Any Cheesemakers here?

[Astrid]

Not yet, we are planning on being. I think DH wants to get in a kit. In the past we have made a soft style of cheese using yoghurt as a base (can't think of the name at the moment).

[Livinthedream]

OOOhhh, you should definatly go to Cheeselinks
I can wait for my stuff to arrive.

[Cranky Kitten]

Ooooh, that site looks amazing! Going to have to have a trawl through it as both DH and I *love* cheese and I like cooking as well

[Lolpigs]

I just bought a kit thank you! I've been looking for a place to get started making my own cheese.

Fabulous!

[Pholi]

I love cheese-making!

DP and I have been making cheese together for almost as long as we've known each other - which is only about 2 years. On about our 3rd date he invited me over to make lemon cheese according to the instructions of one of his mates, and we just keep adding to the repertoire since. We make caerphilly, havarti, and camembert (white and blue), as well as cream cheese, yoghurt and sour cream, ricotta, mozzarella and lemon cheese. I haven't bought yoghurt or cream cheese for a year or more now. Our family have come to expect a selection of home-made dairy at every get-together, and our friends would be disappointed if a camembert wasn't brought as a hostess gift at dinners.

It's fun, it's creative, and I get a huge mount of satisfaction watching the process that turns simple milk into any one of a dozen different flavoured and textured types of cheese. I do wish I had access to farm-direct raw milk, though.

Cheeselinks is a great site... we've bought from them several times.

Lolpigs, feel free to ask me if you have any questions - I can't guarantee that I can help, but I can try.

Livinthedream, have you used your kit yet?

[Lolpigs]

Thanks Pholi! I will definatley take you up on that when the kits arrive.

[AnyDream]

Not a cheesemaker, a cheese eater! LOL

Just poppin in to hint that Livinthedream might like to take that (commercial) link down before the Mods see it!