Food & Fermentation
Cheese Making
Make your first clean fresh cheese, then press and age a real wheel
12 lessons4 modules9h 20m durationbeginner level
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 Sanitation
- Choosing Milk and Why Ultra-Pasteurised Milk Will Not SetPreview
- Gentle Pasteurisation and the Cheese Kitchen Kit🔒
- Sanitation: The Quiet Predictor of Success🔒
Module 2: Cultures and Rennet: Acidity and the Set
- Starter Cultures: Mesophilic, Thermophilic, and Acidity🔒
- Rennet: Types, Dose, and Calcium Chloride🔒
- Timing the Set with the Flocculation Method🔒
Module 3: From Curd to Cheese: Cutting, Cooking, and Fresh Cheeses
- Your First Fresh Cheeses: Ricotta and Chevre🔒
- Cutting the Curd to Control Moisture🔒
- Cooking and Stirring the Curd🔒
Module 4: Pressing, Salting, and Aging a Wheel
- Draining, Pressing, and Knitting the Wheel🔒
- Salting: Brine and Dry Salting🔒
- Aging the Wheel and Diagnosing Faults🔒
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