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Offline Al Lewis

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2015, 02:29:53 AM »
I made it for the wife and, no, she hasn't.
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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2016, 08:13:43 PM »
Greetings Al, Were you pleased, you wife, with the Halloumi? Did she fry it or eat it with bread, olives and wine. Was it better than what she had, that she'd eaten before, if she had?

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2016, 09:25:10 PM »
Ya'... halloumi can get ridiculously salty ... I made one batch and never again ... Still waiting to hear from someone that found one that works well and balanced... Both Mad Mille and Gavin Green have recipes (don't do the mad Mille one )

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2017, 06:41:47 AM »
I have just stated making some goats milk halloumi again, but this time I decided to try a 12% salt brine instead of the 20% that the recipe called for.   So far that has met with rave reviews.

However if the cheese is too salty, you know that you can soak it in milk for a couple of days to lessen the salt concentration.

Hope she liked the cheese. 

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2017, 04:20:17 PM »
Unfortunately, as reported, it was like chewing on a salt lick.  The brining called for in that recipe is totally wrong.  All future efforts will be with a lot less salt.
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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2017, 05:33:09 AM »
It was likely the most disappointed I ever was about a cheese where everything went right according to the recipe.  :P Now you know, though. +C for, uh, knowledge

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2017, 04:38:23 PM »
Yeah, not sure if this was a misprint or if Mary Karlin just doesn't know how to make Halloumi but she sure ruined my batch and considering what I had to pay for the goats milk I will be looking at her other recipes with a very skeptical eye. :o
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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2017, 04:47:34 PM »
Yeah, not sure if this was a misprint or if Mary Karlin just doesn't know how to make Halloumi but she sure ruined my batch and considering what I had to pay for the goats milk I will be looking at her other recipes with a very skeptical eye. :o

Just curious Al.  I haven't over salted a cheese yet but someday I might.  I saw a post that someone said soaking an over-salted cheese in milk will help to draw the salt out.  I know that country ham is soaked prior to eating for the same purpose.  What are your thoughts on this?

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2017, 04:45:05 AM »
I have seen the same suggestion for overly salty cheeses.
When I make Haloumi I simply vac pac it.
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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2017, 06:12:09 AM »
Yeah, not sure if this was a misprint or if Mary Karlin just doesn't know how to make Halloumi but she sure ruined my batch and considering what I had to pay for the goats milk I will be looking at her other recipes with a very skeptical eye. :o

I will say that on the whole I haven't been the most impressed with her recipes as far as being accurate to the types of cheese. I think after a while I just started checking multiple recipes for anything I mad and picking the stuff that seemed right from either one as a matter of course.

That said I'd be very surprised if that was intentional.

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2017, 02:16:38 PM »
Yeah, not sure if this was a misprint or if Mary Karlin just doesn't know how to make Halloumi but she sure ruined my batch and considering what I had to pay for the goats milk I will be looking at her other recipes with a very skeptical eye. :o

Just curious Al.  I haven't over salted a cheese yet but someday I might.  I saw a post that someone said soaking an over-salted cheese in milk will help to draw the salt out.  I know that country ham is soaked prior to eating for the same purpose.  What are your thoughts on this?
  Although this might be a viable means of rescuing a salty cheese, certainly sounds reasonable if the salt is on the surface, I strive to get them right the first time.  I also expect that anyone representing themselves as a professional, and writing a book, should make certain that the recipes contained in that book are correct.  I do recipes every week for Char Griller and actually eat everything I make prior to posting any recipes or videos.
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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2017, 01:01:07 AM »
Yeah, not sure if this was a misprint or if Mary Karlin just doesn't know how to make Halloumi but she sure ruined my batch and considering what I had to pay for the goats milk I will be looking at her other recipes with a very skeptical eye. :o


I will say that on the whole I haven't been the most impressed with her recipes as far as being accurate to the types of cheese. I think after a while I just started checking multiple recipes for anything I mad and picking the stuff that seemed right from either one as a matter of course.

That said I'd be very surprised if that was intentional.

I found her book early in my cheesemaking adventures: luckily I also found the corrections to her recipes on her website: 2 1/2 pages of them...
http://www.artisancheesemakingathome.com/pdfs/ACMH-CORRECTIONS.pdf

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2017, 09:06:06 PM »
Even with the corrections, which missed a couple of things as far as I can tell, a lot of her makes just aren't accurate representations of the styles they claim to produce.

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Re: My First Halloumi
« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2017, 06:12:45 AM »
Hi..in Cyprus we get 2 kinds of Halloumi..The soft ones..and the harder ones..If you want them to be harder you put them in Brine..then..you wash it with water.
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