Time to Crack the Jack!

[Lancer99]

This is one of the first cheeses I made, a Jack, almost eight months ago. I used yogurt, certainly not necessarily a bad thing . . . I've made some good cheeses with yogurt.

I didn't use make sheets back then, and don't recall which recipe I used, so I'll never know why things went so horribly wrong.

It was ready to be cracked.





The paste was soft but crumbly, and looked appetizing:



But, you ask, how did it taste?

Nasty, sour and bitter, foul. So terrible that I involuntarily spat it out into my hand.

A couple of hours later, I kept thinking, "It can't really have been that bad, can it?" and tried again. I didn't want to spit into my hand again, so brought along a small plate.

I used the plate.

By far my worst cheese ever, and only the third one that went into the garbage.

They can't all be successes!

-L

[MacGruff]

What a shame. The outside picture looked so nice too!

[DrChile]

Is there place where we can post our failures - I ask here as I have one...

Trent

[mikekchar]

Boofer has a great thread somewhere.  I can't remember which section, unfortunately.  There are some pretty awesome failures in there.

Anyway, it looks to me that you got a secondary fermentation going in there.  Possibly it didn't drain well.

[Lancer99]

Boofer's thead:  https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,10888.0.html

L