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Offline Aviendha

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Making Feta cheese?
« on: November 23, 2011, 01:49:15 am »
I am just wondering if anyone has tips on how to make feta cheese?

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Re: Making Feta cheese?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 04:13:28 am »
jeninwa or cookie may be the experts perhaps on this?
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Re: Making Feta cheese?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2011, 04:16:35 am »
Not me I'm afraid. Jeninwa is the cheese maker, although I would love to learn.
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Re: Making Feta cheese?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2011, 05:19:01 pm »
You will need a source of milk that is not ultra-homogenized/pasteurized and it is preferable to use raw milk if you can get it. 

You can get a kit, with the necessary ingredients from Cheeselinks  if you are in Australia.

If you can't get the unprocessed milk, you can also add a few drops of calcium chloride, also available from Cheeselinks, to add to the milk before you add the lipase & etc.

I prefer a combination of goat milk and cow milk as for me this gives the best flavor but that's a matter of personal taste. 

This place is in the U.S. but the process is shown in a series of photos, which makes it easy to understand.

It produces a lot of whey and I save this, add a small amount of milk to it and then make ricotta from the whey/milk mixture.
Here's the process in photos.

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Re: Making Feta cheese?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2011, 08:15:13 pm »
Bit late reading this I buy all my ingredients for cheese making from Green Living Australia
http://www.greenlivingaustralia.com.au/index.html

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