Dead Easy Cream Cheese

Step 4: Yum.

Enjoy the fruits of your labour.

Comments

[beer20]

Great instructable, I've also read somewhere you can do this with whole milk. When you add the vinegar, stir and you will see the clumps start to form. Try adding dry herbs or spices into the mixture as well, before you pour it into the cheesecloth. Again, thanks so much for this. Now all I have to try to do is cold process soap...:-)

[karalalala]

Going to have to try it with whole milk next I think. My hypothesis is that it will come out great, you'll just get less cheese, due to the higher water content and lower fat content. I'll report back!

[Pilgrimm]

Many thanks for this wonderful, simple to follow 'ible!
FYI...If you have ever seen a video of hard cheese being made, the milk is heated in a huge stainless steel tank, which resembles a table. The heater is underneath. The milk fills up this "table/tank" to a height of about 8 to 12 inches. After the milk comes to the correct temperature, and the salt is added, rennet is added, and stirred in manually. (Check Wiki for rennet... comes from a cow's stomach...blecchh...) The mixture (not yet cheese) begins to solidify almost immediately! The next day, the mixture (which now consists of curd and whey) is scooped into molds (mostly of a wheel shape), and then put into a press, to press out the remaining whey. After some time has gone by, they remove the baby cheese from the mold, and coat it with wax, and then put it onto shelves to age. The different qualities of the raw milk, and the rennet, and the amount of salt, etc., makes the differences in regional cheeses.
I believe it was an episode of NOVA which was devoted to a nun from a Connecticut convent who has studied cheese-making.... it was a fascinating program. Check the PBS archives, you may find it. You might also find something helpful on YouTube...
Now I'm going to try to put some home-made cream cheese on my table for lots less green stamps than I pay those "Philly" people. Good luck, and thanks once more!

[Simply Logic]

i like :)
...this also works using lemon and lime juice, and is a great sweet version for cream cake filler

[karalalala]

Yeah! I was wondering if using cirtus juice would make like.. a mascarpone almost. Awesome

[badmoonryzn]

Holy Hanna,

That photo of the cheese and cracker looks delightful! I can almost taste it. It looks too good! I have got to try it myself now.

[clockdryve]

Cheese and Bread, cheese and bread...

I can get by on THAT alone :-p

[karalalala]

So with ya.

[flyingpuppy]

Yum is right!