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title: "Cheese"
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date: 2022-04-16
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tags: ['basic', 'cheesefare']
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author: "SuperDuperDeou"
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---
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The success of this recipe depends entirely on the quality of the milk. The fresher the milk the better. Your regular
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UHT milk won't work, because the necessary bacteria have been killed.
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You do not necessary need cow milk, basically every animal milk will work, but the cheese will have vastly different (
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not necessarily worse) characteristics.
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## Ingredients
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- thermometer
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- 1 cheesecloth
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- 1 cheese recipient
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- 2l of milk
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- 25g of table salt (optional with aging)
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- 2g of rennet
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- Some coarse salt
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- Oil and vinegar (for aging)
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## Directions
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### Preparation
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Pour the milk and the salt into a pot, stir it well, and heat it up to 35°C.
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Once the temperature has been reached, add the rennet and stir well.
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Let it cook until it solidifies (about 1 and a half hours), then cut in 1x1cm squares.
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Let it rest for half an hour.
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Pour the cheese into the cheesecloth and il drip until it has completely separated from the liquid part (whey).
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Place the cheese into the recipient.
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Cover both sides of the cheese with coarse salt, repeat this operation twice, waiting 1 hour between two saltings.
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Store in the fridge.
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### Aging (optional)
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Store the cheese in a chill place (around 12°C).
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Every day of aging, flip the cheese upside-down.
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For the first two weeks, also cover it with oil and vinegar every day.
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## Extra: Uses for the whey
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You might have noticed you've obtained way more whey than cheese, it's normal, so you probably want to use it in some
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way instead of throwing it away.
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If they like acids, you can feed it to your plants: it's pretty much giving them water and fertilizer in one go, you can
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feed it to your animals, since it's a great source of proteins, it's the prime ingredient of another cheese called "
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Ricotta", it can be used instead of water in sever recipes, and many other: you can even drink it. People have
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engineered ways to use the whey since the dawn of cheese.
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