{"id":1,"date":"2014-12-24T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-10-10T22:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T22:59:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"First Cheese – Christmas 2014 – Jarlsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jarlsberg\"<\/a>December 22, 2014 My first cheese try – Jarlsberg<\/p>\n

I first took a class with my wife to learn to make Alpine cheeses. \u00a0From that class, I received this recipe for Jarlsberg. \u00a0I began by gathering all of the things I would need and make the cheese. 14 hours after I started I was ready to press my cheese. The smaller cheese in the picture was a wheel made from the whey.<\/p>\n

The milk came from Cozy Cow Dairy, 2 gallons made a 2 lbs. wheel.
\nTheir milk is super amazing, the best I have seen for cheese.<\/p>\n

\"Nesting<\/a>
Nesting buckets to use as mold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I discovered very quickly that a mold to press the curds into was going to be very expensive , so I decided to go with free! These buckets are usually used for soup, but they nest nicely, so they make a great\u00a0wheel. I drilled the one used on the bottom so it drains well.<\/p>\n

Update 1:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Because I was new to cheese making, I bought wax from hobby lobby(paraffin). The wax was very brittle and so when I turned the cheese little cracks happened in the wax. \u00a0After a couple weeks I could see mold growing under the wax. \u00a0Watching the mold\u00a0grow week after week, caused me a lot of anxiety. So I purchased some cheese wax and began the process of peeling off the paraffin and cleaning up the molds. \u00a0Red, Black, yellow, white, I had them all! \u00a0I cleaned it with brine as best I could and cut off a little cheese where the mold wouldn’t come off. \u00a0Then I re-waxed them and put them back into the frig. \u00a0NO PROBLEM.<\/p>\n

Updat<\/strong>e 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0June 2015, This cheese is very delicious! After 6 months under wax it continues to get better. \u00a0It doesn’t taste like Jarlsberg to me, but it is good.<\/p>\n

Updat<\/span><\/strong>e 3:<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0We finished eating the last of this wheel in September 2015 and it was amazing, well worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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