Flanders Dairy does all sorts of cheese: gouda, mascarpone, cherry mozzarella, goat cheese etc. If you're looking for hand crafted cheese in the market, you'll find plenty of options. It's actually locked with calcium and minerals from milk. Cheese isn't supposed to be this unhealthy. It has sodium, emulsifiers, stabilisers, preservatives and what not. Prateeksh Mehra, owner and founder of Spotted Cow Fromagerie, a Mumbai-based creamery that produces artisanal cheese says 'Pick up a packet of mass-produced or processed cheese and read through the label. Not only is it delicious but it's also really healthy.

I tried a few batches of cream cheese myself - watching the milk coagulate and turn into little lumps of heaven, boy was it good. If you're feeling ambitious and want to put yourself out there with something like mozzarella then add starter culture and rennet to your shopping list. And you'll need the right arsenal though: For cottage cheese and ricotta you need a good batch of raw milk, something acidic like vinegar or lemon juice, salt, a cooking thermometer, cheese cloth and a strainer. But the soft ones like mozzarella, cream cheese, ricotta and cottage cheese are actually pretty easy to make. Especially if you're attempting to make the hard ones like cheddar, gouda etc. Hard, crumbly, chewy - they almost look picturesque in their sealed packets.Īs delicious as it is, the process of cheese making can be a real chore. Not a day goes by when I don't think of shaving a side off the fabulous manchego, cheddar or edam sitting in the side of my fridge.

And I know this because I spend more time browsing the cheese counter at a supermarket than I do at a fashion apparel store. 'How to make cheese' is an addictive hobby and one you could seriously get used to.I love cheese.

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