I opened a stirred curd cheddar tonight that was really good! The texture is right and the flavor is good. The I opened my cotswold and it was good too! It is a little flaky, I didn’t press it correctly, but it tasted good! We also opened a pepper jack that I have been tasting every other weekend for awhile and it was good. The texture is off because I didn’t press it correctly, but it still tasted good.

I feel much better now about my cheese making adventure. I actually have cheese coming out of my cave that tastes like it’s supposed to now.

Congratulations, great to hear things working out. Its great when all ones effort finally comes together

I’ve been tasting and stressing for awhile now. It’s a learning experience. I had a brew club meeting at the house last night, and some of those people are interested in cheese making. So we came in the house and looked at my stuff and I was showing them my cheese cave full of non finished cheese and I started pulling out some that I thought was ready. It was pretty neat. They tasted and asked questions and gave honest opinion. We discussed why the texture of the pepper jack was off, but the texture in the cheddar was perfect. The cheddar is pretty mild, and we talked about how you have to age it longer to get it sharper. None of them had ever heard of cotswold, but they all agreed that it would go good in a salad.

There was one man who is seriously wanting to start cheese. I told him to call me and I can tell him everything that I screwed up so that he doesn’t have to learn everything by trial and error.

It great that u have people their for support and feedback, very important. Great to spread the word on getting more people hooked in making cheese

Good news, Tammy.  Glad it’s working out for you.  Have you got a plan to correct the problem with pressing? 

You’ve been making a lot of cheese.  With this kind of encouragement, you’re going to be fanatical!

I was pressing a 5” mold for a 4” mold pressure. Obviously incorrect. The cheddar that I made yesterday was closer to being knitted, so next time I will increase the pressure. 90lbs didn’t do it, so I will go up a little more.