Cheese making equipment

Colby cheddar is a mild cheese with an open texture. Colby has more moisture than most cheddars, and that extra moisture is maintained with cheese wax during the aging process.

The rapid growth of farmhouse and small-scale artisan cheese-making in the UK has seen a matching growth of suppliers of cheese-making equipment, starter cultures, moulds and bacteria, keen to supply the UK market. Listed below are some of the best places to buy cheese-making equipment and cultures (in no particular order), either for home-scale size (listed first) or artisan/farmhouse size (listed later). If you are a farmer and are thinking about diversifying into cheese-making, please do…

If you want to venture into cheese making, there are three components you need to think about: the ingredients, the equipment and the process. Most types of cheese are made with milk, rennet, salt and cultures. Some people feel that having the ingredients, knowing the basic steps in cheese making and some cooking materials at home is enough to start them off in artisan cheese making; but using the proper cheese making equipment can actually contribute to the success of your cheese…

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Sanitation is key for making cheese, particularly mold-ripened or hard cheese. Here are the 4 steps to sanitizing for homemade cheese.

If you have extra milk from your goats, cows, etc... making cheese is a great way to use it. Making cheese is an art and you can get really creative in making hard or soft cheese in an endless variety of savory, sweet and spicy flavors and if you wax hard cheese they can be…

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An essential first step to making homemade cheese is making sure that you have all of the necessary equipment and ingredients before you begin. Below is a list of essential cheesemaking equipment and ingredients that will get you started on your homemade cheese adventure. Also, be sure to check out…

A step by step, guide to make your own cheese cultures at home. Simple, easy instructions to making you own thermophilic and mesophilic cultures at home. Also included what is mesophilic and