Made yogurt for the first time last night.
Had it for breakfast this morn with some granola. Not bad.
Really just did it as a first step toward cheese making. I plan on either tonight or tomorrow taking some to turn into Labneh by just draining the whey for 24 hrs.
Then I will give my first rennet cheese a try.
I have been following this webpage as a process to get into it: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/cheese_course/cheese_course.htm
Its pretty in that it starts off really easy (yogurt) and steps through increasing difficult recipes ending with blue cheese.
I take exception to some of his procedures in sanitizing just because I know that you can sanitize at much lower temps than boiling and he has you boil the equipment for 10 min. But that is minute.
Been homebrewing a couple a years now and am really excited for the cheese making. Especially since it is something my wife can get into also (unlike hombrewing).
This subforum isn't terribly active and I miss having a great active forum to learn from like I had here at HBT for brewing.
So I will try to contribute some activity...
Had it for breakfast this morn with some granola. Not bad.
Really just did it as a first step toward cheese making. I plan on either tonight or tomorrow taking some to turn into Labneh by just draining the whey for 24 hrs.
Then I will give my first rennet cheese a try.
I have been following this webpage as a process to get into it: http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/cheese_course/cheese_course.htm
Its pretty in that it starts off really easy (yogurt) and steps through increasing difficult recipes ending with blue cheese.
I take exception to some of his procedures in sanitizing just because I know that you can sanitize at much lower temps than boiling and he has you boil the equipment for 10 min. But that is minute.
Been homebrewing a couple a years now and am really excited for the cheese making. Especially since it is something my wife can get into also (unlike hombrewing).
This subforum isn't terribly active and I miss having a great active forum to learn from like I had here at HBT for brewing.
So I will try to contribute some activity...