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How to Make Special Containers for Aging Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make Special Containers for Aging Cheese

Yoel with his pottery container Creating Small Sub-Environments for Cheese Aging By Yoel Blumberger* 1. Introduction – ...

How to Make a Peg Mill by Yoel Blumberger - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make a Peg Mill by Yoel Blumberger

Yoel Blumberger with a 7 pound Castelmagno cheese he made and the peg mill he used when he made it. We first met Yoel in...

Yoel Blumberger's Humidity Control System - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel Blumberger's Humidity Control System

Yoel Blumberger How to create and maintain the right humidity for your cheese while it’s aging… This is a very importan...

Yoel's DIY Cheese Drying Box - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Yoel's DIY Cheese Drying Box

Lingotto cheese in the drying box. Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel created this box for drying cheese and was kind e...

100 Wheys to Make Yogurt in Your Instant Pot - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

100 Wheys to Make Yogurt in Your Instant Pot

There are as many ways to make yogurt as there are stars in the sky! We have 2 great recipes (beginner and intermediate) ...

Donna Sprankle: Making Mozzarella in Her Instant Pot - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Donna Sprankle: Making Mozzarella in Her Instant Pot

Well, this is something new! We were intrigued when we got this note from Donna Sprankle in Ballston Spa, New York: Just...

Magic Wrap! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Magic Wrap!

Been to Italy lately? If you have been, you probably bought a piece of cheese to take back to your hotel. If youre explor...

Eric Olson's Amazing Make-Room Updated - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Eric Olson's Amazing Make-Room Updated

This is a follow through to an article we posted a year ago – Eric Olson’s Amazing Home Set-Up. At that time, Eric Olson ...

Modifying Our "Off the Wall" Press Plans - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Modifying Our "Off the Wall" Press Plans

Where else but at our company (New England Cheesemaking Supply Co.) can you buy a press for $4.95? Yes, it’s true that yo...

Calculating Weights for the Dutch Style Press - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Calculating Weights for the Dutch Style Press

As you may already know, we sell several different kinds of presses, including the Dutch Style Press (E30) (shown below) a...

Tatiana's Refrigerator "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tatiana's Refrigerator "Cave"

In 2015, we interviewed Tatiana Thomas who lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia – (click here). Tatiana is now selling her Cam...

How to Make an Inexpensive Cheese Cave - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make an Inexpensive Cheese Cave

Bob Albers My Cheese Cave By Bob Albers* Cheese caves are wonderful things. Especially when you consider the wonderful t...

Using a Coolbot in Your Cheese Cave - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using a Coolbot in Your Cheese Cave

Have you given any thought to making a walk-in cheese cave? It’s easier than you might think … Many home cheese makers u...

Steve Benner in Doylestown, Pennsylvania - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Steve Benner in Doylestown, Pennsylvania

We first met Steve when he sent us a couple of pictures of his modified equipment with this note: What a great hobby! I ...

Eric Olson's Amazing Home Set-Up - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Eric Olson's Amazing Home Set-Up

Eric Olson’s father (Richard) was a cheese maker during a time in our country’s history when small cheese factories were ...

A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Guide to DIY Cheese Boards

The obvious gift for cheese lovers is, you guessed it, cheese. But, this year, we thought you might want to really impres...

Bob's Homemade Curd Cutter - Part 2 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bob's Homemade Curd Cutter - Part 2

After Bob sent us his first post – Bob’s Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter, he decided to make some improvements. Start with...

Tin Can Method for Smoking Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Tin Can Method for Smoking Cheese

Claude Garneau’s smoker in a 28 oz tomato can In 2010, we did an article about smoking cheese (click here) which has dir...

Bob's Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Bob's Homemade Horizontal Curd Cutter

Bob Albers in Mandeville, Louisiana has been learning to make cheese since he retired from his career as an electronics en...

Making a Drying Box - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making a Drying Box

There is almost always a period of time when you dry out your cheese before aging it. The time varies and depends on the...

Modifying Molds for Easier Handling - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Modifying Molds for Easier Handling

Terrence Dinnan Terrence Dinnan, a cheese maker in Charlotte, Vermont, sent us this great idea in a review he wrote for ...

Sanitizing 10 Easy Ways for Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Sanitizing 10 Easy Ways for Cheese Making

Your kitchen is unique, so your choice of how to sanitize your tools is your own. Some folks can get away with very littl...

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Controlling Moisture in the "Cave"

Pedro and his Saanen, Rosie The issue is humidity. You can measure it with hygrometers but controlling it is another ma...

Rebecca Brill in Maugansville, MD - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Rebecca Brill in Maugansville, MD

Rebecca with her husband-Matthew, her son-Oliver and her daughter-Sinclair We first got to know Rebecca when she shared ...

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