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Title: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: sunchild on March 26, 2012, 06:12:41 PM
Hello All!
I was really pleased to find this site as my fiance and I just started to get into cheese making.  I've already gotten some help from another Pensacola user who posted suggesting to go to Evermans Co-op Grocery to get raw milk, so thank you!

Our first adventure was with mozzarella, which turned out less than perfect.  I think that although publix milk doesn't say "ultra-pasteurized", it still may be.  Our cheese turned out more the consistency of butter than cheese even after icing it and cooling it about twice as long as the recipe called for.. It tasted fine but we had to smear it on the pizza we were making rather than cut slices. 

I'm waiting on our first batch using raw milk to cool down now, so hopefully that will turn out a little more cheese-like. 

I look forward to getting more involved in this hobby and learning from all of you!
Thanks!
-Sunchild
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: DeejayDebi on March 26, 2012, 10:32:57 PM
Welcome Sunchild. Many people have trouble with mozzarella for some reason. The traditional recipe works better and waiting is the hardest part. I have poor grade cheese if I use WalMart milk here even though it is not supposed to be UHT either. When you find a bad milk don't go back.
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: beechercreature on March 30, 2012, 05:20:49 PM
welcome to the site!
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: JimP on March 30, 2012, 05:22:27 PM
Welcome and have fun!
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: H-K-J on March 30, 2012, 06:06:19 PM
Welcome, any problems you have someone here will help, also searching the forum will bring up enough information to give you a headache  :o (JK)
Have fun I sure am :) 
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: Cheese Head on April 01, 2012, 12:11:06 PM
Welcome sunchild, nice city you are in, stopped off a couple times to go swimming on way back to Houston from Disneyworld with kids.
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: hoeklijn on April 01, 2012, 12:44:45 PM
Welcome to the forum!
Title: Re: Hello from Pensacola, FL!
Post by: JimP on April 01, 2012, 03:45:55 PM
Welcome Sunchild.
Enjoy those beaches. They're among the most beautiful in the world!