If its one thing I like its cheese... I mean who doesn't like cheese? Since I'm big in cured meats my girlfriend and I decided to try our luck at making cheese. We went with a cheese kit to make things easy... The kit has everything you need to get started. While you don't need a cheese press it does make things a little easier. We just used different things laying around the house to press the cheese. Once the cheese has been pressed its set to dry for a few days to develop a rind. After the rind has developed you then wax your cheese. The most important thing you need is a aging chamber. Since I have a chamber for curing meats it works perfect for aging cheese. If anyone is interested in how to make cheese click on the link below. If anyone who is wondering what the slab of meat hanging its pancetta. It will be done in about 2 weeks. I will be making another post about my curing chamber and what you need to set one up.
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Update on the cheese.... After noticing some white fluid coming out of the waxed cheese we decided to cut into it to see what it looked like. No mold but there was a lot of liquid dripping out of it. After reading some articles, we think the curds had to much whey in them causing lactic acid to form inside the cheese wheel. Oh well... we will try our luck again and see what happens.
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You could probably engineer something using a car jack or vise. Get a plastic bucket and cut the bottom off of it making a cylinder, then drill holes all along the bottom third. Use the cut off bottom as a template to cut tow circles pieces of ply wood 1 inch thick. Under your Truck in the garage put some newspaper down on the ground, then the first piece of wood and then the bucket cylinder over that. Dump in the curd mass and then the other piece of wood on top. Get you truck jack in that sucker and start applying pressure using your truck as a counter weight.
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