Learn How to Make Cheese

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.

How to Make Cheese at Home: Beginner’s Guide

How to Make Cheese at Home: Beginner’s Guide

Have you ever wondered how to make cheese at home? Good news—you don’t need a barn, or a science degree. With just a few s...

Ingredients for Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Ingredients for Cheese Making

Learn about the ingredients used to make cheese at home. Most types of cheese only need two or three ingredients, milk, cu...

Equipment for Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Equipment for Cheese Making

Learn about the basic equipment for cheese making. You may even have some items in your kitchen, including a colander and ...

How to Make Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make Cheese

Learn how to make cheese at home and have fun from milk to yum. This guide will teach you about the cheese making process ...

Rennet for Cheese Making: The Ultimate Guide to Types, Techniques & Troubleshooting

Rennet for Cheese Making: The Ultimate Guide to Types, Techniques & Troubleshooting

Welcome to your go‑to guide on rennet—the magic enzyme that transforms fresh milk into the cheese you love. Whether you’re...

Draining Soft Cheese: Tips for Creamy, Delicious Results

Draining Soft Cheese: Tips for Creamy, Delicious Results

Draining is a crucial part of soft cheese making—it directly affects your cheese’s final texture, flavor, and shelf life. ...

How to Store and Age Cheese in Brine - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Store and Age Cheese in Brine

Get the best results when storing and aging Feta, Mozzarella, or other Mediterranean style cheese in a brine at home, we'l...

Learn About Cultures for Cheese Making

Learn About Cultures for Cheese Making

Some of the top questions we receive about cheese making have to do with cheese making cultures. Why are there so ma...

Finding Good Milk For Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Finding Good Milk For Cheese Making

When trying to find good milk for cheese making there are a few things to consider and sometimes it can be tricky...

The Evolution of Milk For Cheese Making

The Evolution of Milk For Cheese Making

Most milk comes from cows and we’d like to think they are all out on pastures eating grass. But are they? And if not how c...

A Guide to Cheese Tasting Terms - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

A Guide to Cheese Tasting Terms

Corky - Firm, hard, tough consistency, hard to break in fingers. When it breaks it does so in a woody manner. It is appare...

Ways to Use Whey

Ways to Use Whey

You try to buy the best milk you can for cheese making and when you're done you have a couple of pounds of great cheese, b...

Milk and How it Has Changed

Milk and How it Has Changed

Years ago, we started making cheese with milk, oh what a joy. Making and aging our own cheeses. One day things were not qu...

Cheese Molds and Pressing FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Molds and Pressing FAQ

Great tips and suggestions for using cheese molds and pressing cheese along with making and using a saturated brine soluti...

Curds and Whey FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Curds and Whey FAQ

Learn about different techniques and ways to work with curds, for both hard and soft cheese. After adding rennet, milk for...

Rennet for Cheese Making FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Rennet for Cheese Making FAQ

Learn about the different types of rennet, how to use them, and when to add rennet to milk when making cheese. In most che...

Cheese Making Cultures FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making Cultures FAQ

The first stage in cheese making is to ripen the milk, during this process, milk sugar is converted into lactic acid. Chee...

Beginner Cheese Maker FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beginner Cheese Maker FAQ

This guide has information on home cheese making for beginners, including general cheese making knowledge, information on ...

Milk and Cream FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Milk and Cream FAQ

This guide will help you learn about different types of milk, how it is processed, what to look for when selecting good mi...

30 Minute Mozzarella FAQ - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

30 Minute Mozzarella FAQ

A detailed guide for making 30 Minute Mozzarella Cheese at home, including information, tips and suggestions. Ready to hav...

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