Butterkäse (Buttercheese)

[shay]

Hello all, am very new to the forum, for my first hard cheese is butterkase following Gavin Webber's from littlegreenworkshop.com.
It looks good its only been in the cave for about 4 weeks so far that and 4 more wheels all started about the same time (a month ago), the thing is i never get any mold on neither cheese Wheel, and from reading so much about maturing cheese on the wep i kinda got the idea is that mold is important to enhance flavor development. Any ideas what am l doing wrong or different??

[mikekchar]

No, you don't need mould on a butterkase.  I would intentionally keep it clean :-)  Sounds like everything is fine.  Someday it will probably start growing mould and you'll wonder how to stop it ;-)

[GortKlaatu]

Another fun thing to do (especially since Butterkase is a young cheese, so you'll see your results quickly) is to compare one recipe to another.  So I hope you really like Gavin's recipe, but I'd encourage you to try Danbo's recipe---that has turned out to be my favorite way to make Butterkase.

[dc-k]

I've made Gavin's recipe and found it to be delightful after only a couple of weeks. I'll certainly try Danbo's as well.

[GortKlaatu]

As I recall, it is a very different recipe from Gavin's.