milk
500 ml
lemon juice
25 grams
condiments
salt
1 g
Milk flavor
Someone's taste
other
craftsmanship
Three quarters of an hour
time consuming
ordinary
difficulty
Steps to make your own cheese
Steps of making homemade cheese: Pour 2 boxes of milk (1 1) into the pot and heat it on low heat. I used a 400W small rice cooker to heat it. Some people also say that it is best to heat it with water, and milk is not easy to cook.
Steps of making cheese: 2 2 Heat the milk to about 60℃. If you don't have a thermometer, you can try it by hand, just feel a little hot.
Steps of making cheese: 3 3 Add lemon juice. You can use white vinegar instead of lemon juice, and the dosage is similar.
The steps of making homemade cheese: 4 4 stirring 1~2 minutes. As you can see, there are many flocs in milk, which is cheese.
The steps of making homemade cheese: 5 5 Cover and let milk protein continue to react with citric acid for 20 minutes.
Steps of making cheese: 6 6 Take a deep container, put a filter screen on it, spread double gauze, pour the reacted milk into the gauze, and filter off the water. The filtered water is whey, which is also a very nutritious substance.
Making steps of homemade cheese: 7 7 Wrap the filtered cheese in gauze, press heavy objects to filter out more whey, and drain it in the refrigerator for more than one night.
The steps of making homemade cheese: 8 8 Prepare a basin of cold boiled water, put the caked cheese into water for cleaning, then pour gauze, press a heavy object and refrigerate for more than one night. This step is to wash away too much sour taste. If you don't mind the sour taste, you don't need to wash it. The cheese itself is a little sour. )
Steps of making homemade cheese: 9 9 Put the drained and caked cheese into a small bowl, sprinkle with 1g salt and stir evenly with a spatula. Salt is added to neutralize the sour taste. I'm super afraid of acid.
The steps of self-made cheese: 10 10 wrapped with gauze, sealed and refrigerated. Of course, it doesn't matter whether you eat it yourself or not.