Month: June 2024

In Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, Gianaclis Caldwell hammers home the importance of properly cleaning cheesemaking equipment in order to prevent milkstone, the calcium deposit that will, she warned, eventually build up on your cheesemaking equipment. But I ignored her. Hot water and soap was all I used and it seemed to do the job just fine.  That…

When we had a stretch of cool and rainy days last week, I decided I’d better smoke some cheeses before summer hit. The pellet-smoker tube lasted for 4 hours (I used hickory pellets), and I turned the cheeses once partway through: a half Manchego, a half Dragon’s Milk, a wedge of ale cheddar, and two Goudas. The sixty-degree day…