I need your help. Does anyone know of a good internet source to get renant?
Thanks
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
Thanks for the lead
Merlin
I've listed several cheese making supply stores by country here (https://cheeseforum.org/Links/Stores_Cheese_Making_Supplies.htm).
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 (https://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php?topic=148.0).
Great to see you are getting into cheese making ;D.
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.
bec1986, I posted some info on "rennet" here (https://cheeseforum.org/Making/Rennet.htm). 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.
I suppose cloned/duplicated vs obtained from a killed animal is an important differential but John I agree.
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".