Homestead Cheese Culture - General Purpose Mesophilic - Freeze Dried Sachet

I use this cheese culture to make some starter for fresh cheese (quark) and it worked out well. I made the starter according to the directions on the packet and pored it into mini muffin tins and then froze them solid. I then bagged the individual starter cubes and put them in my freezer and and now I use two cubes to to pints milk to make cheese. Works a treat.The only suggestion is that the cheese recipe they give doesn't have any salt in it and I put in a bit of salt for flavour.

Makes great ricotta.

The enclosed Homestead instructions were limited but Maggie's advice on this site of how to make 20 starters pots from just one sachet that could then be frozen was a great help. I am new to cheesemaking and only started when I was gifted a Mad Millie cheesemaking kit. The Mad Millie mesohphilic sachets are currently selling at £1.50 (£7.50 per pack of 5) each so the Homestead comes out so much cheaper. The only issue I have had is that with just 50 ml of the prepared culture my feta was too soft but when repeated with two lots of the 50 ml culture is the best feta I have made yet.

As stated sort worked but did not end up with a liquid not good enough to strain very thin

This was easy to use and produced the expected results in the time given on the instruction. I have since made 3 cheddars from the same batch, and froze various portions of it for future use. Very affordable, too!

Not sure if the product was contaminated in some way but it failed. No reaction what so ever.

Following the freezing method that came with the product, I used plastic cubes to freeze them. My son thinks they are ice cream cubes

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