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.

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...

Thistle Rennet: Exciting New Product! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Thistle Rennet: Exciting New Product!

When we first posted the article about Making Rennet from Fig Sap, we had many inquiries in the comments section about mak...

Aroma B Culture for Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Aroma B Culture for Cheese Making

There are a lot of cultures to choose from, aren’t there? It’s actually somewhat intimidating. Fortunately, cheese is ve...

Using Tartaric Acid in Cheese Making & Much More! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Tartaric Acid in Cheese Making & Much More!

Tartaric acid is naturally found in many fruits, including the tamarind, from which our product (C19) is derived. Because...

Calcium Chloride for Home Cheese Making - Is it Necessary? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Calcium Chloride for Home Cheese Making - Is it Necessary?

  Calcium Chloride (C14) from cheesemaking.com Many of the questions we get from cheese makers involve issues related to ...

More About Fig Sap "Rennet" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

More About Fig Sap "Rennet"

Photo courtesy of All Remedies 4 years ago, I posted an article I thought was whey out in left field – Making Rennet Fr...

Why Use Starter Cultures? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Why Use Starter Cultures?

There are as many recipes for making cheese without cultures on the Web as there are with cultures. While many home chees...

Philippines - Part 1:  Making Rennet - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Philippines - Part 1: Making Rennet

Recently, we were happy to receive pictures and lots of information about making cheese in the province of Iloilo, Phi...

Why Not Junket? - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Why Not Junket?

For desserts – yes. For cheese – no. There are a lot of cheese making websites where Junket tablets are routinely used in...

Cheese Coloring - Always an Option - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Coloring - Always an Option

Why add color to cheese Sometimes you just want a little color in your cheese. Many folks who grew up on store-bought ch...

Using Kefir Grains and Shipping Them to Friends (Part 3 of 3) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Kefir Grains and Shipping Them to Friends (Part 3 of 3)

What do I do with all these grains?! Indeed, they do grow and grow and grow… However, the good news is that they are so l...

Growing Kefir Grains (Part 2 of 3) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Growing Kefir Grains (Part 2 of 3)

The Second in a Three Part Series about Kefir Grains This series started with a request we put in the November Moosletter...

Ordering Kefir Grains (Part 1 of 3) - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ordering Kefir Grains (Part 1 of 3)

The First in a 3 Part Series about Kefir Grains This started with a request we put in the November Moosletter for folks ...

Using Ash On Your Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Ash On Your Cheese

Using ash in your cheese and in your wedding cake… When we brought out the cake at Ricki and Jamie’s wedding, there were ...

Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Rennet From Fig Sap?!!

I wrote this last month, so you can chalk it up to March Madness! We get kind of crazy around here at the end of a long, ...

Questions and Answers About Making Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Questions and Answers About Making Yogurt

Jim Wallace We are determined to help you! One of the differences between our business and others is Ricki’s dedi...

Questions and Answers About Cultures - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Questions and Answers About Cultures

Getting your cheese off to a good and consistent start This is the second in a series of sample questions that folks have...

Questions About Milk - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Questions About Milk

You can’t make cheese without milk! We have a HELP section on our website with many questions answered about all ph...

About Lipase - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

About Lipase

Making Friends With Those Little Enzymes “The biology of cheese accurately reflects the biology of nature. Its reactions...

Attention Raw Foodies! - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Attention Raw Foodies!

Raw Milk and Vegetable Rennet = Raw Cheese Recently, in one of our small staff meetings, we began discussing the virtu...

Using Sheep's Milk to Make Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Sheep's Milk to Make Cheese

A few months ago, we received this note from a customer: I was wondering if you might post on your “recipes wanted” secti...

Homogenizing Milk - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Homogenizing Milk

How is Milk Homogenized? There are 2 stages: 1) In most cases, the milk is forced through a narrow opening at very high ...

Organic Milk Often Comes From "Big Dairy" - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Organic Milk Often Comes From "Big Dairy"

We totally support the concept of organic agriculture. Organic milk, by regulation, is supposed to come from cows that ha...

Probiotics in Yogurt - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Probiotics in Yogurt

How much is enough? Let’s face it- we’re not all scientists. Probiotics is all about strains of bacteria. There is a ...

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