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How To Make Your Own Aged, Hard Cheese … From Scratch
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How To Make Your Own Aged, Hard Cheese … From Scratch
Making hard cheeses is no more difficult than making soft cheese. The curd-making, which is the soft cheese-making stage, can be considered the most difficult part of the whole process.
For hard cheese, you have just a few minutes of work followed by several hours, days or weeks of wait time.
Before getting started making your own hard cheeses from milk, you will need some extra equipment. This is more specialized equipment so you will need to purchase some or all of it from a cheese-making supplier.
Supplies
Cheese Mold and Press. These units can be rather expensive but if you are going to make hard cheeses often, it is an excellent investment.
Your choice of how to age your cheese. There are several ways to age and store your cheeses. Depending on which process you choose, your supplies will vary: 1) Cheese salt – this is used for those cheeses that are rubbed with salt or brined prior to aging. 2) Cheesecloth, butter muslin and your choice of fat – these items are used in the wrapping of cheese for aging and storage.
Waxed paper
Plastic wrap
Aluminum foil
A place to age your cheese.
A place to store your cheese.
So let’s take the plunge into making hard cheeses! The following instructions will walk you through the process of pressing your cheese. The only differences you will find on the specific cheese-making recipes will be the different pressures required for that specific cheese type or if you are making a “blue,” or mold-veined, cheese. The latter will include directions for adding the proper mold culture to create the veined aspect of that cheese….more here
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