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A cheese for you as well LN.  Your comparisons with vac bagging is helpful.  Maybe we need to start up a "Blues Brothers" club .

Well I think it looks terrible.  It is obviously a total failure.
I think the best thing you can do is to bag it all up and post it to me and I will ensure it gets disposed of properly

Won't help Guiseppe.  I tried posting cheese to Alp.  Not fast enough and rediculously expensive.  We need to go and pick it up. LOL

Stop by and pick me up Al, I will help you guys get rid of that nasty lookin thing

Damn and I was going to fly over... looks like I miss out again.  

Quote from: awakephd on March 15, 2015, 03:48:28 PM
Larry,

I decided to try my hand at a Gorgonzola Picante this weekend, and in the process noticed a couple of interesting differences / questions -- when I checked Jim Wallace's recipe on www.cheesemaking.com, I noticed that he called for thermo (yoghurt) rather than meso -- but all other recipes used meso, including your use of FD. I decided to use a 4:2:1 combination of MA011, MD088, and TA061 -- essentially something like FD + a dash of thermo. We'll see how it comes out ...

I also noticed that you used 1/3 of the first day's curd on bottom and top, and 1/3 on the sides. For my make, it worked better to use 1/4 on bottom and top, and 1/2 on sides -- may be just a difference in the shape of my mold, which was a bit more squat than I would have liked. (It looks like the cheese will be about 2/3 as tall as it is wide.)

In any case, I hope my results will be half as good as yours!

My use of Flora Danica stems back to when I only had one culture. . Well, I had the small packets from NEC, but opted to go with something that had a name. It worked, so I kept on using it. One thing I like about it is that it supposedly creates a little more open structure because of gas production. I don't really know if it helps, but it doesn't seem to have hurt.

As far as the 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 distribution, I didn't weigh or measure it, I just SWAGd  it.

I'm looking forward to seeing yours.

Just getting caught back up on the forum. I went to Ohio for my brother's 60th.

Larry

Yes John, there's a lot of good blue activity going on here.

Ozzie, Al, H-K-J, Guiseppe, you guys crack me up.

Thanks everyone for the cheeses.

Larry