It's now soaking in a saturated brine solution. I made this cheese with 3 gallons of 2% milk and 4 8-oz. cartons of whipping cream with a meso starter and calcium chloride with no color added. 3/4 rennet tablet. I wish that I made pictures of the curd when I cut it as it was very firm and turned out a good yield. I let the milk sit for an hour after adding the starter then added the rennet. In an hour it was ready to cut. Then I let it rest for 10 mins. then starting the raising the temp to 100F which took a little over an hour from 86 deg. The temp was raised by heating the pot in a sink of 100 deg. water and alternating with heating a few cups of whey in a pot to 120F and slowly adding it back to the curds. After holding 100 for another 30 mins. I drained the whey off gradually as I stirred in cold water and cooled the curds down to 82F. Then the curds were salted with 1-1/2 oz salt then packed into the hoop that I made the other day. When I take the cheese out of the brine I'll get a picture of it posted.
Looks good. Let us know how it tastes.
That a nice looking cheese there Timnbama!
Now that's a Colby!!!! :D
That is a beautiful looking cheese. It will be fun to watch how that one ages!
That's a nice hunk of cheese!I gotta get started on my new cheese mold! ;D
Maybe that'll make a slice or two on a sandwich. It has a different smell today compared to yesterday which was more like a lactic acid smell to me yesterday. Plus the surface is starting to dry off now so maybe in a day or 2 it'll be ready to go to aging. I hope to make another one soon but I've got to get all of my worm beds tended to first. Tomorrow is watering day for all of them after I deliver a few cups to a store.
Quote from: timnbama on May 24, 2009, 03:59:13 PM
It's now soaking in a saturated brine solution. I made this cheese with 3 gallons of 2% milk and 4 8-oz. cartons of whipping cream with a meso starter and calcium chloride with no color added. 3/4 rennet tablet. I wish that I made pictures of the curd when I cut it as it was very firm and turned out a good yield. I let the milk sit for an hour after adding the starter then added the rennet. In an hour it was ready to cut. Then I let it rest for 10 mins. then starting the raising the temp to 100F which took a little over an hour from 86 deg. The temp was raised by heating the pot in a sink of 100 deg. water and alternating with heating a few cups of whey in a pot to 120F and slowly adding it back to the curds. After holding 100 for another 30 mins. I drained the whey off gradually as I stirred in cold water and cooled the curds down to 82F. Then the curds were salted with 1-1/2 oz salt then packed into the hoop that I made the other day. When I take the cheese out of the brine I'll get a picture of it posted.
Wow that is a nice looking Colby. Sooner or later my looks like that, hahah
Sedona