Learn How to Make Cheese

Whether you're new to cheese making or a seasoned pro, we've got you covered with step-by-step cheese making guides, tips, and FAQs. Ready to be inspired? Visit Fun Along the Whey for stories, recipes, and adventures from fellow cheese makers.

Creme Fraiche Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Creme Fraiche Recipe

Creme Fraiche is one of those dairy delights that you try to eat just a little of but once you taste that first mouthful y...

Clotted Cream Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Clotted Cream Recipe

This is a specialty of Devon and Cornwall in Southern England. It is made from rich cows milk of the Devon cattle. Clotted...

Chevron - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Chevron

I am not quite sure of the spelling of this cheese but this recipe for an old world Lebanese cheese was given to me by Sus...

Butter in a Bowl Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Butter in a Bowl Recipe

Let 1 quart of heavy cream sit overnight to ripen in a large earthenware bowl. The bowl should be no more than half full. ...

Beyaz Peynir Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Beyaz Peynir Recipe

Beyaz Peynir is a wet semisoft white cheese in own brine, has a typical salty-sour taste with a fine flavor. It should be ...

Basket Cheese Making Recipe - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Basket Cheese Making Recipe

Handed down by word of mouth to Rosanne Coreano of NY, this recipe produces a rather mild cheese. It is eaten either by it...

Cheese Makers Traveling Through France - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Makers Traveling Through France

In the Fall of 2002, eleven artisin cheesemakers and serious cheese lovers embarked on a 9 day adventure to explore the st...

French Alpine Cheese Making - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

French Alpine Cheese Making

Alpine cheeses were traditionally made in remote regions of the mountains in eastern France, where large collective herds ...

Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein

These are the real cheese makers, the four legged ones that provide that fabulous milk we use. No, not Paul and Amy, we ar...

Keith Brinch - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Keith Brinch

Greetings from New Zealand. I was born in Cape Town, South Africa in July 1951, so that makes me an 'old bugger.’ I am tra...

Reverand Yoginatha Swami - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Reverand Yoginatha Swami

Reverand Yoginatha Swami from Kauai Hindu Monastery. The monastery web site is a wonderful place to watch the progress as ...

Jorge "Mariano" Gonzalez - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jorge "Mariano" Gonzalez

A visit with Mariano to see how he makes that famous bandaged cheddar. After meeting at the American Cheese Society conven...

John and Janine Putnam - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

John and Janine Putnam

John & Janine Putnam from Thistle Hill Farm in North Pomfret VT. Producing 'Tarentaise' Vermont Alpine Cheese. An aged...

Carol and Christina Lively - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Carol and Christina Lively

Carol Lively and her daughter Christina Lively Spring Farm Rowe MA. True Home/Farmstead cheese making on a small scale. Th...

Favorite Cheese Links - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Favorite Cheese Links

Here are a few of our favorite cheese links from around the web. If you would like to share one, please send it our whey.

Cheesy Humor - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheesy Humor

Cheesy humor to brighten up your day. These tidbits are from books, around the web and fellow cheese makers.

How to Select Cheese Wrap - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Select Cheese Wrap

This guide will help you select the the right type of cheese wrap and figure out which size wrap will fit your cheese. We ...

How to Make a Cheese Cave - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Make a Cheese Cave

Learn how to make a cheese cave right at home. If you want your cheese to ripen properly you have to make them a good home...

How to Wax Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Wax Cheese

Waxing cheese will help prepare it for the aging process. This guide will walk you through the waxing process and provide ...

Using Large Culture Packs - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Using Large Culture Packs

Large packets of starter culture offer a broader choice in cultures, than small culture packs, but are intended for large ...

Testing Acidity Development - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Testing Acidity Development

When converting the lactose in milk to lactic acid, using starter cultures, there is no visible way to determine the rate ...

Making and Using Salt Brine - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making and Using Salt Brine

The primary reason for salting cheese, is to slow down, or stop, the bacteria process converting lactose to lactic acid. D...

How to Bandage Wrap Cheddar - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

How to Bandage Wrap Cheddar

This easy to follow guide will walk you through the process of bandage wrapping cheddar cheese. The result will be a beaut...

Wood Aging Boards

Wood Aging Boards

The wood shelves we use for aging cheese, are a combination of tight pine boards and ash. We generally use pine boards for...

Updated beginner cheese-making kit

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