Rennet, Animal - Where to Buy?

[merlin]

I need your help.  Does anyone know of a good internet source to get renant?

Thanks

[Herb N Cheddr]

Hi M,

I think it depends on where you live.  I get animal rennet from Glengarry Cheesemaking and Dairy supply in Canada but they only ship in Canada.

If you live in the US, try http://www.dairyconnection.com/rennet.htm.


Herb N Cheddr

[merlin]

Thanks for the lead

[Cheese Head]

Merlin

I've listed several cheese making supply stores by country here.

From Glengarry's website, I believe they also ship to US out of NY State.

That said, the last I bought here in US was microbial (none animal) based rennet off of ebay for cheap. Info posted here.

Great to see you are getting into cheese making .

[bec1986]

i read somewhere that the vegitarian rennet is a clone off the animal stuff take some from a calf stomach and inject it into a netutral bacteria and it multiplies as rennet, will look for a link but its the same stuff just they can concentrate the vegetable stuff.
.....strange that they call it vegetable rennet was my first thought maybe its a vegetarian bacteria lol.

[Cheese Head]

bec1986, I posted some info on "rennet" here. Seems like rennet is a word we and industry uses but actually the active ingredient is chymosin and I agree, it's kind of grey if you could call that vegetarian.

[SalMac]

I suppose cloned/duplicated vs obtained from a killed animal is an important differential but John I agree.

[Cheese Head]

Yep from the info I've read it is a piece of gene of calf spliced into genes of bacteria and yeast, so what constitutes vegetarian? Things become blurred, anyway, personally I still like the idea of using that "rennet" than calf made "rennet".