Came here from reddit seeing a post saying that your comment section was full of Italians saying go f#@$ yourself but looking at this comment section I see that everyone here is just so nice and even though I don't like cheese I'm still subscribing
I would have bet money that this cheese wouldn't work. I thought Jim had lost his mind when he posted it :-) I wonder how long you can get away with scalding the milk before the rennet won't work... Hmm... I suspect it would be *very* challenging with homogenised milk, though. I make lots of similar cheeses to this. Probably one of my favourite things to eat with my breakfast. It really grows on you.
Hi Gavin :-) Watching you all the way from Norway! Have one question: Where do you get those plastic boxes with clip-on lid and the draining grid on the bottom? We could use a few!
Thanks for answering, I am trying to bring the recipe to the means I have. For 100 liters of pasteurized milk, how many grams of salt should I use? And if it is pasteurized I should use calcium right? And finally, what is the purpose of heating to 90 degrees and then lowering it? Is it necessary to do this step with pasteurized milk?
From the look of it and the fact it's a fresh cheese, it kinda reminds me of cotija or queso fresco. I'm trying to find some good fresh cheeses to try cause I have all the cheese making stuff but I have no wine fridge to use for a temperature controlled "cheese cave"
Hi Gavin, my Mum would drain and press a ricotta in the fridge and then"dry" it in a very low oven for up to 12 hours - pretty much a baked ricotta - this cheese is perfect for that and makes a lovely storing cheese for grating on pasta! Thank you for awakening that memory for me!
Could press this cheese to dry it up some and then age it for a period of time? Or go full rogue and add a tiny bit of blue culture? My brain has gone out the window on this one...lol.
Thanks for this recipe Gavin - looks a bit similar to Queso Fresco (potentially less salty). How does this compare to Queso Fresco? I would have thought Queso Fresco tastes a bit more delicate given the milk is heated to a lower temperature of 37 C.
Just an odd question, why not make a Mongolian cheese? Like horse milk cheese. Or even more -- camel milk. Probably too expensive for either or impractical, but just an out there idea