Mozzarella cheese with own hands

in #hive-1143082 years ago

Hooray, we've learned how to make our own cheese!

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One of our goats set another record of 2.1 liters of milk per day. As a result, we had 3 liters of surplus. This was just enough to conduct an experiment.

There are only a few ingredients for making mozzarella: lemon or citric acid (my case), rennet, salt and milk.

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Well, then the process of "cooking" itself. First of all, add citric acid to the milk, then heat the milk to 32 degrees Celsius and add rennet. Stir and leave the milk alone for 5-10 minutes.

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After that, cut the clot and heat the resulting mass to 45 degrees, stirring gently until the clot becomes whole.

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Next, we take out the clot, drain the serum.

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Separately, salt the whey and heat it up to 75 degrees, and then bathe the cheese clot in this whey until it becomes stringy.

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And finally we squeeze out the remains of the whey, form the cheese and it's done! The cheese turned out great.

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Mozzarella can be eaten immediately after cooking.

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We tried cheese with sandwiches and melted it with pancakes. Complete delight. The goat taste is barely felt. Now we will cook cheese all the time and can say goodbye to store-bought cheese.

Then I'll try to make Gouda or something similar.

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Feta is an easy second cheese to try, and I think it's better with goat's milk. Did you know that you can also make ricotta by boiling your whey?

Yes, I know, but this time I didn't have vinegar to make a ricotta, so we used whey for pancakes

Yum! That looks delicious.
That goaty flavor is just wonderful.

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So very cool! I tried to make mozzarella once with dismal results. Too many things didn't go right...

Thanks! It didn't work out for me the first time either. The first time I tried to make cheese about 5 years ago, but then nothing happened at all.