Fun Along The Whey

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been making cheese for years, you’re in the right place. Here, we cover the essentials of homemade cheese—from fresh cheese like mozzarella and ricotta to aged classics like cheddar and gouda. Browse our articles, or dive into a cheese making topic by scrolling below.

5 Fresh Spring Cheeses to Make at Home | Easy, Seasonal Cheese Recipes

5 Fresh Spring Cheeses to Make at Home | Easy, Seasonal Cheese Recipes

Spring: A Season of Renewal (and Cheese!) Spring is a season of beginnings. The days grow longer, the soil warms, and ever...

Good Cultured Cottage Cheese: Fresh and Healthy

Good Cultured Cottage Cheese: Fresh and Healthy

What Is Cultured Cottage Cheese? Cultured cottage cheese is a fresh, creamy cheese that’s naturally fermented using benefi...

Kristy Foster in Yorba Linda, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kristy Foster in Yorba Linda, California

Kristy Foster and ? If you live near Yorba Linda, CA (35 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles), you might notice dust...

Leon Graafland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Leon Graafland in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leon Graafland in the tulip fields, 20 miles outside Gouda. I grew up in the Netherlands; just outside Gouda in a small ...

Which Rennet is For You? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Which Rennet is For You?

Submitted by Kate Johnson and Kelly Liebrock of The Art of Cheese in Longmont, CO February 21, 2023 Rennet is an importan...

Pictures from the Winter Fancy Food Show, 2023 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Pictures from the Winter Fancy Food Show, 2023

Colleagues Ritz Guggiana (RG Consultants) and David Viviani (www.vivianimarketing.com) Ten years ago, I went to the Summ...

Tidbits - 075 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 075

Bloomy Blue: New Cambozola video from Mary Anne Farah. (click here) Participate in a Sleep Study: Get paid $1000 to e...

Rita den Otter in Duncan, BC, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Rita den Otter in Duncan, BC, Canada

Rita with her old Springer, Farley (14 1/2) and her pup, Abby (4 months) on a camping trip to Quadra Island off the east ...

Andres Schneiter in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Andres Schneiter in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

Andres Schneiter with his Raclette If you’re on our mailing list at cheesemaking.com, you’re familiar with the Monday Mo...

Celso David Viviani in San Francisco, California - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Celso David Viviani in San Francisco, California

David Viviani at a reception for President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel. He was honored...

Tidbits - 074 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 074

Fun Video! Do not visit London without watching this first. (click here) Butter Candles: Melting over bread! (click he...

Kylie Carnegie in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Kylie Carnegie in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kylie with Rémy, her 18 month old Schipperke. Kylie is just starting her cheesemaking adventure, thanks to the gift of a...

Tidbits - 073 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 073

Where Did Cheese Really Come From? Light and fun – the perfect video for high school students (and those of us who gener...

Fat Sheep Farm in Hartland, Vermont - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Fat Sheep Farm in Hartland, Vermont

Todd Heyman and Suzy Kaplan of Fat Sheep Farm When Suzy Kaplan & Todd Heyman decided to get married, 6 & 1/2 yea...

Marybeth Bullington's Orange-Walnut Holiday Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Marybeth Bullington's Orange-Walnut Holiday Cheese

Marybeth’s fabulous holiday cheese. Good news! It’s not too late to make cheese for the holiday season. Caerphilly is o...

Gift Ideas for Cheesemakers and Cheese Lovers - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Gift Ideas for Cheesemakers and Cheese Lovers

Pin, $2, teepublic.com The giving season is coming up! It’s a little early but we think it’s a good idea to plan ahead ...

Cheesemaking Classes in the U.S. (Current) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheesemaking Classes in the U.S. (Current)

Sarah Carroll at her Cheesemaking 101 workshop at New England Cheesemaking Supply Co. We first made this list in 2011 a...

Tidbits - 072

Results are In: List of winners of 2022 American Cheese Society Competition.  Making Burrata: This short video shows the ...

Yoel Blumberger:  On the Role of Cheese in Israel - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger: On the Role of Cheese in Israel

Yoel Blumberger making Camembert Yoel lives in Tel Aviv where he belongs to a group of cheesemakers who travel around th...

Grant Fritch in Lansing (Okemos), Michigan - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Grant Fritch in Lansing (Okemos), Michigan

Grant Fritch It’s always a surprise when we delve into a cheesemaker’s life and discover talent we could not have imagin...

Tidbits - 071 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tidbits - 071

Potato and Cheese Pizza Video: Made on stovetop – no oven required. (click here) Two new videos showing cheese being ma...

Yoel Blumberger: Camembert de Normandie AOP and the Flocculation Point Method - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger: Camembert de Normandie AOP and the Flocculation Point Method

Picture by Yoel Blumberger. Sources: freeworldmaps and Dairy Products of France In this article, Yoel Blumberger (a h...

Ivy Netzel in Gourley Township, Michigan - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ivy Netzel in Gourley Township, Michigan

Ivy Netzel, making kefir Ivy’s Story I live in a quiet little hamlet called Jam Dam (unincorporated Gourley Township) on...

Yoel Blumberger: Cheesemaking Group in Israel and a Recipe for Castelmagno - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger: Cheesemaking Group in Israel and a Recipe for Castelmagno

Part of the group (with Castelmagno cheese) in front of a dairy high in the Italian Alps. Yoel is the 4th in (from right ...

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