New England Cheese Making Supply Company - Review (And a Giveaway)

About the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company (From the website)

Founded in 1978 by Ricki Carroll, aka 'the cheese queen' & the author of Home Cheese Making, we provide cheesemaking and dairy products around the world. We bring you the best selection of ingredients & equipment for home and artisanal use and happily share our expertise with our customers. In sharing stories, teaching classes and basically loving what we do, we provide many free recipes and a technical support system for your benefit. Enjoy and welcome to the world of cheesemaking!

I was lucky enough to be able to make my own cheese!   I was sent the cheese making kit to make mozzarella & ricotta.


Details of the kit:

This kit can be purchased by itself or as part of the Starter Special (Item# AGSD). Kit contains enough ingredients to make Mozzarella 30 times using our own easy recipe! The whole process takes ±30 minutes!!! For those of you who have goat's milk, this recipe works like a charm. Our Mozzarella recipe may also be made with powdered milk (recipe included)! To see the actual recipe, click on the 'More Information" tab above. Recipe booklet also includes recipe for quick and easy Ricotta, as well as a small variety of recipes using these two cheeses.

CONTENTS: Dairy Thermometer (E3), Butter Muslin (U2), Citric Acid (C13), Vegetable Rennet Tablets (R4), Cheese Salt (S1) and Recipe Booklet

USAGE: Use to make Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese in the comfort of your own kitchen!!!

STORAGE: Kit will store at room temperature up to 1 year. Rennet tablets will last longer if stored in the freezer. Once opened, store  citric acid and salt in well sealed containers in a cool, dry place. They will last indefinitely.

My Review: 

Most people probably spent their Memorial Day barbequing not me! I made lasagna. I know not a traditional Memorial Day meal, but I had a reason, I was sent a cheese making kit from New England Cheesemaking Supply Company (http://www.cheesemaking.com/.) Monday was the only time I could really devote to making the cheese, it’s not a complex process but it is a bit of a time hog.

I enlisted my husband to help, his job was simple stir the milk to make sure it doesn’t scold and watch the temperature; he did a bang up job!  From there I strained the curd from the whey put it into the cheese cloth and let it hand to strain some more. The hanging part was tricky, where the heck can I hang a bag of cheese? I had to turn on my MacGyver instincts and figure something out, I came up with tying it to a basting brush and hanging it over a large pot, it worked; my husband declared me a genius and gave me a high five.


The end result was a delicious 2 pounds of ricotta cheese; the taste was superb better than the prepackaged stuff and made my lasagna a home run. It really was satisfying to make something totally from scratch. Our next task is to make mozzarella, maybe homemade pizza? I’ll let you know. All in all for $24.95 you can make a lot of cheese, just about 30 times to be exact. So if you’re looking for something different to do, or just want to see what it’s like to make cheese pick up a kit and have at it. I’m glad I had the opportunity; it wasn’t nearly as hard or daunting as I had originally thought. We had a great time making the cheese and an even better time eating the fruits…..er cheeses of our labor.

Buy it:

Visit http://www.cheesemaking.com/ 
to purchase this and other kits.

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