workout. Below…
Cheesemaking is essentially transforming milk into cheese through a series of steps that control its fermentation process. Cheesemaking Step # 1. Warm the Milk Warming the milk is the first…
Humans made cheese long before we understood science. Fortunately, our understanding of science has come a long way since. Essentially, cheesemaking is the same back then and now: milk is…
Affinage is the final stage of the cheesemaking process after: milking curdling molding draining salting This final step is a crucial one because it gives the cheese its color, rind,…
The amount of milk required to make cheese varies depending on these factors: The type of cheese you are making. The type of animal’s milk you are using. Read: 4…
Rennet consists of enzymes that enables milk to coagulate more quickly (turning milk into curds). It takes only a tiny amount of rennet to coagulate a batch of cheese. You…