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After an interest in cheese I always wanted to make my own. This is my own adaptation of the recipe found here . I have used this recipe a few times and it didnt work as well as I hoped... So I took my time thinking through what changes I could make.
I hope this helps everyone that wants to make their own great mozzarella.
After an interest in cheese I always wanted to make my own. This is my own adaptation of the recipe found here . I have used this recipe a few times and it didnt work as well as I hoped... So I took my time thinking through what changes I could make.
I hope this helps everyone that wants to make their own great mozzarella.
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Whole Fat milk - I used one litre (uk) as this was just a quick batch for fun.
Citric acid
Rennet - liquid or tablet. I used a liquid version. Use as the packaging instructs
Bottle of Water
Cheese Cloth / White Muslin Cloth - For straining curds
Thermometer
Stainless Steel Pot
Large Bowl
Cheese Press (optional)
Salt
Citric acid
Rennet - liquid or tablet. I used a liquid version. Use as the packaging instructs
Bottle of Water
Cheese Cloth / White Muslin Cloth - For straining curds
Thermometer
Stainless Steel Pot
Large Bowl
Cheese Press (optional)
Salt
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80° F = 27° Celsius, and YES, there are intelligent life-forms outside of the U.S. :D
Why does every American think that every Scot is some ginger guy, standing on the banks of Loch Ness, playing the bagpipes in a kilt, drinking whiskey?
Scots are acctually very smart people.... We gave you the TV. We gave you phones.
Ellipses should always fall in three's...
acctually = actually.
Citing two inventors out of how many thousands of Scottish citizens does not make Scottish folk an intelligent group of people. That is just silliness. Like anywhere, you will find a mix of intelligent, belligerent, or down right retarded people.
Also, Alexander Graham Bell was in the USA when he invented the telephone. Technically, the USA gave them to us.
TV wasn't invented by any one individual. It was a collaborative venture. John Logie Baird (A Scot) used a bunch of other people's inventions together. So technically, the Scots didn't invent TV. Just saying.
They also invented the bag pipes and gave them away as party gifts , but never told the recipients it was all a really bad joke. They gave them to the English and the Irish who gave them to the Scott's , who never figured it out!
The only redeeming value is, using the same part of the animal as a Haggis , by creating a "Craze" for more "pipes" and such , it left LESS for making Haggis.
Ok ok so lets stop the madness and move on to food .
What is the end cost per pound for this stuff. I pay about 3-4 bucks a pound for really nice mootsie that make great pies. (pizza, arichoke, spinach ).
I make lotsa stuff by hand from scratch and if I am to do this it must be cheaper then what I buy AND taste whey whey better,(ok bad joke).
To me most "fresh " mootsie is rather bland. Part of this is that it is saltless, the other that it is not "Dry " enough, you really gotta knead it a lot and salt it, then you can make pizza with it, or eat as is.
To those who have issues with microwaves ets just use boiling water, last I looked, the people who invented this stuff had the wheel and woven cloth, but had to wait for another Italian to "discover the New World" bring us back tomatoes to make sauce. And for the Asians , who feel left out here , pasta making equipment including a guitar like device were found in Italy and carbon dated back to about 2,000 years ago , so fergit this noodles invented in china Malarkay.
Pleasa pleasa passa da sauce my pasta she'sa getting cool I need to mangia.
To all the rest
Mangia qui fait grande!
Every day I wake up eat a simple breakfast and thank the Gods my ancient SIcilian and Roman ancestors moved here, so I can make really nice food...
keep playing those Eyetalian Bagpipes pour a glass of red wine relax and have a "nosh", (ok ok I like a bagel with my mootsie!
Look, three dots... And again... And again! Wow!
No apostrophe is needed in threes, unless if you are talking about Three's Company. The grammar Nazi has been corrected.
Also, might I point out that sheldor's comment said that thomas9666 was an "intelligent life-form", and not a stereotypical view of Scots.
The phone? Really? Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, invented the telephone :D
Ah, TV? John Logie Baird, born Helensburgh, invented the television :D
James watt, born Greenock, Scotland, invented the modern steam engine.
Alexander Fleming, born in Ayrshire, Scotland, discovered penicillin.
Kirkpatrick MacMillan, born Thorhill, Scotland invented the bicycle.
John Boyd Dunlop, born Scotland, patented the pneumatic tyre.
Mrs Keiller, born Dundee, invented marmalade.
Charles MacIntosh, born Glasgow, patented the raincoat.
John Chalmers, born Dundee, invented the adhesive stamp.
James Simson, born Bathgate, was the first man to use chloroform.
William Symington born Lanarkshire, was the first man to propel a boat by steam.
And "ze Germans" gave you the Blue Jeans the Motor Car and the Computer, LOL! :D
Anything else you need to know? :D
GOD BLESS AMERICA! :)
Yay, um, sort of, almost Scottish! (ancestors scots, born in NZ)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans
Eheh you learn something new everyday! :D
Jeans are trousers made from denim. Some of the earliest American blue jeans were made by Jacob Davis, Calvin Rogers, and Levi Strauss in 1873.
Levi Strauss (born Löb Strauß; February 26, 1829 – September 26,1902) was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
So VIVA ITALIA! :)
The paisons did give us the "jeans " we love.
just a little more gasoline for the fires
Canadians have been responsible for some of the best inventions of our time
acrylics (Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite) - William Chalmers
Actar 911 CPR Dummy - Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault and Jonathan Vinden
air-conditioned railway coach - Henry Ruttan (1858)
antigravity suit - Wilbur R. Franks (1940)
basketball - James Naismith (1892)
batteryless radio (AC radio tube) - Edward Samuel Rogers Sr. (1925)
bovril
calcium carbide and acetylene gas (production of) - Thomas L. "Carbide" Wilson (1892)
carcino embryonic antigen (CEA) blood test - Dr. Phil Gold (1968)
cardiac intensive care unit (first)
cobalt bomb - University of Saskatchewan and Eldorado Mining and Refining (1951)
compound marine engine - Benjamin Franklin Tibbets compound revolving snow shovel (trains)
computerized braille
crash position indicator (C.P.I) - Harry T. Stevinson and David M. Makow (59)
dental mirror
disintegrating plastic
ear piercer
electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn (1882)
electric hand prosthesis for children - Helmut Lukas (1971)
electrical car (North America's first)
electric wheelchair - George J. Klein
electron microscope - Prof. E. F. Burton and Cecil Hall, James Hillier and Albert Prebus (late 1930s)
electronic wave organ - Frank Morse Robb (1927)
explosives vapour detector - Dr Lorne Elias (1990)
fathometer - Reginald Fessenden
film developing tank
five pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan (1909)
foghorn - Robert Foulis (1854)
frozen fish - Dr. Archibald G. Huntsman (1926)
garbage bag (green plastic) - Harry Wasyluk and Larry Hanson (1950s)
Gestalt Photo Mapper - G. Hobrough (1975)
gingerale - John J. McLaughlin (1904)
goalie mask - Jacques Plante (1959)
Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt (1862)
hair tonic
heart valve operation (first)
helicopter trap (for landing on ships)
helium as a substitute for hydrogen in airships
hydrofoil boat - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin (1908)
IMAX - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr (1968)
instant potato flakes - Dr. Edward Asselbegs and the Food Research Institute (1962)
insulation
insulin (as diabetes treatment) - Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best and Dr. Collip (1921)
So there! (sticks out tongue and wiggles fingers in ears)
This half Scottish Bonnie red haired lass just could not resist adding her two cents worth. (the other half is Canadian) My favorite is the insulin which keeps my brother alive and well.
By the way I actually do have a friend who is Scottish, wears a kilt, plays bagpipes, and downs copious amounts of expensive whiskey with his haggis. He is a walking cliche and loves it.
Take chair and add a motor in your brain.. voila.. this is not an invention.
Invention is something new, new by design of operations, not the two things linked together with no advantage over the combination of those two.
Curse my lazy people!
Here are just the top ten most surprising and influential.
1. GuinnessWell maybe this isn't so surprising but its popularity and longevity have made it Ireland's most successful and recognisable export
Undoubtedly the most famous Irish export throughout the world. Drunk around the globe and loved by millions, its Guinness.
Arthur Guinness began brewing Guinness in Leixlip, County Kildare before transferring to St. Jame’s Gate Brewery. In 1759 he signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per year. That’s how confident he was in his product.
Now, 251 years on, the best selling alcoholic drink of all time boasts of sales exceeding $2.6 billion. To Arthur, Slainte!
2. Color photography
Certainly one of Ireland’s most prolific inventors, John Joly was responsible for meldometer for measuring the melting points of minerals, the steam calorimeter for measuring specific heats, and the photometer for measuring light intensity and use of radiation for cancer treatment.
What he is most known for however is the invention of color photography. In 1894 this Irish genius from Hollywood, County Offaly found a successful way of producing color photographs from a single plate. He changed the way we see the world.
3. Trans-Atlantic calls
It’s a long way from Skype but it was an Irishman who was knighted for his work in establishing the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1865. Lord Kelvin Thomson helped to lay the cable which stretched from Newfoundland to Valentia in County Cork.
He also had a very keen interest in the measurement of temperature and thermodynamics which led to the scale of temperature, “The Kelvin Scale”.
4. A cure for Leprosy
This one I’m especially thankful for. It was an Irish man who accidently discovered a cure for leprosy while he was looking for answer to Ireland’s tuberculosis problem. What a lucky mistake.
Vincent Barry made this accidental and miraculous discovery, with the catchy title of compound B663. This compound would go on to cure 15 million people of this devastating disease.
5. The modern tractor
“The Mad Mechanic”, Harry Ferguson was responsible for the original Ferguson System of tractor. It was patented by the mad inventor in 1926 and is the same basic design for a modern tractor that is used today.
This County Down loony also invented his own motor cycle, race car and plane and in 1909 he was the first Irishman to fly. Originally a bicycle repairman he even built himself the first ever four-wheeled Formula-One car.
His name lives on in the Massey Ferguson company.
. The submarine
This man probably took a lot of slake for this invention…an underwater boat? We’ll believe it when we see it!
As it happens back in 1881, in County Clare, John Philip Holland was the first person to successfully launch a submarine. The first of its kind, it was called the “Fenian Ram”. By 1900 the U.S. Navy was formally commissioning the production.
7. The tank
From Blackrock, Dublin in 1911, came the world’s first armored tank.
When, the then Home Secretary in Britain, Winston Churchill commissioned the design of a vehicle “capable of resisting bullets and shrapnel, crossing trenches, flattening barbed wire, and negotiating the mud of no-man’s land” this is what our Dublin boy came up with.
The World Wars might have been very different without his invention. Though modern tanks might look entirely different to his original designs the essential “battle buggy” remains exactly the same.
8. Guided missile
It’s strange that such a peace loving people seem to have had a good head for army equipment. From Castlebar, County Mayo, Louis Brennan invented the guided missile. This stealth torpedo was used as a costal defensive mechanism.
Brennan is also credited with inventing the first helicopter however his prototype crashed and burnt in 1925.
9. Ejector seat
It is rather worrying that it was Irishmen who came up with the first functioning helicopter (Louis Brennan) and also the first ejector seat.
In 1945 Sir James Martin tested out his device on a dummy, a wise choice. The following year a man called Bernard Lynch became the first live tester of the County Down man’s invention.
It was soon adopted by the Royal Air force as a standard safety device.
10. Apparatus for whiskey distilling
A Dublin chap with a very exotic name, Aeneas Coffey, came up with the world first heat-exchange device in 1830. This might not sound like that big a deal but this very efficient little piece of equipment led to huge advances in distilling, including whiskey
*My favorite is #9 It might be interesting to combine it with #10 #8 or even #7
Tesla had guided bombs before anyone.
this is almost better then the actual instructable. But it a really nice instructable!
God Bless Bonnie Scotland :)
If SHE had they would have been in Italy , not the Cld damp north hunting down the Wild Haggis drinking really nice Chianti not throat stripping whiskey. Although that stuff is awefully nice in a cup of Cappuccino with a sprinkle of spice on a cold cold morning.
Thanks to all who have posted replies it is really good to laugh when my joints hurts so darn much.
ciao
The goat milk makes very good cheeses, fresh and dried. It wil make a very good ricotta, and I think you'll get a good mozalrella like. The true mozarella is made with water buffalo milk, a very fatty one.
The lone precaution is to pasteurize the milk as the Malta Brucellosis (goggle for more...) is a disease transmitted by milk from sheeps and goats. Pasteurization is very effective. If the herder tests the goats for the disease every year it's better but I have doubts in Philippines.
Here in southeast Mexico is impossible to make cheese as the milk is of a awful quality. trials for ricotta gives less than 200 gr of cheese with 4 liters of "whole" very expensive milk. Conclusion the milk is watered...In France I got commonly 450-500 gr of ricotta from 4 liters of fresh pasteurized milk.
I have not tried this with goat milk yet... I shall maybe give it a try when I am making my half goat parmesan in the near future. I shall tell you how this turns out.
Also, if you want me to make an instructable on another kind of cheese, just leave me a comment.
One last thing, please leave a comment on wether my girlfriend should give cheese making a go or not, she doesn't like the idea but I think she will eventually break xD
I think you should show how to get the curds going and getting to the stretching part.
By 'show how to get the curds going' do you mean the curds separating them, cooking them or heating them before stretching?
Thanks for the reply :)
There are some other ways to get raw milk. You can go the route you did and you can also (depending on where you live) Non homogenized whole milk locally delivered TO you by Greenling.com. I'm in Texas and it is an incredible service. The milk is taken daily from the cows , and delivered fresh. You can also get and choose pretty much everything made and grown locally to be delivered. And it is really affordable. The whole, non homogenized milk is about $7. a gallon, but YUMMY. You can also find your other cheese ingredients sometimes through Greenling. I don't know if there are versions of this business in other states, but most likely some sort of service. There are some other offices to contact to find local milk, without investing in a cow. (just alternatives) If you try Greenling..if you are in their service area, hope you like it! I'm not a rep, I've just tried it.