http://www.rivercottage.net/shop/product/cheese_making/

Got a shock at a cost for a 1 day class in cheese making (the basics). Better to get your equipment and a good book and try it yourself.

OMG! Apparently there’s a market for that. I have to find a bigger place than my bathroom to make cheeses! My wife can do the lunches and I’m pretty sure I can borrow a tractor to pick people up from the railway station.
The cheesefarm were I get my milk is giving childrens parties where they teach to make cheese. This includes a baby gouda about 1 lbs, pancakes, yes, a tractor ride and a tour through the stables. For 15 euro per child….

LOL !!!

I saw another post a week ago for classes in Wisconsin i think it was for around $300. so I guess its average.

here is some cheese type tidbits;
http://madamefromage.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-make-downton-abbey-cheese-plate.html

We have a brew store here that sells cheese making supplies and the woman who owns the place has been having classes on 30 minute mozzarrella. She can’t make cheese, she doesn’t know how, so I wonder why she thinks she can teach how to make cheese. I went over there Saturday and she had tried to make cheddar cheese out of ultra pasteurized milk. She didn’t even read the first chapter of the book that tells you not to do that. She was actually surprised that it didn’t make a curd. So I wonder if other people teaching classes actually know what they are doing or not.

mmm, pitty I don’t have a castle in my backyard…
Amazing story Tammy, doesn’t that invite you to organize things like that yourself?

Unfortunately their are always opportunists looking for a quick buck. best to ask their experience before taking a course.

I have thought of organizing a demonstration myself. I have thought about offering to do it at the store, but then it sounds like a lot of work and I don’t know that I want to be associated with the other woman. But then at the store would be the only place that I would know of to attract people to come.

One of the common problems is to get equipment and enough milk to were you give the demo. The farm were I get my milk from (I have to find a abbreviation for this since I use them a lot as example !!) has a truck, a 50 liter cheese vat and a press that’s big enough for about 12 molds for 1 lbs baby Gouda’s. They are indeed giving demo’s on request as fancy fairs and things like that. Don’t know how they get their milk there… I’ll ask them tomorrow morning when I get the milk for my Pepper Jacks!

Hard to give demo when it takes average 3 hours to do, people may not have the patience. Best to do an intro course to people that actually want to learn.

Yep, that’s why on “my cheesefarm” the milk is already coagulated when the visiters come. They will tell about the procedure that was followed to get the curd, cut the curd, fill the molds and put them under the press. After that the children (cause I’m talking about childrens parties now) will have a tour around the farm and stables, have pancakes and finally they get their cheeses. I’m not sure if they are brined at that point, something more to ask tomorrow…

Some answers to some questions: “My milkfarm” has a couple of little plastic tanks, suited for food, milk etc. and they use that to transport the milk for demo’s.
When they have a children’s party, the children get the choise: They can take the cheese home, together with some cheese salt and instructions to rub the cheese every day with the salt for a couple of days, or they can pick it up after 2 weeks and then it is brined and coated.
I tasted a 6 weeks old one that was rubbed with salt, made by a girlfriend of my daughter, and it was good.

Nice work !