Monday, August 6, 2012

Cheese!


This is the real reason why we are here. 

Once the milk is heated rennet is added and the milk is  left to coagulate for about a 1/2 hour. Next the curd is cut vertically. 

Cutting the cheese with a "swiss harp"


Cutting the cheese horizontally with paddles




Draining the whey




Heated curds
Adjusting the hoops


Brandon filling the hoops (in the background is the cream cheese keeping warm)


Washing the cheese with salt and water while Brandon supervises
The aging room
Nettle hard cheese






Semi hard raw cows milk cheese with fenugreek