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Step 2Heat it up
If you've never heated milk before, it's important to know that if you heat it too fast, it will start to burn on the bottom of the pot. To bring it to a simmer, it's best to keep the heat down to about 50-60%.
I don't follow my own advice, and use full heat, because I don't want to wait.
While the milk is heating, be sure to stir it occasionally, so it doesn't burn. Also, if you're heating more than one or two cups of milk, measure the vinegar out into the cup while the milk is warming. This is personal preference, as it makes it easier to pour the vinegar in all at once, rather than measuring it out in a hurry.
During this time, you may need to pander to a needy cat, if one happens to be around.
When the milk nears boiling, you will notice a foam forming on top of the milk, as well as a little noise coming from the pot. Steam will start to appear too.
Once you reach this point, turn off the heat, pour in the vinegar, and stir. You will immediately notice chunks of casein forming. Stir it for another thirty seconds or so, for good measure.
I don't follow my own advice, and use full heat, because I don't want to wait.
While the milk is heating, be sure to stir it occasionally, so it doesn't burn. Also, if you're heating more than one or two cups of milk, measure the vinegar out into the cup while the milk is warming. This is personal preference, as it makes it easier to pour the vinegar in all at once, rather than measuring it out in a hurry.
During this time, you may need to pander to a needy cat, if one happens to be around.
When the milk nears boiling, you will notice a foam forming on top of the milk, as well as a little noise coming from the pot. Steam will start to appear too.
Once you reach this point, turn off the heat, pour in the vinegar, and stir. You will immediately notice chunks of casein forming. Stir it for another thirty seconds or so, for good measure.
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First of all, when you heat milk, it will rise (very rapidly too) at one point. Is that what you call boiling?
I used 1% (organic) milk. I pored some into hdpe container after it rose. I may have used a foaming whip while it was heating. and did use foaming whip after I pored into container. Straining it had very little and very thin clumps of goop. Metal strainer instead of coffee filter prob didn't help much. No amount of reheating and adding more vinegar helped in getting a useful amount of goop.
As I write this, I realize that foaming whip probably broke down the cassein into smaller than metal strainer holes.
This process needs the milk to be simmering. There will be a little bit of foam at the edge of the pot, but not much. You definitely shouldn't see it bubbling.
Once you've hit that point, add the vinegar. Follow the steps I've laid out; they work quite well.
And, why are you using hdpe? That's already plastic...petroleum based, and nothing like what we're making here. I'm also a little confused as to how you got liquid hdpe...I didn't think that was something readily available outside of an industrial facility (nor something you would be handling in the kitchen...)
I still don't understand what simmering milk is.
When you Heat milk, it will eventually rise up and thicken, and quicklyoverflow the pot. Simmering must mean the very light bubbling thatoccurs just before this stage?