Tulum cheese

[Gürkan Yeniçeri]

Here are the pictures:


Has got sensory charactheristic of Tulum


The aroma is as close as it gets with cow's milk and lipase, usually sheep milk is used.

[JeffHamm]

Very interesting!  I've been waiting to see how this turned out.  From your descriptions the taste and smell is as you expected.  How about the texture and mouth feel, etc?  It certainly looks to be a success to me, but then, I have never seen this kind of cheese before.  Looks very good though.  Well done.

- Jeff

[Gürkan Yeniçeri]

Texture is a little different than tulum, it is buttery and higher fat is felt on the tongue, It is not as crumbly as the real tulum, may be I should have increased the lipase or use mixture of goat's and cow's.

I would like to make a low fat type of this cheese and get the crumbliness like real tulum and may be not add butter the next time.

Also a blue type of this cheese is higly desired in Turkey but the knit is very tight in my making and does not allow much air into it.

[JeffHamm]

Maybe use skim milk and increase the acidity of the make and it should be crumblier?  I'm not sure if changing the lipase would make it more crumbly, but I don't know that it wouldn't either.  Regardless, for a first go at it you appear to be very close to the target.  And yes, it doesn't look like one that would blue as you have it, but then, typically one pokes holes to get the veining, so it might work just fine.

- Jeff

[Gürkan Yeniçeri]

Yep, I will certainly try the blue version soon.

[JeffHamm]

I have images of this fresh cheese sausage, bristling with tooth picks, like some rare and exoctic porcupine snake that is hanging around  for the day when it is firm enough to pluck and allow for its blue blood to develope.

- Jeff

[Gürkan Yeniçeri]

Yep it's gonna look like       

[JeffHamm]

LOL!  Pinhead!  I remember when that first came out.

- Jeff

[Gürkan Yeniçeri]

Get ready a new one is coming

From wikipedia

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OK, enough diverting from the subject.