Cheese Making Kit - make 30 different Artisan Cheeses

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Designed for experienced cheese makers, this kit includes all the products necessary for making cheese - rennet, meso and thermo cultures, lipase, calcium chloride, and Himalayan pink salt. It is remarkable that, despite being mainly focused on hard cheeses, these ingredients can be used for making soft cheese too, as well as butter and sour cream. The next great thing about the kit is that it contains not usual but a pink-colored Himalayan salt that is known for a higher mineral content beneficial for a human health, and for a more distinct taste that can intensify and highlight cheesy flavors. So, having tried simple cheeses we were ready to move on to the more complicated hard-cheese kit. All hard cheeses are made in basically the same way – you heat milk, add a curdling or setting agent (citric acid or rennet), cut the curds, drain the curds, and press the cheese. It's amazing that from this basic recipe you can get everything from rubbery American-style cheese to pecorino, mostly just by adjusting the temperatures you heat the curds to and the amount of pressure you apply to the resulting cheese. We tried Havarti (a semi-soft Danish cheese) and red Leicester.

You might simply want to make thee cheese or you may want to learn about the process, the included booklet makes both possible. As you try the recipes and sample the cheeses then you’re growing knowledge of the process will allow you modify and invent your own cheeses. Leave the curds in the mould, turning it occasionally over the next 2-4 hours, till whey stops dripping. This step can be done in a quiet spot in the kitchen or in the refrigerator. Warm the milk to 30 ºC. Add the culture (100 ml of the prepared mother culture, instructions in the envelope). Stir and cover and allow the milk to ripen for 45-60 minutes. Prepare brine using acidified whey. Do this by leaving the whey, covered, at room temperature for 12-24 hours. Add 125 gr. salt to 1 litre whey. You can also acidify the whey using lemon juice.A cheese making kit also makes a great gift for any dairy-lover, and there’s a range on the market to choose from. Not sure what to look for? Take a look at this buyer’s guide. Pieces Included in the Kit

Take the cheese from the mould and take it gently out the cloth. Leave it to dry at room temperature on a wooden plate over 2-4 days, so a rind can develop. During this time, turn the cheese a couple of times daily. If you’re new to cheese making, opt for a beginner-friendly kit. These usually come with recipes included to get you started! Number of Cheeses We selected the recipes to show the variety of cheese that can be made at home by a novice cheesemaker. Moorlands Hard Cheese Making Kit makes a fantastic Christmas gift idea or birthday present. Its Even been bought as a wedding present many times over the past 60 years. We have introduced the Big Kit specially aimed at smallholders, who, at certain times of year, may have a surplus of milk. While also being very much aimed at farmers wanting to increase the value of milk, by turning it into cheese. Taking a few litres of milk out of the bulk tank, or better still, straight from the animal, into the kitchen while it’s warm, you really get a feel for the cheese making process with one of our kits.Each recipe shows the subtle changes that can be be made to ingredients and methods with the result of producing entirely different cheeses. Most cheese making kits come with ingredients for a range of cheeses to suit even the fussiest of palettes! Cottage Cheese, Ricotta and Mascarpone are relatively easy to make, while some sets may come with ingredients for over 40 different cheeses! Smaller kits may have ingredients for just 5 or 6 cheese types. Shelf Life Moorlands cheese making kits include products made from food standard, durable materials, which looked after, will last a lifetime. The kind of homemade cheese kit you select will depend upon what one kind of cheese you would like to make. Many of these kits pull double duty and can be used for more than one kind of cheese, so consider what cheese groupings appeal to you the most. Mozzarella and ricotta can be made using many of the same kits. There are several kits that contain all the tools and ingredients for camembert, brie and blue cheese in one, making a truly versatile kit. Soft and hard cheese making kits contain the supplies needed to make several kinds of cheese, making them a good choice for more experienced cheesemakers who want more variety in their kit's capabilities. Affordable Cheesemaking What you will get is a basic set of ingredients and equipment similar to that used by farmers and professional cheese makers to mix up a number of soft and hard cheeses. There is no citric acid or vinegar to expedite curd formation. Only all-natural mesophilic and thermophilic cultures, granulated vegetarian rennet, and calcium chloride, which will come in handy should you use pasteurized milk. The number of included ingredients will suffice for making up to 53 lbs of cheese, which is impressive. Just choose a recipe from the booklet, get some milk, and you are ready to go.