my newest reblochon

[Gregore]

born on march 15 , they were kind of slow to take off and ripen but an 1 or 3 out side the cave each day finally drove the softness towards the center .  I also raised the cave temp to 58f to help out a little .   The make was per Iratherfly's recipe page  accept raw milk and the affiance was changed to 2 extra days before washing I like to see the geo powder forming not just the sliminess , an extra 4 or 5 days of washing , I also lowered the salt to 3 percent in the 2nd week of washing , then after wrapping they stayed in the cave  until ripe with a few vacations into the dining room  for a few hrs at a time.

I also have noticed that each time I make these the linens gets stronger and faster to take hold  and I have to baby them less each time.

hopefully the cheese forum will be the first to experiment with taste-o-vision

[Andrew Marshallsay]

That's a seriously good looking cheese. Have another to go with it.

[tarwin]

Incredibly similar result to mine which started just 2 days before this one. It sounds like it is not raw milk or did I read that wrong? You have obviously sampled it, What was it like?

[Stinky]

Yes, how did it taste? Was it linensy?

[amiriliano]

Looks perfect. AC4U

[Al Lewis]

That's one delicious looking cheese!!  AC4U!!

[OzzieCheese]

And I as well - bloomin Amazing looking cheese !!  This is what I have in my head I just wish my attempts come even close to this one.

-- Mal

[Gregore]

Yes raw organic milk , the taste is better than the ones my wife brought back from Switzerland ,   And yes quite linensy , and creamy goo goodness .  To bad they take so long to make as I could eat 1 of these per day.


I decided to make  reblochon and tommes  only  for the first year or so until I can get them perfect every time.  I think this is the best way to learn how my milk changes through out the year.

Also they are my 2 favorite cheeses

[Gregore]

I just noticed that I got 5 cheeses for 1 pic of  a cheese 5 to 1 ratio , I have to post more cheese porn.

Thanks every one.

[Danbo]

Nice - a cheese to you!

[Gregore]

Found some pics of the make I am eating right now made on March 15 and the last one from the make before that . They were made jan. 4th  so they were over 60 days from make  at the time of the pic , the ph meter croaked half way through that make so my ph numbers may have been off . the linens acted very sluggish and took for ever to make them gooiey

[Gregore]

Sorry ipad is loading pictures upside down , I can not figure out how to rotate them.

[awakephd]

Gregore, this seems to be a regular problem with pictures uploaded from an iPad. The picture file actually contains a rotation factor; if a person downloads the file, they may well show up correctly. But forum software often has trouble with rotated pictures; I use a program called image-magick to rotate (and optionally also to resize) pictures before uploading to forums. I've done this with your three pictures; here they are. (By the way -- what are the large red dots?)

[amiriliano]

@Gregore: what are the red circles?

[John@PC]

Pepperoni?