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GENERAL CHEESE MAKING BOARDS (Specific Cheese Making in Boards above) => INGREDIENTS - Milk Types, Formats, & Pre-Cheese Making Processing => Topic started by: lactoseintolerant on September 15, 2012, 04:52:04 AM
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I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate board for this, please let me know if it isn't, I'm new.
I am looking to make lactose free or nearly free soft cheeses like mozzarella and feta. I can't use lactaid milk because it is nuked to death. I have been pondering adding
either liquid lactase or using the powder from the pills and letting it sit for a day or two. The pills have more units of lactase, but they include a bunch of additives, including:
Microcrystalline Cellulose, Croscarmellose Sodium, Crospovidone, Magnesium Stearate, Colloidal Silicon Dioxide, Mannitol, and Sodium Citrate.
Are any of these like to cause issues with cheese making?
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Yes. The starter bacteria consumes lactose. basically your enzymaticly converting lactose to glucose. I dont think they can intake it directly (although they have their own inner cell convertion of lactose to glucose).
But, you could make a non starter (use citric acid) instant mozz. It wont work with feta as an integral part of the flavor is from the starter cultures.