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Food & Fermentation

Cheese Making

Make your first clean fresh cheese, then press and age a real wheel

12 lessons4 modules9h 20m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

Learn to make sound, flavourful cheese at home using the same control over acidity, temperature, and moisture that commercial dairies rely on, scaled to a kitchen stockpot. You will work with whole milk, cream, and cultured buttermilk, and learn to choose and pasteurise milk, build acidity with mesophilic and thermophilic starters, set a clean curd with the right dose of rennet, cut and cook to control moisture, then press, salt, and age a wheel. Every step is anchored to measurable targets such as temperature, set time, pH, and flocculation so you can repeat your successes.

Curriculum

Module 1: Getting Started: Milk, Equipment, and Sanitation3 lessons
Module 2: Cultures and Rennet: Acidity and the Set3 lessons
  • Starter Cultures: Mesophilic, Thermophilic, and Acidity🔒50m
  • Rennet: Types, Dose, and Calcium Chloride🔒45m
  • Timing the Set with the Flocculation Method🔒45m
Module 3: From Curd to Cheese: Cutting, Cooking, and Fresh Cheeses3 lessons
  • Your First Fresh Cheeses: Ricotta and Chevre🔒45m
  • Cutting the Curd to Control Moisture🔒50m
  • Cooking and Stirring the Curd🔒45m
Module 4: Pressing, Salting, and Aging a Wheel3 lessons
  • Draining, Pressing, and Knitting the Wheel🔒50m
  • Salting: Brine and Dry Salting🔒45m
  • Aging the Wheel and Diagnosing Faults🔒55m
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