Thermophilic Culture Recipe
Thermophilic Cultures are the second most common in making cheese, more info is available here.
Many new hobby cheese makers use the following recipe until they graduate to store bought manufactured cultures.
Ingredients
- 0.5 liter/2 cups fresh live/active store bought unflavoured yogurt.
Directions
- Use yogurt as Thermophilic Starter Culture as per recipe.
- Pour excess into a full sized very clean ice cube tray and put into freezer.
- Once frozen, remove the cubes and put into a clean sealed labeled container or plastic freezer bag to reduce contamination and freezer burn.
- The resulting ice cubes are each ~30 ml/1 ounce of thermophilic starter. Add cubes (thawed) to your recipe as required.
Tricks & Traps
Tricks
- None.
Traps
- Not labeling freezer container/bag and 2-3 months later getting it confused with frozen Mesophilic or Yogurt Culture cubes.
- Not using clean ice cube trays, resulting in contamination of your culture.
