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I have recently got in to making cheeses… so I have watched so many videos. Watching this was pure joy. I wanted to tear up with you when you cut in to it! Sheer unbridled joy! Bravo.. so very inspiring! Clapping hard from Wales, UK!
I salute you. Its not easy to record and keep a proper update for every cheese. I salute you. Its not easy to keep the recorded vids of every cheese you make and also short vids of you putting them in fridges with every 3 weeks or 6 weeks.
I’m currently in the middle of making my own Gruyère. I got a lot of blue as well, and the advice I found online was to use a 3% brine daily until the B. Linens gets going, and that once that takes off, blue is practically incapable of growing (explanation in replies). After that, you only use the brine to wipe off any mold that shows up. At this point, my Gruyère looks like a carrot and smells like a barn, but I haven’t had any blue growth whatsoever since I tried that.
So the reason you want to use a 3% brine is because that’s about the ideal salt level for Geotrichum. You also don’t want to use vinegar or whey in the brine like I originally did. Blue molds such as Roqueforti can handle much higher salt levels and pH/higher acidity than what you want on Gruyère. When you wash with it, yeast followed by Geotrichum help raise the pH/lower acidity of the cheese. That makes it so that B. Linens will grow much faster than blue. Once the B. Linens is there, the combination of higher pH and B. Linens producing anti-fungal compounds makes it not nice for blue.
This is probably the best cheese I've seen in this channel, OMG, true alpine washed rind, and the color is just perfect, similar to Beaufort or Comté. And you can see the ripening in the area near the rind, perfection really 👌
That gruyére looks amazing, well done to you, i'm very impressed. It looks exactly like the Gruyeres i have tried from switzerland, what a wonderful colour too, i'm gonna have to try this for sure!
I have not much cheese knowledge and not crazy about cheese (more a sweet tooth person), but even then I can tell your end product is amazing! Your hard work pays off :) I enjoy watching the process, thank you for sharing.
I'm not crying, you are crying! Excellent video! You are such a rebel with a cause and you won't let anything defeat you! What an inspiration you are to others. I am 72 and starting my cheese making journey. So many to do! I just have to find my cheese cave yet. I don't have access to raw milk in Nevada. CA or AZ closest places. I watched a gal that made a culture with store milk and reg. buttermilk, she had a process. Would that we the same as you using raw milk to make your culture??? She is from Buck Ridge Homestead. So many recipes I want to make. Thanks for your inspiration. A huge fan our your channel! Lori
You are my favorite cheese maker on youtube! I love learning with you and how much you share through out the process. You are also a hoot, so much fun to watch! Watching your videos has given me so much confidence to just keep doing cheese even if I don't know if I'm doing it right haha. I mean I might as well considering there is 25 gallons of milking rolling into the house every week whether I use it up or not.
This is the exact kind of cheesemaking video I’ve been trying to find for months on youtube. So informative and easygoing! I am now ready to try out making my first hard cheese, thank you 🙏🏽!!
This is awesome. I just got into cheese making. I’m starting with the soft cheeses of course. But I feel that I won’t be able to make hard cheeses, at least not until I have a house. I have 2 golden retrievers in a 1 bedroom apartment and there’s just hair everywhere no matter how much I clean and I don’t have a place to age the cheese. I can’t wait to have a house where I could do it though. A lot of people like the convenience, but people like us love a challenge and the process. I graduated college a year ago, so I’m figuring out life on my own.. but I’m enjoying having a kitchen. Tomorrow I’m starting my homemade vanilla extract that will be ready in December for Christmas gifts and I’m also buying cacao beans to start making chocolate. I’m trying to find what cheese to make next, I’ve made mozzarella and ricotta so far and made lasagna with it
It looks amazing. I just want to say that we are a little like you we never follow a recipe to the letter we always wing it. We appreciate the way you try to fix things... Deja Vu 😅😅
OMG! What an adventure! Just made my first knob of mozza the other day, and already looking to level up. You are SO inspirational!!! thankyou SO much for this video!!! xxx
Your timing is impeccable. I’m working on a Gruyère, and its fur coat was pretty gnarly for a minute. I was sure pleasantly surprised to see how nice it looked when I gave it a brine bath. It’s looking like yours! Also, good news, I didn’t screw up the calcium chloride! Yay! It’s developing this pretty brown rind, which is dry, as well as an even coating of white fuzz. The fuzz retreats when I wash it, and comes back evenly between washings. Fingers crossed it isn’t disgusting when I cut into it many months from now. Maybe I’ll have a pig by then! 😂 I’m wondering if you’d mind sharing where you get your big clear aging containers. Thanks for another excellent video!
Beautiful! I'm drying off two of my three milk goats for the season, and wishing I had started more cheeses to age for the winter, but I'm going to try to get a couple small (1-2 lb) wheels going at least... It's harder to play around when you're not getting gallons every day!
I literally felt your joy when you tasted it!! 😊😊😊 i recently acquired 2 jerseys and I’m milking and selling clean raw milk. I want to start making cheese! I will be following you!
Very impressive. Gruyère is one of my favourite cheeses and I would love to have tasted that one. Looked superb! I’ve only just started cheese making, but it’s great to learn that you can use yogurt as a starter culture! Would regular natural yogurt from the supermarket work? Thank you.
So I've watched this video a few times and finally made this cheese. I also took a "page from your book" and went hands in on my stiring for the first time! Didn't have clabbard, so I used thermo c and p. Shermani. Hopefully it'll come out as great as yours! BTW what a great view out your kitchen window.
Never made cheese before but this looks really cool and I’m glad this popped up in my algorithm. I love making mead and bread; making cheese looks right up my ally!
That was amazing and an amazing process! You did a great job, truly. I wish UA-cam would have give you better numbers bc you sincerely deserved it...the cheese came out BEAUTIFULLY!
Hi Gary from the UK here grate video very interesting and informative keep them coming thank you for your videos you really put things in simple terms, I watched a programme on cheese not sure what type of cheese it was a long time ago, but they painted the whole cheese with melted butter this creates a seal and a good skin on the cheese, I thought it might help with the mould problem.
This was fascinating. Set up of the house is really interesting, going for a walk in the middle really active, reading a book while cooking, but the best bit is making a mistake correcting it. I’m just going on I’m not worrying about it. What a cool lady that is. Liked and subbed.
Jennifer a question about brineing a hard cheese. Even though you added salt prior to pressing would you still brine. Enjoy your videos, very informative. Thanks
Oh I’m jealous, I would love to make cheese. My raw milk source is a 2 hr round trip drive to the Amish and sometimes they don’t have any but I can’t call them ahead of time to be sure. It’s just a pain so I make simple cheese when I get milk. I love your videos !!!
I grew up in St. Louis where there was a department store called Famous Barr. They had a small lunch place that served French onion soup that was dripping with baked and bubbly Gruyere cheese. Loved how you guarded your prize from your hungry child. I see how it is there. The family gets the scratch and dent cheeses, right??
That looks to die for! Well done! I think the rind looks spectacular and the colour of the paste is amazing. Truly there are no words!!! I'd love to try making my own clabber (but not from goats milk) and I can only buy cultured buttermilk here - would that work do you think? Love to hear your view.
Jennifer!.... i watched this whole video salivating at the edge of my seat to see the end result...lol ... awesome job.... i also saw the Cujada video and made some since i always add salt to my mozza and ricotta anyway...it is YUMMY!... made a rice and beans with with my a saute sauce from my lil backyard food garden to have with Cujada kinda like what you shown at the end of that video and WOW!... anyhoo QUESTION!... can i give back life to pasteurized whole milk by adding Buttermilk to it ? and would be like a cup of buttermilk to a gallon of whole milk? asking for a friend :)
I have not tried to turn pasteurized milk into buttermilk via cultured buttermilk, but according to this video you can! www.seriouseats.com/diy-cultured-buttermilk-recipe
thx for that quick response :) ... making the buttermilk substitute from yogurt or sour cream i'm ok with... but after my first comment ... i was searching for RAW farm i finally found one an hour away that make RAW Jersey milk weekly ...at 12bux a gallon mind you ...sigh... but i'm going out there for fresh air and befriend a cattle rancher's daughter...that could end up fun lol :)
AND YET, though not done with the cheese, I want to know more about the sourdough, overnight pancake batter. Caring For Cheese - by opinionated Frenchman: (to be read with a thick French accent) "Sheese is a living sing. You do not put eet in ze refridgerateur, joost as you do not poot your cat in zee refridgerateur!." Like you, I'm all about difficult hobbies. Winemaking, shoemaking, sourdough baking, archery. gardening, woodcraft... 70 now and am contemplating a cheese fridge and the making of aged cheeses. It never ends! - nor should it. At the end: color, perfect - tears justified. ...and on to your next video thanks
I'm making cheese every day(not the quantity you make as I've only three nannies) so after I've salted the curds I use the residual salty whey to wash cheeses that are starting to mould so I'm not actually storing the salty whey... However I have friends who store the unsalted whey in their fridges for a week to make their smoothies so I'd check it out. It's traditional in Portugal to wash all the cheeses in whey and it does give them a skin similar to your beautiful gruyere. I use clabber also and each week make a fresh jar with a tablespoon sized slosh of warm whey into fresh milk as I find the clabber gets runner as the days go by. My old neighbour just 'back slops' each day so a cup of yesterday's whey goes into the fresh milk to culture it. Absolutely loved your demonstration. Many thanks from the mountains of Portugal 😊
@ I am sorry I was commenting on a different video and yours came up in my feed while I was in the middle of commenting, so some how it ended up on your video.
How would you go about the ageing process using the vac pack method after brining? I want to use the vac pack method if simpler. Thanks alot for the hard work and explanation of all the details
Just vac pack it and age it at 55°F, flipping every few days. It won't have the same depth of flavor or a pretty rind, but it will still be a good cheese.
Thanks for the quick reply. Really helps as its currently in the press at 60lbs for 4-5hrs after flipping twice(one hour before each at 40lbs). It's a big one so quite scared. Made from just over 11gallons of fresh milk😅. In the large deluxe mold from new england. Anyway to my question, at what stage should I vac pack it? After the first couple days of salting to form a rind and wiping off any mold or right after brining or any other advice? Why I'm so scared is my first one cracked and completely disintegrated while in the brine and I have no idea why😢 my brine was nicely saturated and all so don't know why and found no help online whatsoever.maybe because I brine it in my cheese cave (55F) instead of room temp,I don't know so really hoping for this one not to do the same.thanks so much for your videos and help through then n on here.
@@omarmahmood611 After brining, air dry the cheese for several days, flipping twice a day, until it is dry to the touch. (Sometimes I let my cheeses air dry for 2 days and sometimes for 2 weeks --- there's not an exact deadline.) Then vac pack and age!
I have been making fresh cheeses for awhile now. Just getting ready to convert a wine or mini fridge into a cheese cave I've noticed you haven't made feta or atleast made a video on feta? Feta is perfect for beginners and homemade feta blows the doors off store bought and it's very easy and has a more creamy texture then store bought. Any plans on a feta video? 😊
Feta is my nemesis! I've tried it a couple times and both times it failed. How ridiculous is that?! It's on my to-make list, and I WILL be conquoring it soon. Do you have a good recipe to recommend?
@@jmilkslinger i watched the gavin webber video. I'm surprised after all the other cheeses you made with such higher difficulty ratings! The lipase is key to the feta i think plus you age it in brine with a little calcium chloride in the fridge no cave needed! Give it another go? Every time i make it i watch his video as a refresher.
How do you know its gruyere flavored cheese? What are the decernments of additions to recipes that develop the types of cheeses? Confusing for me. Thank you.
Good question! This has been an ongoing confusing thing, for me, too. Every cheese is different and "official" cheeses as we know them (like Parmesan, Gruyere, Jarlsberg, etc) are highly regulated and industrialized. Small tweaks make big changes. The more scientific a maker gets, and the more specific with notes, the more uniform the product. I'm not there, though (and don't really want to be). I'm afraid my answer probably doesn't clear anything up for you, though...
So because, in the past, people would making a daily cheese from the daily milking, the flipping and salt rubbing would be done for several cheeses yeah?
I guess that, as it is for us, it would depend on how much kitchen space and how many cows they had, as well as the season. But yes, if you have more space and more milk, then you'd be doing more cheeses.
It looks great, really. Luckily, you didn't vacpack it... Where dud you keep those plastic containers? What temperature? Looks like the humidity during that period was too high and caused all your problems. But the final result, chapeau bas...😉🙂
@@jmilkslinger my Gruyere is almost 13 months old, I've been keeping it in a cheese cooler all the time. A couple more months and I'll think about opening it...
Bravo! But does it taste like a Gruyère? Maybe this is THE cheese your terroir wants you to make. And is it just me, or do any other cheese makers find the sound of a cheese going in and out of a mold . . . satisfying?
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I have recently got in to making cheeses… so I have watched so many videos. Watching this was pure joy. I wanted to tear up with you when you cut in to it! Sheer unbridled joy! Bravo.. so very inspiring! Clapping hard from Wales, UK!
My husband calls you "the Enabler" because I can't wait for my cheeses to age- just too impatient, and then I refer to you tasting early lol
Haha, that's hilarious!
I salute you. Its not easy to record and keep a proper update for every cheese. I salute you. Its not easy to keep the recorded vids of every cheese you make and also short vids of you putting them in fridges with every 3 weeks or 6 weeks.
Very nice MashaAllah.the skin is beutifuly developed.i am also Artician cheese maker in Pakistan.wish May Allah give you more success.
I’m currently in the middle of making my own Gruyère. I got a lot of blue as well, and the advice I found online was to use a 3% brine daily until the B. Linens gets going, and that once that takes off, blue is practically incapable of growing (explanation in replies). After that, you only use the brine to wipe off any mold that shows up. At this point, my Gruyère looks like a carrot and smells like a barn, but I haven’t had any blue growth whatsoever since I tried that.
So the reason you want to use a 3% brine is because that’s about the ideal salt level for Geotrichum. You also don’t want to use vinegar or whey in the brine like I originally did. Blue molds such as Roqueforti can handle much higher salt levels and pH/higher acidity than what you want on Gruyère. When you wash with it, yeast followed by Geotrichum help raise the pH/lower acidity of the cheese. That makes it so that B. Linens will grow much faster than blue. Once the B. Linens is there, the combination of higher pH and B. Linens producing anti-fungal compounds makes it not nice for blue.
I am addicted to Gruyere, but it helps a lot the fact that I don't live anymore in Switzerland and it's not imported here.
I would be so fat.
This is probably the best cheese I've seen in this channel, OMG, true alpine washed rind, and the color is just perfect, similar to Beaufort or Comté. And you can see the ripening in the area near the rind, perfection really 👌
That gruyére looks amazing, well done to you, i'm very impressed. It looks exactly like the Gruyeres i have tried from switzerland, what a wonderful colour too, i'm gonna have to try this for sure!
I make mead, I have a very good idea of the effort that goes into your cheeses, I'd go broke buying your cheeses. you put so much into them.
I have not much cheese knowledge and not crazy about cheese (more a sweet tooth person), but even then I can tell your end product is amazing! Your hard work pays off :) I enjoy watching the process, thank you for sharing.
I'm not crying, you are crying! Excellent video! You are such a rebel with a cause and you won't let anything defeat you! What an inspiration you are to others. I am 72 and starting my cheese making journey. So many to do! I just have to find my cheese cave yet. I don't have access to raw milk in Nevada. CA or AZ closest places. I watched a gal that made a culture with store milk and reg. buttermilk, she had a process. Would that we the same as you using raw milk to make your culture??? She is from Buck Ridge Homestead. So many recipes I want to make. Thanks for your inspiration. A huge fan our your channel! Lori
It's not the same, but it's another variation on the theme...
You are my favorite cheese maker on youtube! I love learning with you and how much you share through out the process. You are also a hoot, so much fun to watch! Watching your videos has given me so much confidence to just keep doing cheese even if I don't know if I'm doing it right haha. I mean I might as well considering there is 25 gallons of milking rolling into the house every week whether I use it up or not.
Oh, thank you!!
Lots of appreciation for your dedicated passionate hard work ,bravo and salute 🎉
Wow, this video is so genuine, showing the fun part and the ugly challenges, I have more gratitude for Cheese after this.
Your frenetic energy is soothing to me as a homesteader who is still from New York 😂
This makes my day!
This is the exact kind of cheesemaking video I’ve been trying to find for months on youtube. So informative and easygoing! I am now ready to try out making my first hard cheese, thank you 🙏🏽!!
This is awesome. I just got into cheese making. I’m starting with the soft cheeses of course. But I feel that I won’t be able to make hard cheeses, at least not until I have a house. I have 2 golden retrievers in a 1 bedroom apartment and there’s just hair everywhere no matter how much I clean and I don’t have a place to age the cheese. I can’t wait to have a house where I could do it though. A lot of people like the convenience, but people like us love a challenge and the process. I graduated college a year ago, so I’m figuring out life on my own.. but I’m enjoying having a kitchen. Tomorrow I’m starting my homemade vanilla extract that will be ready in December for Christmas gifts and I’m also buying cacao beans to start making chocolate. I’m trying to find what cheese to make next, I’ve made mozzarella and ricotta so far and made lasagna with it
Making things is sooo gratifying. And getting your first apartment and making it your own nest is wonderfully satisfying. xo
CONGRATULATIONS!
To make the king of cheese you have to be a top cheesemaker.
The visible color and texture confirms your words!
Thank you!
I love this. Your team seem to be very passionate scientists. Amazing!
It looks amazing. I just want to say that we are a little like you we never follow a recipe to the letter we always wing it. We appreciate the way you try to fix things... Deja Vu 😅😅
Emotion from cheese making ... joy and tears and pasion. I am with you
That's outstanding!
OMG! What an adventure! Just made my first knob of mozza the other day, and already looking to level up. You are SO inspirational!!! thankyou SO much for this video!!! xxx
Yay! And congratulations on the mozzarella --- that's not an easy cheese!
Your dedication and tenacity is amazing Jennifer
This look delicious! Well done, you!
This is fascinating! No idea why your channel popped up in my feed but I'm glad it did. I think I should learn how to make cheese!
Your timing is impeccable. I’m working on a Gruyère, and its fur coat was pretty gnarly for a minute. I was sure pleasantly surprised to see how nice it looked when I gave it a brine bath. It’s looking like yours! Also, good news, I didn’t screw up the calcium chloride! Yay! It’s developing this pretty brown rind, which is dry, as well as an even coating of white fuzz. The fuzz retreats when I wash it, and comes back evenly between washings. Fingers crossed it isn’t disgusting when I cut into it many months from now. Maybe I’ll have a pig by then! 😂 I’m wondering if you’d mind sharing where you get your big clear aging containers. Thanks for another excellent video!
I still haven't quite managed to get that uniform white fuzz coating like you mention --- goals!! I bet it's gonna be good. (Glad you found the link!)
I got large containers off of Amazon!
You deserve so much more viewers I didn’t even realize I had watched the whole video. The cheese looks amazing you are great!
OMG I actually cried with you about CHEESE... Maybe I'm crazy but you are amazing
Definitely had a cheese tears moment 😂❤🎉
I’ve just started making a few cheeses. Don’t know how far I’ll delve into it but you are so inspiring- and fun bc you’re real !!! Thx
Yay! Take it a step at a time and just have fun with it. Brace yourself for disappointment, as well as TOTAL MAGIC. You can do it!
It looks amazing and thank you for a look at your notes! ❤️
Thanks for the prompt!
Congratulations Jennifer. That is gorgeous. I may have to try. And thanks for walking us through the rind washing, considerable fear factor for me.
Amazing g ood job. As soon as u cut it I knew it was done well!
awesome video! thank you. can’t wait to make this one.
Congrats. So awesome to watch.
Beautiful! I'm drying off two of my three milk goats for the season, and wishing I had started more cheeses to age for the winter, but I'm going to try to get a couple small (1-2 lb) wheels going at least... It's harder to play around when you're not getting gallons every day!
I just found your channel. That looks beautiful! I so want to taste it! Better yet, I want to make it! Looks amazing!
Thank you, and welcome to Milkslinger!
I literally felt your joy when you tasted it!! 😊😊😊 i recently acquired 2 jerseys and I’m milking and selling clean raw milk. I want to start making cheese! I will be following you!
Congratulations on the new Jerseys!!! Cows are so much fun!
@@jmilkslinger thank you!
Very impressive. Gruyère is one of my favourite cheeses and I would love to have tasted that one. Looked superb! I’ve only just started cheese making, but it’s great to learn that you can use yogurt as a starter culture! Would regular natural yogurt from the supermarket work? Thank you.
Yes, I think so! Choose a good-quality yogurt with live and active cultures.
Hello jennifer from greece🇬🇷 i learn many many things from you 😊.. i hope god bless you thank you for everything😊🧀
You are so welcome!
So I've watched this video a few times and finally made this cheese. I also took a "page from your book" and went hands in on my stiring for the first time! Didn't have clabbard, so I used thermo c and p. Shermani. Hopefully it'll come out as great as yours! BTW what a great view out your kitchen window.
Oh, wonderful --- I hope it works out for you!!
Never made cheese before but this looks really cool and I’m glad this popped up in my algorithm. I love making mead and bread; making cheese looks right up my ally!
Mead and cheese and bread are so related! I just started mead this summer and I'm gearing up to make my first batch of wine from our grapes!
Well done! That's an amazing result!!
Wow it truned out Amazing
Thank you!
Your passion and commitment is very impressive. 👍 good for you 🙂
💯 for so much patience
That was amazing and an amazing process! You did a great job, truly. I wish UA-cam would have give you better numbers bc you sincerely deserved it...the cheese came out BEAUTIFULLY!
Hi Gary from the UK here grate video very interesting and informative keep them coming thank you for your videos you really put things in simple terms,
I watched a programme on cheese not sure what type of cheese it was a long time ago, but they painted the whole cheese with melted butter this creates a seal and a good skin on the cheese, I thought it might help with the mould problem.
Yes, I've read about using butter but haven't tried it yet...
@@jmilkslinger if my memory serves me right it makes the rind go like leather same as parmesan cheese
This was fascinating. Set up of the house is really interesting, going for a walk in the middle really active, reading a book while cooking, but the best bit is making a mistake correcting it. I’m just going on I’m not worrying about it. What a cool lady that is. Liked and subbed.
Aw, thank you!
جبنة لذيذة انتي تستحقي التشجيع
Looks perfect! Way to go!
Jennifer a question about brineing a hard cheese. Even though you added salt prior to pressing would you still brine. Enjoy your videos, very informative. Thanks
Usually, if you add salt before pressing, that's the extent of the salting process --- there's no need to brine.
Wow ! I love the energy in your videos❤ i just made my first hard cheese and i wanna learn learn learn ❤
It's addictive!
Oh I’m jealous, I would love to make cheese. My raw milk source is a 2 hr round trip drive to the Amish and sometimes they don’t have any but I can’t call them ahead of time to be sure. It’s just a pain so I make simple cheese when I get milk.
I love your videos !!!
I grew up in St. Louis where there was a department store called Famous Barr. They had a small lunch place that served French onion soup that was dripping with baked and bubbly Gruyere cheese. Loved how you guarded your prize from your hungry child. I see how it is there. The family gets the scratch and dent cheeses, right??
You can wash the mould off cheese with wine or if you don't have beer.
Love your videos, Jennifer!!!! Soooo so awesome to watch
Also I felt like I could cry with you on this one! So inspiring
I'm so glad you like them!
هل اضفت الرنيت عند90 ام عند85 مع كل الشكر على كل ماتقدمين فكل شى رائع
I'm not sure what you mean by ringtone?
very nice.
Your Gruyere belong to perfect recipe books
That looks to die for! Well done! I think the rind looks spectacular and the colour of the paste is amazing. Truly there are no words!!! I'd love to try making my own clabber (but not from goats milk) and I can only buy cultured buttermilk here - would that work do you think? Love to hear your view.
No, cultured buttermilk would not work for clabber, but you can use it to culture mesophilic cheeses!
@@jmilkslinger
@@jmilkslinger Sadly its what I thought and I have used both buttermilk and yogurt instead of commercial cultures at times.
Beautiful!
That is awesome!
I am so glad I found your channel ! You should publish your notes and recipes ! Also, how many goats and cows do you have ?
Currently 3 cows (milking 2), 3 calves, one heifer (living on another farm), and 1 irritating do-nothing goat which belongs to my younger son.
I love your house. Its cute and comfy.
Delicious video.
Unfortunately the volume is painfully low on my phone. I kept going to sleep, but it is 2.30 a.m.
Jennifer!.... i watched this whole video salivating at the edge of my seat to see the end result...lol ... awesome job.... i also saw the Cujada video and made some since i always add salt to my mozza and ricotta anyway...it is YUMMY!... made a rice and beans with with my a saute sauce from my lil backyard food garden to have with Cujada kinda like what you shown at the end of that video and WOW!... anyhoo QUESTION!... can i give back life to pasteurized whole milk by adding Buttermilk to it ? and would be like a cup of buttermilk to a gallon of whole milk? asking for a friend :)
I have not tried to turn pasteurized milk into buttermilk via cultured buttermilk, but according to this video you can!
www.seriouseats.com/diy-cultured-buttermilk-recipe
thx for that quick response :)
... making the buttermilk substitute from yogurt or sour cream i'm ok with... but after my first comment ...
i was searching for RAW farm i finally found one an hour away that make RAW Jersey milk weekly ...at 12bux a gallon mind you ...sigh... but i'm going out there for fresh air and befriend a cattle rancher's daughter...that could end up fun lol :)
@@masonlifestyle3003 $12/gallon?! That's wicked expensive!!!
Congratulations !
AND YET, though not done with the cheese, I want to know more about the sourdough, overnight pancake batter.
Caring For Cheese - by opinionated Frenchman: (to be read with a thick French accent)
"Sheese is a living sing. You do not put eet in ze refridgerateur, joost as you do not poot your cat in zee refridgerateur!."
Like you, I'm all about difficult hobbies. Winemaking, shoemaking, sourdough baking, archery. gardening, woodcraft... 70 now and am contemplating a cheese fridge and the making of aged cheeses. It never ends! - nor should it.
At the end: color, perfect - tears justified.
...and on to your next video thanks
That quote --- love it!!
(Pssst --- most recipes can be found at jennifermurch.com)
Fabulous video of a true cheese maker. Have you tried aging your cheeses by washing them with the salty whey? I find this works 🤔
My light brine (the one I wash cheeses with) is salty, but not SALTY salty. How long does your salty whey last in the fridge?
I'm making cheese every day(not the quantity you make as I've only three nannies) so after I've salted the curds I use the residual salty whey to wash cheeses that are starting to mould so I'm not actually storing the salty whey... However I have friends who store the unsalted whey in their fridges for a week to make their smoothies so I'd check it out.
It's traditional in Portugal to wash all the cheeses in whey and it does give them a skin similar to your beautiful gruyere.
I use clabber also and each week make a fresh jar with a tablespoon sized slosh of warm whey into fresh milk as I find the clabber gets runner as the days go by. My old neighbour just 'back slops' each day so a cup of yesterday's whey goes into the fresh milk to culture it.
Absolutely loved your demonstration. Many thanks from the mountains of Portugal 😊
Great job! Question...where did you get your cheese press please?
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Good job, Hon. Truth be known I kinda thought you were going to poison yourself. Nice vid.
23:02 the auto-generated subtitles say “But I can’t give a whole video on just Asian Jesus because I’m so unscientific about it.” HAHA 😂
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Looks awesome. Been wanting to try my own noodles. How long did you cook your sauce?
What sauce?
@ I am sorry I was commenting on a different video and yours came up in my feed while I was in the middle of commenting, so some how it ended up on your video.
I will check out this video though. I loved your video on cultured butter.
Try a wood box on the next one
Hell ya so good!!!
Huge money saver by making your own like this, id assume.
In some ways, yes, but cows ain't cheap!
I enjoy your videos :) Any plans to try a Parmesan cheese?
Thank you, and yes! I have one video in production but it'll be months until it's complete since Parmesan has such a long aging time.
I'm stoked for the video!!@@jmilkslinger
If you don't have wrenant what can u use in replacement?
Unfortunately, rennet is a requirement for many cheeses.
Question: is it possible you wipe the cheese down with a salt dusting to keep the mold from forming?
I think so, yes, but I'd have to do more research before I answer definitively because I've never done that myself....
How would you go about the ageing process using the vac pack method after brining? I want to use the vac pack method if simpler. Thanks alot for the hard work and explanation of all the details
Just vac pack it and age it at 55°F, flipping every few days. It won't have the same depth of flavor or a pretty rind, but it will still be a good cheese.
Thanks for the quick reply. Really helps as its currently in the press at 60lbs for 4-5hrs after flipping twice(one hour before each at 40lbs). It's a big one so quite scared. Made from just over 11gallons of fresh milk😅. In the large deluxe mold from new england.
Anyway to my question, at what stage should I vac pack it? After the first couple days of salting to form a rind and wiping off any mold or right after brining or any other advice?
Why I'm so scared is my first one cracked and completely disintegrated while in the brine and I have no idea why😢 my brine was nicely saturated and all so don't know why and found no help online whatsoever.maybe because I brine it in my cheese cave (55F) instead of room temp,I don't know so really hoping for this one not to do the same.thanks so much for your videos and help through then n on here.
@@omarmahmood611 After brining, air dry the cheese for several days, flipping twice a day, until it is dry to the touch. (Sometimes I let my cheeses air dry for 2 days and sometimes for 2 weeks --- there's not an exact deadline.) Then vac pack and age!
Thank you so much.really appreciate it
Hat do you do with leftovervwhey?
Feed it to the pigs!
On your video it says Clabber is raw milk that has been thickened and soured. Do you use something to thicken it?
No --- it clabbers itself. (if you want to understand it better, you can check out the whole video I did on making clabber!)
I'd love a link for that giant whisk!
Here you go! amzn.to/43WlYcJ
Aging box, soak in baking soda water to remove smell.
I have been making fresh cheeses for awhile now. Just getting ready to convert a wine or mini fridge into a cheese cave I've noticed you haven't made feta or atleast made a video on feta? Feta is perfect for beginners and homemade feta blows the doors off store bought and it's very easy and has a more creamy texture then store bought. Any plans on a feta video? 😊
Feta is my nemesis! I've tried it a couple times and both times it failed. How ridiculous is that?! It's on my to-make list, and I WILL be conquoring it soon. Do you have a good recipe to recommend?
@@jmilkslinger i watched the gavin webber video. I'm surprised after all the other cheeses you made with such higher difficulty ratings! The lipase is key to the feta i think plus you age it in brine with a little calcium chloride in the fridge no cave needed! Give it another go? Every time i make it i watch his video as a refresher.
He has has more than one video on feta i believe?
@@johnhowaniec5979 Oh, I'm definitely going to give it another go one of these days!
How do you know its gruyere flavored cheese? What are the decernments of additions to recipes that develop the types of cheeses? Confusing for me. Thank you.
Good question! This has been an ongoing confusing thing, for me, too.
Every cheese is different and "official" cheeses as we know them (like Parmesan, Gruyere, Jarlsberg, etc) are highly regulated and industrialized. Small tweaks make big changes. The more scientific a maker gets, and the more specific with notes, the more uniform the product. I'm not there, though (and don't really want to be).
I'm afraid my answer probably doesn't clear anything up for you, though...
@@jmilkslinger I'm with you! I'm also reading of many substitutes for rennet and penicillin inoculations.
Hello again, I am all ways folw your videos, my I now what is the deferent with microbial rennet and animal rennet ?
Microbial is produced from fungi, yeast, or mold, so it's good for vegetarian rennet. I've never used it, though...
I am using that that's y my chees is test little bitter test
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Extra unnecessary work.
So because, in the past, people would making a daily cheese from the daily milking, the flipping and salt rubbing would be done for several cheeses yeah?
I guess that, as it is for us, it would depend on how much kitchen space and how many cows they had, as well as the season. But yes, if you have more space and more milk, then you'd be doing more cheeses.
Does it taste like a Smokey guyere??
I've never had a smokey gruyere, so I don't think so. The natural rind does give it a bit of umami flavor though. It's soooo good!
It looks great, really. Luckily, you didn't vacpack it... Where dud you keep those plastic containers? What temperature? Looks like the humidity during that period was too high and caused all your problems. But the final result, chapeau bas...😉🙂
The downstairs bedroom, mostly, I think. Without going back and looking, I imagine the temp was probably between 50 and 60.
@@jmilkslinger my Gruyere is almost 13 months old, I've been keeping it in a cheese cooler all the time. A couple more months and I'll think about opening it...
@@yarkorab The suspense!!!!
Bravo! But does it taste like a Gruyère?
Maybe this is THE cheese your terroir wants you to make.
And is it just me, or do any other cheese makers find the sound of a cheese going in and out of a mold . . . satisfying?
I'm not an expert on Gruyère, but I think the texture is right, and the flavor is close, or at least in the same vicinity.
Do you have a regular cheddar cheese video
My go to is the Derby Cheddar.
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@@jmilkslinger thanks so much
Sorry I only just subscribed so I don’t know… do you have your own dairy cows or do you buy your milk?
We currently have 3 family milk cows.
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