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Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« on: November 05, 2011, 12:21:26 PM »
Started making a batch of small semi-lactic cheeses with Gc & Pc, records and pictures below, advice appreciated.
Nov 4, 2011
  • 7:15PM Poured 2 US gallons store bought P&H whole cow milk into 3 gallon stockpot vat. Added 0.5 tsp of diluted CaCl2, few puffs of Geotrichum candidum & Penicillium candidum, 0.4 gr Danisco's Choozit Brand MM100 mesophilic starter culture and stirred in. Started heating slowly on gas stove and stirring to minimize hot spots.
  • 7:30PM Temperature at 82F, turned gas off. Added 0.1 gr of CHR Hansen freeze dried rennet (small amount) and stirred in, covered to let lactic curd and rennet coagulation build overnight.
Nov 5, 2011
  • 5:53AM Measured temp at 78F, still 10F above ambient! Very soft rennet curd, no whey on top or sides from lactic coagulation. Cut curd into 1 cm cubes. Ladled one scoop into small basket mold, cut curds fell apart and partly drained out bottom of mold. Recovered and set aside to allow more synersis/whey expulsion.
  • 9:30AM Ladled first scoop of soft mostly lactic coagulated curds into basket molds, added diced semi-dried ginger root to 4, slowly added more scoops of curds (& layers of ginger in 4) until full with excess into large Ricotta baskets. Went for 3 hours mountain bike ride.
  • 1:30PM Found curds draining nicely, as two large ricotta baskets of curds were thin, turned one into the other to form taller cheese.
  • 11:30PM Turned remaining ricotta basket cheeses, all still very moist.
Nov 6, 2011
  • 7:00AM Cheeses have drained further 1/4-1/2 inch in height, but still very moist and sticky to touch, smell OK, poured cold water down draining board underneath molds to rinse off drained curd bits and whey.
Nov 7, 2011
  • 6:00AM Cheeses have drained and shrunk a further 1/4 inch in height. Still very moist and sticky to touch, smell OK, tuned and placed on mats in cave. Ricotta and pyramid cheeses fell, small St Marcellin cylinder mold cheeses did not.
  • 6:00PM Small St Marcellin cheeses still not dropped as still sticky, banged on mats and got to drop.
Nov 12, 2011
  • Finally got new full size cheese fridge cave set up and bought some plastic boxes as high hummidity ripening boxes. Placed cheeses on mats inside, found that on bottom where most humid the Pc had bloomed but as didn't turn the cheeses they had grown into the mats, thus had problem removing, not good. Placed on new clean mats in ripening boxes in new cave.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 09:53:38 PM by John (CH) »


Cheese Head

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2011, 01:11:57 PM »
Cheeses draining slowly, still very moist, sticky, and thus messy.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 09:48:16 PM by John (CH) »

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2011, 12:25:12 AM »
Cheeses ripening, some dried out OK, others tooo moist, realized I forgot to dry salt - doh!

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2011, 02:24:35 PM »
Left town for two weeks so the remaining small cheeses got no attention, no turning, no humidity control.

Ate one small thin disk today, dried out but still good, way better than previous in picture above at 18 days!

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2011, 02:27:04 PM »
Ate another one today, also a small round disk but less dried out as in different ripening box in cheese cave fridge, beautifully runny!

To be fair, the ones with the semi-dried ginger didn't have a lot of ginger flavour or texture difference as the cheese flavour overpowered the ginger and the chunks of semi dried ginger softened in the moist cheeses.
« Last Edit: December 24, 2011, 02:35:01 PM by John (CH) »

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2011, 02:32:50 PM »
Ate 3 today with friend (along with some homemade beer):
1) Small disk in background of first picture was very dried out.
2) Last pyramid shape was beautifully gooey.
3) Small round disk was almost too gooey.

ayu.rosalie

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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2012, 06:59:59 AM »
Hi John,

Is this cheese similar to your semi-lactic #1 recipe (but with the GC and PC addition)?
 http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,2071.0.html,
On that one you hang the curd on butter muslin before putting it on the mold.

I made lactic cheese last week but turn out to be a disaster. I'll make another batch this week, hopefully it turns out as good as yours.

Ayu




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Re: Semi-Lactic Cow Gc & Pc Cheeses Make
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2013, 10:44:49 PM »
Hi John,

Thanks for such a great pictoral sharing of your make!  It was funny to see the beginning photos because I think I have all the same molds as you so it looked very much like one of my soft cheese makes.   :D  I'll try aging some of mine out and see what happens....have a lot of Valencay style and some Chaource for experiments with longer aging.