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How To Make Homemade Cheese

Making cheese at home can be easy with the right supplies and clean conditions. The document provides instructions for making cheese including obtaining a cheese making kit, using fresh and clean milk within 3 days, and thoroughly sanitizing all equipment before each use to prevent unwanted bacteria. It also discusses preparing a clean kitchen workspace with a temperature around 70F and cleaning all surfaces. Following cheese recipes precisely and maintaining proper temperatures and sanitization will result in delicious homemade cheese that can be enjoyed or gifted to others.

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How To Make Homemade Cheese

Making cheese at home can be easy with the right supplies and clean conditions. The document provides instructions for making cheese including obtaining a cheese making kit, using fresh and clean milk within 3 days, and thoroughly sanitizing all equipment before each use to prevent unwanted bacteria. It also discusses preparing a clean kitchen workspace with a temperature around 70F and cleaning all surfaces. Following cheese recipes precisely and maintaining proper temperatures and sanitization will result in delicious homemade cheese that can be enjoyed or gifted to others.

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How to Make Homemade Cheese

Cheese Making can be as easy as baking a cake!  So how to make cheese? First we need
to find the cheese recipe that is right for you.  Come, experience these cheese making
recipes in your own home!  With simple step-by-step directions of how to make cheese,
you'll find it easy to make your own delicious cheeses at home.  You will need a the right
cheese making kit and supplies necessary for this venture.  Surprise your family and friends
with your own Dutch Gouda, blue cheese or goat cheese.The history of cheese making goes
back thousands of years.  It has evolved and been perfected over the years until we have
the cheese of today.  Many are rediscovering the enjoyment of making their own beautiful
cheese right in their own home.  Many varieties can be made from cow or goat's milk that
may be available from a small acreage (like ourselves) or large farm, or simply milk from
grocery store. We use relatively the same recipes for making cheese that people have used
for hundreds of years. Now, there are a few simple but very important rules to follow to have
success with making your home made cheese, from cottage cheese to Duch Gouda, (Gouda
cheese being one of are most successful in making).

The milk must be fresh, we suggest that the milk be no more than three days old for fresh
raw milk. What we have is one cow and so we store the milk in the fridge until we have our
three and a half gallons.  For store bought milk just go by the expiry date. When using milk
from your own cow or goat, be sure to store it in clean sanitized containers. Glass containers
or stainless steel are ideal in my opinion for they cool quickly and they also clean well in the
dishwasher.

All your utilities (cheese cloth, the press, etc.) must be sanitized before using each time.  I
use any bacterial dish soap and chlorine bleach to wash everything in, following with a very
thorough hot rinsing. Cleanliness is the key to success.  If you have a wood press, putting it
in the dishwasher is not recommended. The dishwasher could ruin your cheese press.

A stainless steel or plastic press are absolutely the best, for they scrub well and are
dishwasher compatible. The reason for all the scrubbing and cleanliness to get rid of any
potential milk stones that may form on any surface that has come into contact with milk.  Milk
bacteria multiply very quickly.   Unwanted bacteria could ruin your wheel of cheese or even
make you sick.

First, let's talk about your kitchen.

 Ideally the temperature of your kitchen should be in the range of 20 C for Canadians
or 70F for those who live in the US.  Unless you have air conditioning, your kitchen
may be too warm during the summer months for cheese making.  In the Fall through
to Spring, it is much easier to keep the temperature constant around the 70 F mark.

 Next, you don't need a big or fancy kitchen to make cheese from these recipes, but
your kitchen must be very clean for the best chance of success.  The key is you don't
want to get the wrong bacteria working in your cheese, which could lead to a bitter or
sour wheel of cheese, yuk!
 We will be using certain types of bacteria to produce the different recipe's and
varieties of cheeses.  Unwanted bacteria can come from a few crumbs of bread left
on the counter to a hair falling into the cheese pot. So give your work area a good
thorough cleaning before you begin and you will have very good success with your
cheese making.

Take the time necessary to follow the cheese recipe precisely. With ideal temperatures, a
clean kitchen, and proper ingredients, your cheese recipe will make a delicious product.

When you make homemade cheese, you could give it away as a gift cheese. We have found
that cheese gifts work great when the cow is just giving too much cheese for our family to
eat. We have discovered that family and friends will come back to buy cheese the next time.

Name: Simbolon Selfania M


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