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Making Your Own Cheese at Home

Making cheese at home is something most people would never think of yet it is remarkably easy in principle. Home cheesemaking can be a fun hobby, a method of storing milk that would otherwise sour or even a business opportunity.

Making your own butter and cheese are amongst the self-sufficiency topics covered in our book, Low Cost Living.

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To make serious quantities of cheese you really need a source of low cost milk. This need not just be cows milk, goats milk makes fine cheese as does sheep's milk . If you know a local farmer or smallholder then you may well be able to get enough milk at an affordable price to make cheese in larger quantities.

We just make small amounts of cottage or curd cheese at home, sometimes the supermarket has over stocked and we pick up some reduced organic milk cheaply and convert it to cheese which can be frozen. If we find cream reduced then we grab that too and convert it into butter

These articles will give you all you know to make your own cottage cheese with no extra equipment apart from that you have in your kitchen and if you want to take it further, we've a series of articles by Katie Thear and you can buy her book, Cheesemaking and Dairying direct from this site here.

The process of cheesemaking is an ancient craft that dates back thousands of years, ever since man domesticated animals and found himself with milk going sour. Now we can buy a huge range of cheese from around the world in our local supermarket you might wonder why make cheese at home?

Well the answer is that is fascinating and you know exactly what has gone into the food on your table. Artisan cheeses are something special and you might have a few mistakes and disasters along the way but that's all part of the learning process.

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