Learn To Make Cheese

When you get serious about making cheese at home, you may want to consider investing in a cheese press. While you can find a cheese press at most cheese supply stores, you can also make one fairly inexpensively.   We would opt to purchase one, but if you have carpentry skills like this author from Mother Earth News, making a press from pieces you already have is a great idea.  Check out this detailed description of how to make your own cheese press.

An excerpt:

“I love homemade cheese and find the majority of store-bought varieties lacking in many respects. However, mass-manufactured cheese presses that remove the supermarket middleman can run you up to $100, taking much of the fun (and all of the cost savings) out of it. I happened upon a very simple design a few years ago, which I put together for nothing. (If you have to buy the parts I had on hand, they will run you about $15.) Our source of pure milk is Daisy Mae, a holstein-jersey mix I received six years ago as partial payment for some carpentry work.”

A Homemade Cheese Press.

The site Living Off the Grid has countless tips on everything from solar cooking to composting.  There’s also a piece on their efforts at homemade cheesemaking.  But you don’t need to be completely self-sufficient in order to enjoy making cheese at home.  As you may have already seen, cheesemaking is very much a process of trial and error. (more…)

Once you’ve mastered the basics of cheese rennets and curds, it’s time to branch out to make different types of cheese.  With the right ingredients and equipment, blue cheese is fairly easy to make at home. (more…)

Finding a suitable and unique pastime is relatively effortless. One only has to make use of the existing resources and apply the necessary processes. Cheesemaking, the art of making cheese at home, has come, and with today’s technology and the availability of equipment, the process easily becomes an enjoyable, simple, and even rewarding hobby. (more…)

The recent growth and popularity of chess making at the household level has lead to an explosion in the industry, which has resulted to the development of techniques, rise in sales of all equipments needed for making cheese, and a renewed interest on the product itself. This food, which has been with mankind since the era of the ancient civilizations, has probably never been more popular than the fame it enjoys in recent history. With huge demand in cheese and its derivatives both for household consumption or as ingredient in food items and in beverages, cheese and the equipments used in making it are sure to enjoy a continuous rise in sales in the foreseeable future. (more…)