Cheesemaking Made Easy: 60 Delicious Varieties [Paperback]

Ricki Carroll (Author), Robert Carroll (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 1995

This updated edition includes equipment lists, step-by-step instructions, and a troubleshooting chart.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Step by step, Cheesemaking Made Easy presents everything the novice cheesemaker needs to know to make great tasting cheeses starting with the very first batch. Much of the equipment required is already found in the kitchen, and other items, such as cheese molds, can be made from common household objects. Cheesmaking Made Easy even offers simple instructions for making a homemade press from scraps of wood and other easy-to-find parts. Cheesemaking Made Easy covers ingredients, 60 easy recipes, soft cheeses, hard cheeses, whey cheeses, goat's milk cheeses, bacterial and mold ripened cheeses. Photographic illustrations and a glossary are included. -- Midwest Book Review

From the Back Cover

Make your own cheese! Cheesemaking pros Ricki Carroll and Robert Carroll provide step-by-step instructions for making delicious and nutritional cheese at home -- easily and inexpensively -- beginning with the very first batch.

Cheesemaking Made Easy gives you a wealth of information on types of cheese as well as precise, foolproof instructions. Here are just a few of the varieties included:

-- Soft cheeses - cream and cottage cheese

-- Hard cheeses - chedder and Gouda

-- Whey cheeses -- ricotta

-- Goat's milk cheeses - feta

-- Mold-ripened cheeses - Stilton

-- Quick cheeses - Fromage Blanc

Cheesemaking Made Easy explains what equipment is required and deals with all aspects of the process, including preparing a starter culture, using rennet properly, controlling temperature, and coloring the cheese.

Easy-to-follow format includes photographs and illustrations, charts, a glossary, a troubleshooting guide, and a resource section that lists equipment vendors and newsletters related to cheesemaking.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 9, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882662678
• ISBN-13: 978-0882662671
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #936,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but can be confusing to a beginner, April 29, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cheesemaking Made Easy: 60 Delicious Varieties (Paperback)

I bought this book along with Barbara Ciletti's "Making Great Cheese" (out of print at the time of this review) and Shane Sokol's "And That's How You Make Cheese!" While this book was good and had many recipes, "And That's How You Make Cheese!" was easier to start with. It has easier, fully explained recipes. It does have fewer recipes, about 30, but all the popular cheeses are included. In short, this is a good book for the experienced, but if you are just starting, try "And That's How You Make Cheese!" first. Or buy both like I did, they'll compliment well.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very informative but of limited practical use, May 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cheesemaking Made Easy: 60 Delicious Varieties (Paperback)

Once upon a time, I tried to get my hands on cheesemaking. Having mastered winemaking and homebrewing with some success and being an avid hobby chef, I thought that can't be too difficult. However, after having bought some basic supplies, I quickly realized that the process of making cheese is far from trivial.
Then I got this book, which was very enlightening in terms of my understanding of how cheese is made, but it helped me little to improve my cheesemaking skills. The best advice I ever got in that pursuit was talking to a Swiss "Senn" in the Glarner Mountains and then I gave up on cheesemaking....
In summary: a nice book if you want some insight into the cheesemaking process, but on the "how-to" side, the book is of limited use once you have gone past your first steps.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cheesemaking Made Easy, October 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cheesemaking Made Easy: 60 Delicious Varieties (Paperback)

I would have liked to have been told that Cheesemaking Made Easy is basically the same book as Home Cheesemaking (by same author), only the latter is new and improved. This is not made clear on the website, and I unfortunately ordered both.