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Title: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: umgowa on March 16, 2010, 04:45:02 PM

I am a brand new cheese maker.  And am about to make my first batch.  I have been told that you can sometimes buy rennet at the grocery store in the pudding area.  Is that correct?  Also I think I recall someone saying you can get it is some department at Whole Foods.  Does anyone know anything about this?  It would be a lot easier to buy it at my local store than to get it on line.  Thanks for any help here.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: velward on March 16, 2010, 06:31:08 PM

The junket rennet you can find in the pudding section is not at all like cheese rennet. I don't know about whole foods.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: wharris on March 16, 2010, 06:44:47 PM

While it may be easier to get at the store, my sense is that most folks quickly decide to buy rennet online.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: MrsKK on March 16, 2010, 09:16:35 PM

I started out using liquid rennet I purchased online and when I got low and found it locally, I went to using Junket rennet.  It worked just fine for me, but that said, I am glad that I started out with "real" cheese rennet so that I knew when I needed to adjust the amount of Junket because it isn't as strong.

Walmart quit carrying it here when they remodelled, so I bought powdered calf rennet online.  The nice thing about it is that it doesn't deteriorate in strength, as liquid rennet does.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: jackdag on March 16, 2010, 09:39:53 PM

Cheese liquid Rennet can be found in Natural Food Market

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: umgowa on March 16, 2010, 10:40:19 PM

Quote from: Wayne Harris on March 16, 2010, 06:44:47 PM

While it may be easier to get at the store, my sense is that most folks quickly decide to buy rennet online.

Does anybody have any recommendations for a good web site to go to for purchasing rennet on line?  Thanks.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: Cheese Head on March 16, 2010, 11:27:19 PM

Our listing of online stores here (http://www.cheeseforum.org/Links/Stores_Cheese_Making_Supplies.htm), some reviews here (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/board,189.0.html), they seem to all be good.

Title: Re: Rennet - At Your Local Grocery Store
Post by: DeejayDebi on March 17, 2010, 02:07:36 AM

I used junket for years and still do on occation. It works fine but use should use 2 to 3 times more than most recipes list for commercial cheese rennets. I believe Whole Foods sells the stuff in the blue box. They do here anyway. I forget what it's called.

I usually order mine online from Dairy connection in the winter if I run out they sell the veggie rennet locally but I don't like it as well.