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CHEESE TYPE BOARDS (for Cheese Lovers and Cheese Makers) => RENNET COAGULATED - Pasta Filata (Pulled Curd) => Topic started by: BrianM on January 13, 2018, 01:07:50 AM

Title: First attempt, it didn't melt....
Post by: BrianM on January 13, 2018, 01:07:50 AM
So, in an effort to learn from my mistakes I'd like to get some ideas on what went wrong.  I posted in the introductions first:

https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,16824.0.html (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,16824.0.html)

where I sorta made it work with Junket, and I assume that's the main issue, but I don't know enough yet to know where to look for more info.  What happened is that I left it in balls for a couple days and then tore it into chunks for a Naples style pizza.  It browned and melted a Little, but not very much.  The taste was also kinda... flat?  Not bad, but like it was lacking.  I assume that adding lipase will help in that area (only have pasteurized and homogenized milk at my disposal).

Title: Re: First attempt, it didn't melt....
Post by: Gregore on January 13, 2018, 05:11:36 AM
no lipase .....

Acid set cheese will always be bland , you need to build flavor by adding cultures and letting them bring the ph down.