[Carl f k]

Goats milk cheese, just made my first attempt..turned out good with chives

4 litres goats milk.. Heat to 82 deg C
Add half a cup of cider vinigar
Gently stir
Leave for 15 mins
Strain through muslin and leave to drain for half hour
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and a handful of chives
Put in a mould or roll in the muslin and hang for 5 hours to dry out

Spread on toast and shove it in ya gob lovely

[Lesley Silvester]

Not seen this way of doing it and only half an hour? Mine takes all night to drain.

Finally made my starter today. Cheese making at the weekend.

[luckylady]

Sounds good Carl.  May have a go at this as well as the halloumi. 

[Greenerlife]

Just bought loads of goats milk - will give it a whirl!  Love chevre

[Carl f k]

Not seen this way of doing it and only half an hour? Mine takes all night to drain.

Finally made my starter today. Cheese making at the weekend.

What do you use as a starter MGM ?

[MAK]

We always have some bought chevre in the fridge but will try this if we can get the milk ( on toast with a little honey).
Someone near us is giving away 6 adult pygymy goats, 4 younger ones and 4 kids ! tempting but we do not have the materials to set up a new bit of garden for them and I don't want to keep them locked within our large barn.

[Lesley Silvester]

Not seen this way of doing it and only half an hour? Mine takes all night to drain.

Finally made my starter today. Cheese making at the weekend.

What do you use as a starter MGM ?

Sorry, just seen this. I bought a starter. It comes in a sachet and you make it up with milk then freeze it in ice cube trays as one sachet will make loads of cheese.

[Greenerlife]

Added the vinegar 15 minutes ago and othing has happened!   

[Greenerlife]

Thrown away 4litres.     Not a happy bunny.

[Greenerlife]

Think I had better stop doing stuff today.  Everything has gone wrong, and I am sooooo stupid!  Completely misread the instructions and didn't heat it up hot enough - i will wait until tomorrow to have another go!

[Carl f k]

Don't beat yourself up..we all make mistakes..let us know how u get on 

[Greenerlife]

It is 82 degrees C isn't it?  That seems very hot to me, which is why I did it at F !  Doh!

[Lesley Silvester]

My recipe says 90C then cool it quickly to about 32C. My thermometer doesn't go down that far so I cool it to 40C. I've got mixed up with C and F before now. The book I use is in Fahrenheit and the instructions with the cheese starter is in centigrade. Easily done but so annoying when you waste the milk. I would have tried reheating it even with the vinegar in.

Btw my cheese starter came from G N Ltd. www.gnltd.co.uk They are the people who produce Caprivite.

[Greenerlife]

I did try reheating it MGOM, but it had less curds than before!  Just milk with vinegar in it.  Still - another day another 4 litres!  Hoping things go better tomorrow.

[smudger]

I'd like to try this as it seems very much quicker / easier (less stages) than the one I have been using, but what do you do with the whey? Having added vinegar it is acidic?  I have been giving hte ledt over whey back to the goats but you can use it to make bread etc and I have also boiled it on to produce ricotta (really one for winter when the stove is on).  You can't make riccotta I know but is it still ok for the goats?  Fertilise the garden?