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 – Aging In the cheese making process, the aging stage is quite calm, compared ...
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 2019, when he sent us his directions for making a cheese drying box (Yoel’...
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 important subject for cheesemakers and we have tried to give you as much informatio...
Lingotto cheese in the drying box. Yoel Blumberger in Tel Aviv, Israel created this box for drying cheese and was kind enough to send us the directions. We will be interviewing Yoel for the June...
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) by Jim Wallace in our recipe section at cheesemaking.com. They cover makin...
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 wanted to send a thank you. Made my 1 st batch of mozzarella (using my in...
Been to Italy lately? If you have been, you probably bought a piece of cheese to take back to your hotel. Odds are good that your cheese was carefully wrapped in the best possible wrap, used in 80...
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 was using his skills in welding stainless steel to make and modify the equi...
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 you have to make it yourself, but we’ve done the hard part for you! Our Off ...
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) and the Off the Wall Press Plans (OWP). Both of them come with the weight ...
In 2015, we interviewed Tatiana Thomas who lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia – (click here). Tatiana is now selling her Camembert and she is in the process of organizing a “Mold Cheese Festival” whi...
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 things they contain and the wonderful things we get out of them. If you live...
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 use refrigerators and wine coolers to age their cheese. These are great, bu...
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 just want to thank you for showing and supplying the best information and s...
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 closing. He was a hard-working, self-sufficient Wisconsin man who taught h...
The obvious gift for cheese lovers is, you guessed it, cheese. But, this year, we thought you might want to really impress your friends and family by gifting your homemade cheese on a handmade che...
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 the first article and you will find that the two of them work nicely toget...
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 directions for making a cold smoker. A lot has changed since we posted that a...
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 engineer. (We interviewed him in August – click here.) He has shared his kn...
There is almost always a period of time when you dry out your cheese before aging it. The time varies and depends on the temperature and humidity – it might be from one day to a week. It’s an im...
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 our Bleu Cheese Mold (M111). He had purchased the mold to make brie. Why, ...
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 little effort while others have to be very careful. It’s one of those things y...
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 matter. There are many ways to do it and we have posted several articles abo...
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 with us her method for making ricotta with a sous vide circulator (click he...
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