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...

Parmesan vs. Romano: Differences, Recipes and Cheese Making Tips

Parmesan vs. Romano: Differences, Recipes and Cheese Making Tips

Lessons from the Masters in Italy Cheese is culture—literally and figuratively—and few cheeses carry that weight quite lik...

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 ...

Cheese Waxing FAQ: How to Wax Cheese for Perfect Aging

Cheese Waxing FAQ: How to Wax Cheese for Perfect Aging

Learn How to Wax Cheese Looking to seal in flavor, lock in moisture, and keep unwanted mold at bay? You’re in the right sp...

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. ...

Cheese Making pH Guide: How to Test and Control Acidity for Perfect Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Cheese Making pH Guide: How to Test and Control Acidity for Perfect Cheese

Understanding pH in Cheese Making: A Beginner-Friendly Guide When it comes to making cheese at home, understanding acidity...

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...

Affinage Cheese Course in Vermont - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Affinage Cheese Course in Vermont

Affinage is the final phase in the life cycle of cheese. This is where the fresh pressed curd undergoes changes in flavor,...

Making Traditional Saint Nectaire - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Traditional Saint Nectaire

This article details how Saint Nectaire is traditionally made in the Auvergne. The farms where the cheese is made are eith...

The Spanish Cheese Sessions at UVM - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

The Spanish Cheese Sessions at UVM

Recently I spent a few days at the VIAC program on Spanish cheese. If they had to pick one person who probably knew more a...

Learning About Parmigiano-Reggiano in Italy - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Learning About Parmigiano-Reggiano in Italy

Over the past several years I have spent a good deal of time visiting cheese makers around the world in search of the real...

Slow Food Festival in Bra Italy 2007 - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Slow Food Festival in Bra Italy 2007

In Sept Jim Wallace spent two weeks visiting traditional cheese makers in France and Italy, spending several days in the P...

Making Cheese in School - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Making Cheese in School

Ever hear of 5th graders making canolies with homemade mascarpone cheese? How about 5th graders stretching mozzarella and ...

Laurie Higgins Making Cheese - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Laurie Higgins Making Cheese

My husband and I discovered artisan cheese two summers ago at a farmer's market in Londonderry, Vt. There we bought a Came...

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...

Jim Wallace - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Jim Wallace

It has been a long road traveling in many directions, sometimes simultaneous, sound familiar. I began in pre-med but wound...

Andrea Lewis - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company

Andrea Lewis

Andrea is a new startup cheese maker and what drew her to my attention was the number of progressive questions she kept as...

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