{"id":237,"date":"2016-02-02T02:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T02:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-02-22T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:24:33","slug":"guidos-cheese-groundhog-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Guido&#8217;s Cheese &#8211; Groundhog Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guido&#8217;s recipe from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/embed?asin=B003UV8ZT4&amp;preview=newtab&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_.SOWwb1JRQ95V\">Home cheese making<\/a>&#8221; p 146 seems to be a favorite of many, yet somehow I waited 18 months before I got around to making it. When we ended up with a snow day on February 2nd, it seemed like the natural choice.<\/p>\n<p>Started with 2 gallons of King Soopers whole milk, TA-61 Thermophilic culture, Calcium Chloride , and some animal rennet. \u00a0Heat the milk to 80\u00b0 and then add the culture, let set for 30 mins. Continue to heat milk to 90\u00b0, add Calcium Chloride, mix, \u00a0and add the rennet.<\/p>\n<p>After a clean break, heat to 120\u00b0 for 40 mins.<\/p>\n<p>Once we add the curds to the forms, \u00a0press at 3 lbs for 15 mins. and flip, another 15 mins and flip again, and again. Pressing lasts a full 24 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe called for 24 hrs of brining, but I was going away on vacation so my Guido&#8217;s cheese went on vacation with me. I have several Tupperware that nicely fit\u00a0my 2 pound wheels, so it worked out fine. \u00a0I was able to dry the wheel for a couple days on a plate covered by the Tupperware to get it ready for waxing. \u00a0I brought home the wheel in the empty Tupperware. I decided to wax it right away and get it into the frig for aging.<\/p>\n<p>The aging is 4-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Note:<\/span> <\/strong>A week or so after I made this wheel, I was on a cheese forum and they were discussing this recipe and several people said the brining \u00a0was\u00a0way\u00a0too long and that the cheese will come out salty. \u00a0They suggested 2 hours of brining per pound of cheese.<\/p>\n<p>We will see how it comes out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guido&#8217;s recipe from &#8220;Home cheese making&#8221; p 146 seems to be a favorite of many, yet somehow I waited 18 months before I got around to making it. When we ended up with a snow day on February 2nd, it seemed like the natural choice. Started with 2 gallons of King Soopers whole milk, TA-61 Thermophilic culture, Calcium Chloride ,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semi-hard","category-semi-soft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}