How to Make Cheese at Home

Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by gnicholas on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:16AM (#36832978)

Interesting, I make yogurt and find it to be cost-effective. Perhaps that’s just because yogurt is very expensive here (Silicon Valley).

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by eternauta3k on Sunday July 23, 2023 @02:44AM (#36833090)

Also cost-effective in Germany, at least the materials. To minimize the time cost,

* don't do the initial step where you almost boil the milk

* dissolve the powdered milk and starter yogurt using one of these [1]

* make the yogurt directly in the boxes ("tupperware") you'll be storing it in

* make large batches

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sch%C3%BCttelbecher...

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by j45 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:02AM (#36833161)

Yogurt is absolutely more cost effective to make at home in Canada.

You can’t buy 1 gallon/4 litres of yogurt for $5 as far as I can tell. Maybe there is an angle I’m not aware of.

Plus you can be free of all the preservatives.

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by Broken_Hippo on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:55AM (#36833660)

Plus you can be free of all the preservatives.

This is the speech of a scaremonger: You might not be trying to scare folks, but you've certainly bought into it. Preservatives cut down on food waste and are an overall good for society. More folks would starve without these and more folks would wind up with foodborne illnesses.

I'll mention that salt and sugar are preservatives, we've just found better methods now. Are all of them good? Nope, but food preservation was never perfect. That doesn't make it worse now.

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by prmoustache on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:17AM (#36836142)

They may be a necessary evil for large production of the industry but you can make do without them when you make your owns that you will eat in the following 3 days. It is still a bonus in that case.

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by j45 on Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:10PM (#36841423)

Not to distract from the original conversation, it’s great meaning your own yogurt in the quantities you’ll consume per week.

No fearmongering intended.

There’s lots of natural preservatives. But we know that’s not always the case with most commercial options.

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Re:How to Make Cheese at Home by astura on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:09PM (#36836663)

Something I've noticed about Yogurt specifically - yogurt is very expensive at the grocery store (almost $5 for the 32 oz tub of plain store brand) but much cheaper at Walmart ($2.36 for a 32 oz tub of plain store brand).

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