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Title: Mozzarella From Cow-Goat Milk - Curd Shattering
Post by: sixmanguru on April 24, 2010, 03:13:02 AM
I have become pretty proficient in making mozzarella with low pasturized cow's milk I get locally. Well I decided to get tricky this time and do a combo of cow and goat's milk. I used 1 gal cow and a 1/2 gal goat. The goat's milk I get low pasturized also locally.

I modified the recipe accordingly, but right off the bat I noticed, when  the curds were forming, they looked like the times when I wasn't paying attention only to realize I had used ultra pasturized milk by accident when I was first starting out.

That wasn't the case this time. The milk should've been fine. What else can do that?

Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: Mozzarella From Cow-Goat Milk - Curd Shattering
Post by: linuxboy on April 24, 2010, 03:46:52 AM
Did the curds shatter or was it just a weak set?
Title: Re: Mozzarella From Cow-Goat Milk - Curd Shattering
Post by: sixmanguru on April 24, 2010, 06:36:44 PM
shattered would be a good term to describe the look but they never set correctly

someone I spoke with mentioned possibly too much rennet... I used 1/4 tablet for a 1/2 gal goat and 1 gal of cow... could that be?

I went ahead and tried to finish it and it is pretty hard.