10 Tips for Aging Your Natural Rind Cheeses
“Little Darling Tomme” from DiBruno Bros. Or, as the song might go, “We’re just a flippin and a rubbin…” Natural rinds – that sounds so easy – just you and your cheese growing old together with n...
Can You Age Your Cheese in Clay?!
OK, you can call me crazy but I’m serious. And I don’t know the answer. I’m just hoping one of you will. (If anyone is doing it successfuly, I will certainly try it.) This all began with a thread...
Huntsman is a British cheese made by combining Double Gloucester with Stilton. When you first look at this cheese, you wonder-how can they possibly age a mold-ripened cheese inside a semi-hard ch...
4 Experts Share Their Best Tips for Making Cheese
Recently, we couldn’t stop thinking about a question that came in a while ago, “What is your single best tip for making cheese?” After sending a reply, we realized, there may be more than one answe...
Roland Wilk in North York, Ontario, Canada
Roland Wilk Roland Wilk falls into our “proof that cheese makers are the most interesting people” category. When he started making cheese, he designed and built his own mechanical stirrer...
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...
Gift Idea #4 - Goat Milk Cheddar
This is the fourth in a series of gift ideas for the upcoming holidays. There’s still plenty of time to make this cheese and give it to a lucky friend. We know SO many goat owners who haven’t fou...
There are as many recipes for making cheese without cultures on the Web as there are with cultures. Alternative starting agents include lemon juice (Panir & Lemon Cheese), vinegar (Queso Blan...
Maggie Parkinson in Renton, Washington
This is not an ad! Maggie’s book is currently out of print. The art of cheese making is only one many creative endeavors for Maggie Parkinson (stage name- Carylton Cooper). She has bee...
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...
Philippines - Part 1: Making Rennet
Recently, we were happy to receive pictures and lots of information about making cheese in the province of Iloilo, Philippines from a courageous woman who is trying to help her inlaws make bett...
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...
For desserts – yes. For cheese – no. There are a lot of cheese making websites where Junket tablets are routinely used in place of rennet. (The best known is probably David P. Fankhauser, PhD’s s...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 cheese, particularly the processed kind, are used to the orange color. This i...
Cheese Making Videos at YouTube
A Survey & Recommendations There are zillions of cheese-related videos. My intention was to find a few for you to use. Hopefully, you can look at the list below, find a cheese you would like ...
He retired, moved to Colorado and now he’s making his own cheese. It’s play time now for Joe Heyen. He earned it! Joe taught elementary school for 33 years in the western suburbs of Chicago. He ...
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 loaded with probiotic bacteria and yeasts that you will want to give them to...
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 for folks to recommend a good source for kefir grains. We had quite a few...
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