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Serious Cheese: Why Goat Cheese Pizza Lacks Stretch

The step in cheese-making that turns boring milk into fantastic cheese is curdling, the process which gave Little Miss Muffett her favorite pastime. As I believe I've mentioned before, not counting the unusual properties of some thistles, there are essentially two ways to set curd: rennet, and acid. And right there is the critical choice for whether your cheese is going to melt or not.

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5 Comments | Posted by Jake Lahne, March 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: cheese science, chevre, goat cheese, rennet, science, Serious Cheese

New Kids on the Block

Photograph from asheville farm on Flickr With advent of spring comes the start of cheesemaking season, heralded early on by the births of the year's first kids. Unless they are tricked into doing otherwise, goats breed and give birth seasonally: Mating occurs from late summer through early winter, and the kids are born about five months following that. About two weeks after kids are born, the mothers can be milked so that cheesemaking can begin. What does this mean for you? Now's the time to start savoring some fresh goat cheese....

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4 Comments | Posted by Jamie Forrest, March 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Tagged: chevre, goat cheese