Successful Cheesemaking: Step-by-Step Instructions and Photos for Making Nearly Every Type of Cheese

LEARN the traditional & professional ways of making the finest cheeses of cow's, goat's, or sheep's milk, using simple home equipment. Step-by-step instructions are clear & easy to follow. With over 800 beautiful black & white photos, your cheesemaking questions will be answered. Book progresses from the milk itself, through all kinds of renneted & non-renneted cheeses, grouped by each great cheese family. Learn how to make cheese just the way you like by varying the acidity, moisture, temperature, salting, & ripening so cheese can be strong or mild, hard or soft, mold-ripened or plain. Instructions range from lactic-coagulated Yogurt, Sour Cream, & Chevre, through renneted Bandaged Cheddar, Tomme, Alpine Comte-style, Brie-style, Gouda, stretched-curd Mozzarella, plus more. There are washed-curd cheeses like Havarti & Raclette, whey cheeses like Ricotta & Mysost, & Scandinavian cheeses. In addition, ripening & rind treatments from dry-brushed to moldy, bloomy to smeared, are described in easy-to-understand detail. Learn about ingredients, equipment, & how to make cheese presses. All measurements in both metric & English. Includes Frequently Asked Questions, cheesemaking record-keeping charts, suppliers, further reading, references, 20-page glossary, & 30-page index. Foreword by Ricki Carroll. PARTIAL CONTENTS: The milk; supermarket pasteurized milk; proper milk cooling, handling, safety. Equipment & supplies; home cheese vat; pressing, building cheese presses. Recognizing problem recipes; rennet; starter cultures; acidity, pH meters. Flavor/texture development. Acid-plus-heat coagulated Ricotta, Pot Cheese, Sweet Feta-style; Mizithra. Lactic-acid-coagulated Buttermilk; Cottage Cheese; Sour Cream; Yogurt; Chevre: plain, molded, ashed; smoked Rygeost/Quark. Soft, fresh, renneted Feta-style, Cambazola; Haloumi, Anari; Blue Cheese; Brie-style. Lightly pressed, renneted Farmer's Cheese; ripened, reddish Reblochon. Renneting; flocculation; clean break; texture at cutting. Mesophilic French Tomme; Bandaged Cheddar. Salting; rind treatments. Washed-curd Danish Havarti Esrom, Samsoe; Danbo. Smear ripening. Raclette; Gouda. Brushed rinds. Thermophilic styles: Kefalotyri, Comte, Emmental. Eyes. Stretched-curd Mozzarella, Scamorza, Burrata. Shaping. Whey cheeses: Ricotta, Manouri, Mysost/Gjetost, Crème Fraîche, Whey Butter, cultured Butter; Ghee.

Merryl Winstein discovered the wonder of artisan cheese when she traveled to Denmark as a teenager. Since 2004, she has taught thousands of people to make the finest artisan cheeses at home. This book is the culmination of 8 years of research and writing.Winstein earned her degree in Fine Arts/Graphic Communications with a minor in Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. She raised dairy goats for 22 years in her suburban St. Louis, Missouri backyard. She enjoys travel, playing folk violin, learning languages, and riding bicycles. This is her second book.