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Every quarter or so, we do an "International Dinner Night" with a bunch of friends. We choose a country and make (as much from scratch as possible) the classic foods from that country. This time it's "England" and so I decided to make a Stilton. I used the recipe from Karlin's "Artisan Cheesemaking At Home".

So far it seems like everything went well; unlike last weekend when I forgot the MA4000 culture (DOH!). I just got done rubbing and smoothing the outside. Now it's into the cave to grow some mold.

Ohh I'll keep my eye on this one.

Looks good Gobae.
John 

What size is that cheese?

4.5" dia x 4" high

Interesting, that's the smallest blue I've seen next to a cambozola.  Should be interesting to watch develop.

Well, we cracked the Stilton open on Sunday and here was the end result.



The "blue" mold was more of a grey-brown, it tasted just like the Stilton I bought from the local cheesemonger (I had never had Stilton before so I bought some a few weeks ago for comparison), over 1/2# was consumed with gusto in little more than an hour, and even people who claimed "I don't like blue cheese" came back for more. So I'm calling this a success!

Looks fantastic.  I especially like the nice clean skewer line of blue mold and the vericose veins around it

AC4U

I think it looks fantastic.  I like the spidering also.  AC4U from me also!

Looks great!!  AC4U!!

Lovely! AC4U.

Very nice! Cheese to you!

Very impressive blue veins & chunkability... Have a cheese.

-Boofer-

Great looking cheese  . I am 2 weeks into my first Stilton and I can only hope that it comes out looking like this one.

Quote from: Gobae on June 01, 2016, 03:12:37 AM
Well, we cracked the Stilton open on Sunday and here was the end result.
  even people who claimed "I don't like blue cheese" came back for more. So I'm calling this a success!

Ahhh , the blues , my favorite cheeses , funny , I find that most people think they don't like blue cheese , and once you get them to try some , they like it !

That one looks fantastic , Have another , from me !