SC - cheese

[Olwen the Odd]

In answer to the press question, the answer is yes.  Actually, we have one 
REAL cheese wheel press and we use a book press, modified, and we have made 
from sheet metal a press we weight down with bricks.  I have used plastic 
before, but I don't like it.  I suppose the patrolium in it gives a funky 
taste.  I have a very sensitive palate anyway - happened after I stopped 
smoking years ago.
olwen


>From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: SCA-Cooks maillist <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: SC - cheese
>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 18:02:59 -0500
>
>Olwen said:
> > After you make the cheese you line the press with cheesecloth and fill 
>it
> > up.  The press has liquid escape holes.  Depending on the type of press 
>you
> > have, you may needs to adjust the pressure as more liquid escapes.
> > Eventually, depending on the cheese type, you take it out of the press 
>and
> > let it age.  Some you wax, some you don't.
> >
> > We have made some really really good tasting cheese that did not turn 
>out to
> > be swiss and was really ugly.  We couldn't stop eating it.  We are 
>hoping to
> > find the error of our ways again...
>
>But what do you use for a cheese press? Do you use one that your purchased
>commercially? Did you make it yourself? I'm imagining something with
>a large screw thread pressing a disc in a bucket. Or did you simply
>use a drilled plastic bucket, a circle of plywood or plastic and a
>bunch of wieghts? Would the latter work?
>
>--
>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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