{"id":252,"date":"2016-02-29T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=252"},"modified":"2016-03-01T05:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:44:29","slug":"how-gouda-is-it-february-15th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"How Gouda is It? &#8211; February 15th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160218_124814_resized.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-253 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160218_124814_resized-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Gouda\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160218_124814_resized-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160218_124814_resized-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160218_124814_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is the baby Gouda cute?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gouda is a Dutch yellow cheese made from cow&#8217;s milk. It is named after the city of Gouda in the Netherlands. I don&#8217;t eat a lot of Gouda, but I generally like it and it is often found waxed in the red wax I use for most of my cheese.\u00a0This batch was from the Gouda recipe on Cheesemaking.com.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe does say that you can wash it \u00a0with beer or add spices to the\u00a0mix.<\/p>\n<p>It was made from a couple gallons of king soopers milk. \u00a0Gouda is a washed curd \u00a0cheese, so after the curd has been cut and stirred, a third of whey is drained off and replaced with 1\/3 with hot water(98\u00b0-102\u00b0) and stirred more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0MA4002 &#8211; 1\/8 tsp<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp Calcium Chloride<\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp lipase<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp double strength microbial rennet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brining:<\/strong> When it came time to press the curds I decided to make 2 wheels of different sizes and vary the brining time. 1\/2 lbs wheel got\u00a0only 2 hours of brine while the 2pound wheel was brined for 8.5 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>These were waxed right after brining. The aging is 2-6 month, so May-December we should be eating these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gouda is a Dutch yellow cheese made from cow&#8217;s milk. It is named after the city of Gouda in the Netherlands. I don&#8217;t eat a lot of Gouda, but I generally like it and it is often found waxed in the red wax I use for most of my cheese.\u00a0This batch was from the Gouda recipe on Cheesemaking.com. The recipe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270,"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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardcheese","category-semi-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cheese.sunspotdesign.com\/cheese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}