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Does anyone make their own cheese?
I've just found, in the back of the cupboard "The Big Cheese making Kit" (Best before January 2014 ). https://www.bigcheesemakingkit.com/shop/...cotta-kit/
Its a kit for making Mozzarella & Ricotta, Most of the kit will be OK (butter muslin & thermometer) but I think the vegetarian rennet tablets may be past their best. Don't know what the shelf life of Citric Acid is but the Sea salt is probably usable. That's all there is in the box - apart from instructions.
The recipes need 8 pints of whole milk.
So I'm curious to know whether any of you make cheese and whether the effort is worthwhile - before I splash out on some rennet and milk!
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Never made cheese but that sounds fascinating. I wonder how much cheese you'd get from your 8pts. I reckon (purely opinion, not scientific) the citric acid would be fine. My citric must be at least that old and I'm not dead yet.
Rennet is so much easier to say than 'Enzymatic Microbial Coagulant' Go on give it a go.
Looking online, plant rennet comes from cardoons, artichokes or nettles. There's a challenge, homemade rennet too.
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According to the website each batch of milk makes 900g of cheese. Plus you have the whey to use for baking, or whatever.
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(29-04-2024, 05:52 PM)Veggie Wrote: According to the website each batch of milk makes 900g of cheese. Plus you have the whey to use for baking, or whatever.
That's rather a lot of Mozzerella or Ricotta to get through. But think of the cruciferous veg or nuts and seeds you could mix with it is there a cheese eating challenge in your book?
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I could chop it into chunks and vacuum seal it for later.
.............and NO there aren't any cheese eating challenges , unfortunately.
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I'm sure I have a similar kit at the back of the cupboard that someone bought me for Crimbo many moons ago? I don't like the idea that much that I can be bothered to hunt it out though!
I remember my Mam making cottage cheese in a bit of net curtain with milk that had went off!
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I tried making cheese once years ago when we had 2 goats. No idea how I made it now as didn't have a kit. I remember adding garlic to it to mask the taste a bit and was glad when my sister said she liked it and took it away. We did have a yoghurt maker that was an insulated plastic tub with 2 lids that processed overnight without using any electric which was always in use.
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Thanks Mark, I have one of those yogurt makers too. Maybe I should dig that out of the back of the cupboard and put the cheese kit back. I could use the muslin to strain the yogurt and, perhaps turn that into cream cheese.?
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(03-05-2024, 09:09 PM)Veggie Wrote: Thanks Mark, I have one of those yogurt makers too. Maybe I should dig that out of the back of the cupboard and put the cheese kit back. I could use the muslin to strain the yogurt and, perhaps turn that into cream cheese.?
That is how I made the cheese. The yoghurt maker came with a strainer. Tried a couple of times making cheese with it but nobody particularly liked it, including me so stuck to yoghurt which was often used in place of custard.
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I've made goat's cheese too, years ago. It turned out OK and tasted good, but the amount of cheese I got compared to the amount of milk it took made it seem not worth while. Your eight pints (4.5ltrs) of milk for 900g cheese is similar. You'll end up with 3+ litres of whey, that's a lot for baking.
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