Women makes cheese

[WendyHouse]

Not really the cheep way of doing things as I don't have a cow, but I wanted to give them a go.

I'm proud of myself really. Made some Butter



And some cheese



The cheese needs to mature for a couple of weeks before I will use it.


But I did it

[Andy Hamilton]

Nice one! That is something I have been meaning to do for years. Was it difficult?

[hamster]

Oh, wow, well done you! Let us know how the cheese turns out.

I really want a cow...

[WendyHouse]

Not too bad, but its not cheep to get set up. I'm hopefully going to make a lot more. You do need a lot of milk though for the amount of cheese you get, I only used 1ltr this time as I wanted to see if I could do the cheese. The butter was so easy, just double cream left out of the fridge all day. Put it in the food mixer, mix until it separates rinse all of the butter milk out, give the butter a good bashing, squeeze, rinse again add a little salt and hay presto, Butter. Do make sure you get all the butter milk out I have read it will taste nasty after a couple of days if you don't. Its worth making if you find a cheep supplier of milk and cream.

Here is a link to cheese making info,

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Ch ... course.htm

[PeterNZ]

We make our own cheese since almost a year now. I saw a cheese press at a friends place and it is really simple and cheap to make your own. I just used some timber from the shed and some material from the local engineering shop. If you can cut a piece of wood and drill holes you can build a cheese press!!!

Here is a picture


The square feta mould we bought at the cheesemakers supplier but the round one is a cut off from a down pipe. We went to our plumber and asked if he has cut offs. You can get them for free and different sizes and just drill some holes in them. Voila! Round cheese moulds. You then have to cut out the followers with a jigsaw.

Cheers

Peter

[frozenthunderbolt]

Coooool! working at a hardware shope at the moment and am using my staff discount to get set up for different crafts (carpenter, soapmaker, leatherworker etc) later in life.
I realy want to make a combo cheeseANDcider press and i dont think i'll have a better time to get the materials by the looks of things

[Wombat]

Be a bit careful of the PVC downpipes, sometimes they use lead compounds as lubricants when they extrude the pipe.....

There may also be unreacted Vinyl chloride monomer in trace amounts, and it is fat soluble.

Just a thought.....

Nev

[PeterNZ]

Be a bit careful of the PVC downpipes, sometimes they use lead compounds as lubricants when they extrude the pipe.....

There may also be unreacted Vinyl chloride monomer in trace amounts, and it is fat soluble.

Just a thought.....

Nev

Oopsie Daisy! Does it help if I run this through a dish washer? Well we don't use the down pipe moulds anymore since we bought some from the cheesemaker supplier. We used them in the beginning. Just shows that you can never be sure about anything.

Thanks heaps Nev for telling me!

Cheers

Peter

[ina]

I used some ex-yoghurt pots for cheese molds, for non-pressed "fresh" cheese (which can mature for a few weeks, too). You need to get the type made of thick, slightly softish plastic; they are getting more difficult to get, as they are now all trying to save on plastic and are using the thin ones (with extra cardboard around them). I suppose some ice cream also comes in these.

Anyway, if you just drill holes in them, they are great for draining the whey out of your curds.

[Wombat]

Be a bit careful of the PVC downpipes, sometimes they use lead compounds as lubricants when they extrude the pipe.....

There may also be unreacted Vinyl chloride monomer in trace amounts, and it is fat soluble.

Just a thought.....

Nev

Oopsie Daisy! Does it help if I run this through a dish washer? Well we don't use the down pipe moulds anymore since we bought some from the cheesemaker supplier. We used them in the beginning. Just shows that you can never be sure about anything.

Thanks heaps Nev for telling me!

Cheers

Peter

No worries mate!

I think that if you use the stuff that is designed for use with potable water you might be OK.

Nev