Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today
A guide to making forty eight types of cheese from your own home, plus seventy five recipes to transform your creations into delicious dishes.

Just a short decade ago “American cheese” meant orange individually wrapped slices. In the rural renaissance of the new century, many Americans have discovered the world of real cheese for the first time. From warm, milky mozzarella and handcrafted goat cheese to complicated Monterey Jack and Gorgonzola, cheese makers and cheese lovers have a broad range of delicious fromage to explore and enjoy. For all of the adventurous cheese lovers who want to make the leap to cheese makers, Cheese It! reduces the mysteries of transforming a couple of gallons of milk into a couple of pounds of delicious cheese. Artisanal cheese maker and author Cole Dawson leads the whey for beginners through the art and science of cheese making, including detailed advice on milk, coagulants and curds, equipment, safety, and more.

Fresh Cheese for Today

Begin with homemade butter, cream cheese, and sour cream, and then dip into the perfect starter: soft unripened cheeses such as paneer, Chévre, feta, mascarpone, and ricotta. Discover the brine bath and make everyone’s favorite stretched cheese-mozzarella-as well as scamorza, Mexican Asadero, and provolone.

Hard Cheeses Made Easy

Enter the great aged beauties of the cheese world, Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and Pecorino Romano from the north and south of Italy. Create fondue beyond compare with your own Swiss Gruyére and climb to the top of Montasio, the Alpine cousin of Asiago.

Moving On to Semi-Hard Cheese

Cover salting, pressing, and molding curds; the processes of aging and air-drying; and waxing techniques. Try your hand at the mighty Cheddar and its many variations; then move beyond Cheddar to Cantal, Monterey Jack, Cotswold, Caerphilly, and Caciotta. Learn how to wash curds and produce your own Colby, Gouda, and Edam.

Mold on Your Molds

Learn about washing rinds, the aging process, and the introduction of good bacteria. Make Muenster, Brick, Raclette, Tilsit, and Taleggio at home, plus bloomy rind favorites Camembert, Brie, Chaource, and Crottin. Tackle stinky blue cheeses such as Stilton, Roquefort, Fourme d’Ambert, and Gorgonzola.
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Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today
A guide to making forty eight types of cheese from your own home, plus seventy five recipes to transform your creations into delicious dishes.

Just a short decade ago “American cheese” meant orange individually wrapped slices. In the rural renaissance of the new century, many Americans have discovered the world of real cheese for the first time. From warm, milky mozzarella and handcrafted goat cheese to complicated Monterey Jack and Gorgonzola, cheese makers and cheese lovers have a broad range of delicious fromage to explore and enjoy. For all of the adventurous cheese lovers who want to make the leap to cheese makers, Cheese It! reduces the mysteries of transforming a couple of gallons of milk into a couple of pounds of delicious cheese. Artisanal cheese maker and author Cole Dawson leads the whey for beginners through the art and science of cheese making, including detailed advice on milk, coagulants and curds, equipment, safety, and more.

Fresh Cheese for Today

Begin with homemade butter, cream cheese, and sour cream, and then dip into the perfect starter: soft unripened cheeses such as paneer, Chévre, feta, mascarpone, and ricotta. Discover the brine bath and make everyone’s favorite stretched cheese-mozzarella-as well as scamorza, Mexican Asadero, and provolone.

Hard Cheeses Made Easy

Enter the great aged beauties of the cheese world, Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and Pecorino Romano from the north and south of Italy. Create fondue beyond compare with your own Swiss Gruyére and climb to the top of Montasio, the Alpine cousin of Asiago.

Moving On to Semi-Hard Cheese

Cover salting, pressing, and molding curds; the processes of aging and air-drying; and waxing techniques. Try your hand at the mighty Cheddar and its many variations; then move beyond Cheddar to Cantal, Monterey Jack, Cotswold, Caerphilly, and Caciotta. Learn how to wash curds and produce your own Colby, Gouda, and Edam.

Mold on Your Molds

Learn about washing rinds, the aging process, and the introduction of good bacteria. Make Muenster, Brick, Raclette, Tilsit, and Taleggio at home, plus bloomy rind favorites Camembert, Brie, Chaource, and Crottin. Tackle stinky blue cheeses such as Stilton, Roquefort, Fourme d’Ambert, and Gorgonzola.
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Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today

Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today

by Cole Dawson
Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today

Cheese It!: Start Making Cheese at Home Today

by Cole Dawson

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A guide to making forty eight types of cheese from your own home, plus seventy five recipes to transform your creations into delicious dishes.

Just a short decade ago “American cheese” meant orange individually wrapped slices. In the rural renaissance of the new century, many Americans have discovered the world of real cheese for the first time. From warm, milky mozzarella and handcrafted goat cheese to complicated Monterey Jack and Gorgonzola, cheese makers and cheese lovers have a broad range of delicious fromage to explore and enjoy. For all of the adventurous cheese lovers who want to make the leap to cheese makers, Cheese It! reduces the mysteries of transforming a couple of gallons of milk into a couple of pounds of delicious cheese. Artisanal cheese maker and author Cole Dawson leads the whey for beginners through the art and science of cheese making, including detailed advice on milk, coagulants and curds, equipment, safety, and more.

Fresh Cheese for Today

Begin with homemade butter, cream cheese, and sour cream, and then dip into the perfect starter: soft unripened cheeses such as paneer, Chévre, feta, mascarpone, and ricotta. Discover the brine bath and make everyone’s favorite stretched cheese-mozzarella-as well as scamorza, Mexican Asadero, and provolone.

Hard Cheeses Made Easy

Enter the great aged beauties of the cheese world, Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and Pecorino Romano from the north and south of Italy. Create fondue beyond compare with your own Swiss Gruyére and climb to the top of Montasio, the Alpine cousin of Asiago.

Moving On to Semi-Hard Cheese

Cover salting, pressing, and molding curds; the processes of aging and air-drying; and waxing techniques. Try your hand at the mighty Cheddar and its many variations; then move beyond Cheddar to Cantal, Monterey Jack, Cotswold, Caerphilly, and Caciotta. Learn how to wash curds and produce your own Colby, Gouda, and Edam.

Mold on Your Molds

Learn about washing rinds, the aging process, and the introduction of good bacteria. Make Muenster, Brick, Raclette, Tilsit, and Taleggio at home, plus bloomy rind favorites Camembert, Brie, Chaource, and Crottin. Tackle stinky blue cheeses such as Stilton, Roquefort, Fourme d’Ambert, and Gorgonzola.

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ISBN-13: 9781620080092
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 319
File size: 34 MB
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About the Author

A dedicated cheese maker and home cook, Cole Dawson lives in New York's Hudson River Valley, an area rich in farmstead cheese making. He writes about the renaissance in American cheese making and the growing taste for local cheeses for many print and online magazines. Dawson leads the whey for beginners through the art and science of transforming a few gallons of milk into a few pounds of delicious cheese with entertaining asides about how to cultivate "good" mold while avoiding "bad" mold.

Table of Contents

HOBBY FARM HOME: MAKING CHEESE By Cole Dawson

Chapt. 1 A New American Revolution

Chapt. 2 Old World Style, New World Flavor

Chapt. 3 Milk Basics

Chapt. 4 How Milk Becomes Cheese

Chapt. 5 Equipment and Food Safety

Chapt. 6 Soft, Unripened Cheese Paneer Chèvre Feta Neufchâtel Cream Cheese Crème Fraîche Mascarpone Whey Ricotta Gjetost Mysost

Chapt. 7 Stretched Curds Traditional Mozzarella Short-Cut Mozzarella Scamorza Asadero Provolone

Chap. 8 Semi-Hard Cheese Traditional Cheddar Goat’s Milk Cheddar Sage Derby Cantal Monterey Jack Cotswold Caerphilly Caciotta

Chap. 9 Washed Curds Colby Gouda Edam Leiden

Chap. 10 Washed Rinds Muenster Brick Raclette Tilsit Taleggio

Chap. 11 Bloomy Rinds Camembert Goat’s Milk Brie Aged Neufchatel Chaource Crottin Selles-sur-Cher Chap. 12 Blue Cheese Roquefort Fourme d’Ambert Stilton Gorgonzola

Chap. 13 Hard Cheese Parmesan Pecorino Romano Swiss Gruyère Montasio

Chap. 14 Serving Your Cheese

Appendices Glossary Resources Cheese Diary Bibliography

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