How to Make Ricotta with Your Sous Vide Circulator
The sous vide method has taken the cheese making world by storm! (In case you aren’t familiar with it, sous vide is the process of cooking food in plastic bags which are submerged in hot water.) ...
How to Add Humidity to Your Room Sized "Cave"
Yes, we do sell hygrometers for measuring humidity, but adding humidity is another story. For years, many of us have been placing wet paper towels in our refrigerators, but maintaining a constant ...
Jim Price in Stevenson, Washington
Jim Price with his wine cooler “cave.” I first met Jim via e-mail when he entered our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest last fall. I read his story (below) and I wanted to learn more about him and h...
Steve Murtaugh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Steve Murtaugh with his main Maoi – an Eastern Island Tiki Steve Murtaugh is a master home cheese maker. He sells his cheese at Farmer’s Markets in the Pittsburgh area. This coming sum...
Controlling Humidity in Your Cheese "Cave"
Steve (Bear) Murtaugh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A couple of months ago, I mentioned in an e-mail to Steve Murtaugh that I think controlling humidity is the biggest challenge for home chees...
Making a Horizontal Curd Cutter
Submitted by Jerry Pittman of Castle Rock, Washington Cheese makers really are the most interesting people in the world! They constantly come up with better ways of doing things and then share th...
How to Use Ripening Boxes with Ian Treuer
Ian cleaning the rind of an “El Torro” (Chipotle rubbed Montasio) at Smoky Valley Artisan Cheese Ian Treuer from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) has so many irons in the cheese fire that it’s h...
David Dawson in Manitoba, Canada
With his Cheddars – 3½ and 1 pound He’s the definition of a “do-it-yourselfer!” You could say that everyone who makes cheese is a “do-it-yourselfer” and you would certainly be correct. B...
Lucinda McGinty of Jefferson County, NY
She never took a class, but she sure knows what she’s doing! Lucinda contacted us originally to show us a few of her pictures and to ask a question about her Jarlsberg. We forwarded her questio...
Bandage Wrapping with Rashel Harris
She demonstrates this traditional method in both pictures and a video This is our first blog article about bandage wrapping cheese, but it’s not our first article about Rashel. In fact, she was ou...
Goat's Milk Ricotta from Iron Oak Farm
And they use our recipe!!! Jennifer and Zach Sartell (This couple is just toooo cute!) Why are cheese makers always so nice? It really is amazing. For example, the Sartells from Fenton,...
We have lots of information on our website and in other blog articles about waxing your own (homemade) cheese for aging, but many folks buy our wax to preserve their store bought cheese, as well. ...
Denis Barnard in Delta Junction, Alaska
Making cheese in a frozen tundra Denis Barnard and his wife, Angie live 70 miles south of the community of North Pole, Alaska. Denis began making cheese in the summer of 2010, just after they mov...
Jon with his cat, Koba This takes your dorm sized refrigerator to a whole new level! As you may know, we sell a refrigerator thermostat which enables you to convert your refrigerator or fr...
Booker Dechert in Earlton, New York
Booker with Annie, born last May Did we mention that he’s 13?! He raises his own goats, milks them every day, and makes cheese. We first heard about Booker from his mother, Larissa: I ha...
The wire on the right is the probe which goes to the thermostat (next picture). Clyde Poser in Buckley, Washington earned his “do-it-yourselfer” honors by making his own temperature controlled ch...
Using Vacuum Sealers to Age Your Cheese?
Photo courtesy of Tara Tarbet at Welcome Home Farm It’s all about the taste! If the only reason you aren’t making a waxed cheese is because of the waxing process, go ahead and buy that va...
PJ and Adam at their daughter’s wedding in July It isn’t hard to find a cool place to age your cheese in Alaska! PJ first wrote to us when we asked our Moosletter readers for their recomme...
Using a pH Meter for Cheese Making
Are you ready? All around the world and for thousands of years, folks have made their own cheese without pH testers. Yet, many cheese makers in the forums and blogs recommend them and some even ...
Using Hygrometers to Measure Humidity
When it comes to aging your cheese, one of the most useful devices to have is a hygrometer (to measure humidity) or a thermo-hygrometer (to measure both humidity and temperature). These devices ar...
Making Our Cheese Press aka A Labor of Love
Jamie Eckley (The Cheese King) Gets it Done! There are over 10 different vendors involved in the production of our cheese press (E28) and Jamie knows them all. That’s because he found all of them...
101 Ways to Drain Your Cheese!
Not really, but here are a few ideas . . . Ricki (the Cheese Queen) (our owner and supreme ruler) came up with this one recently at one of her workshops. (She has a lot of these fabulous furnitur...
Setting Up a Cheese Making Room
You may already know Noah and Sue Goddard from their farm in Lecompton, Kansas – GODDARD FARM PUREBRED NUBIAN DAIRY GOATS and from their forum about raising goats and making cheese. Their BASIC CH...
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