Cheesemaking help

[Ananke]

I've wanted to make cheese for ages and read up on it a while back. I eventually got round to buying some rennet and it arrived this morning. Now i'm looking up recipes and can't find any that don't require cultures too.

I was sure I had read some recipes back then that just used rennet for a soft cheese but can't find any now. Do any of you lovely grapes who make their own cheese know of any?

[PAULW]

Cheese Making for Beginners

Making Cheese, how to make your own cheddar cheese

How To Make Homemade Cheddar Cheese Making Recipe

These should keep you quite for a while

[Ananke]

These should keep you quite for a while

LMAO

Thank you Paul

[zazen999]

I just use citric acid and rennet; for my mozzarella.

[Ananke]

I have citric acid so that is do-able

[Patchninja]

This is a really simple recipe not asking for funny ingredients!
Cheese Making

[Ananke]

Thank you Patchninja. That recipe looks great and so easy too.

Last night I started the Neufchatel from the link that Paul posted Making Neufchatel Cheese.

I've just cut the curds and have them straining now and if i've read it right, I can save the whey and make some ricotta from it tomorrow.

I'll give the mozzarella a go next, while i'm designing a press in my head for a hard cheese.

Very, very satisfying to do, just hope it tastes good

[Florence Fennel]

It certainly sounds good and if it is as satisfying as you say, it will taste good.

[Polly Fouracre]

A press for hard cheese. Two cake tins, one to fit snugly inside the other. Make holes in he bottom of each and find some weights to put on top.

[Ananke]

Polly, what a fantastic idea. I would never have thought of that.

I have a set of three cake tins that all fit inside each other and are full of junk on top of the wardrobe.... you are a star

[PAULW]

ANANKE
Hows the cheese coming along any success yet

[Ananke]

Paul it was a total success. I split the batch into 3 and mixed one with chives, one with chives and garlic and one with mango and red chili. On it's own it was beautiful but I was in a creative mood

We had some in baked potatoes for dinner tonight and everyone loved it. It really was so easy to make, I am already planning my next batch.

Thanks again for the link to Fankhauser's cheese page, it's fantastic.

[PAULW]

ANANKE
That sounds brilliant when do you open the factory Ananke's Dairy, how long does the cheese keep there is only two of us and I wouldn't like to make and waste stuff

[Ananke]

Lol @ Ananke's Dairy, I love the sound of that.

According to the recipe the cheese should be used within a week or two.............. mine didn't last that long, the boys were just in making toast there so they could spread the last of the cheese on it.

[VirginVegGrower]

I just use citric acid and rennet; for my mozzarella.

Ahem...and where is the ingredient list/destructions? Shall we keep the cows up in my garden?