Cheese is an ancient food. There is a legend that the process of making cheese was discovered by accident by an Arab merchant who kept milk in a container along with the stomach of an animal. Soon the milk turned into cottage cheese. The earliest cheeses were quite sour and s alty, similar in texture to cottage cheese or feta cheese. Currently, the counters of modern stores offer a wide range of cheeses for every taste and size.
Cooking at home
Cheese making is common all over the world. Now everyone, having mastered a certain technology, can prepare this product. The main thing is the availability of good milk, appropriate equipment and the right cheese mold.
5 years ago it was problematic to find a suitable option. Now the choice of forms is diverse. They come in various sizes and are very comfortable to use.
And perhaps the dream of any cheesemaker is to have a professionalform. But the prices of such products are quite high, and not everyone can afford. And considering the fact that making homemade cheese helps to significantly reduce costs, then buying expensive molds is illogical.
DIY cheese molds
You can make similar forms yourself. Previously, cheese was pressed in wooden products, but now plastic has replaced it, which greatly simplifies the task. To make a mold for homemade cheese, you can use a plastic bucket with a volume of half a liter. Use a needle to make holes in it.
Stainless steel molds are also great. It is better to prepare several containers at once. If you put these molds one into the other and then swap them, then they get an excellent self-pressing cheese. An alternative to a professional cheese mold can be a colander or fruit washer.
Variety in stores
For those who decide to purchase cheese molds in stores, there is a huge choice. It all depends on the preferences of the hostess. The product can be square, and round, and metal, and wooden.
Molds for the press must be selected only made using stainless steel or high-strength plastic. With the help of such molds, harder varieties of cheeses are made. For soft ones, plastic molds are perfect. In the process of cooking in such forms there is no pressure, and the cheese is compacted under its own weight, which does not obligepurchase a product made of dense material. The geometric shape can be chosen very different. The choice will not affect the quality of the final product. But the size of the mold affects the cooking time of the cheese. A smaller product will compact and ripen the cheese much faster.
What kind of cheese you end up with depends on many factors, such as good milk, the right form for making cheese, the weight of the press, ripening time, spices and spices. But the main factor is the attitude with which this product is prepared. After all, only cheese made with love is delicious.
