Customer Reviews

Beyond Gourmet Ubleached Cheesecloth

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

Was not a tightly woven a cheese cloth as I had purchased before. Could not use it for straining, even doubled, tripled over. Maybe I overlooked something in the description. I'm not a cheese cloth expert.

This is not real cheesecloth. Cheap with a looser weave than most metal strainers. Only useful for cooking meat maybe, not working with dairy products.

While the material itself may deserve praise, the functionality definitely does not. Yes, in four folds it will strain my soured milk from the whey, but it gets tangled and stretched too easily and with four folds cleaning it is very tough. Ive found it best to simply use a piece of cotton such as a t-shirt or a very thin towel which can be washed and reused with much less hassle. A fine cheesecloth also works much better.

I've been looking for fine cheesecloth, and thought this would be good to throw into my order since I could get it with free shipping. The conflicting reviews were concerning, but I decided to take the plunge for $4.

Bottom line, this is NOT cheesemaking cloth. It wouldn't even rate as bandage gauze. If you're looking for something to strain particles out, this is not it (unless the particles are the size of lentils or popcorn kernels). If you're looking for a cleaning rag, this might be your choice.

This cheese cloth is great price for coarse weave. I use for wrapping meat for aging. You must pay 2-3 times the price for the fine weave needed for straining. Try another source if that is your need.

Try to strain soy milk with this product. You will find yourself covered with soy milk, your hands burnt, your wallet lightened, your mouth full of insults. The trouble with this product is that this is, let's face it, a cheesecloth wannabe, without any real chance to make it in the real world of cheecloths. And here you are, paying the price of this wannabe's unrealistic ambitions. THERE IS TOO MUCH SPACE BETWEEN THREADS! Sorry, but someboy had to tell you, cheesecloth wannabe. Now go and get a job as a mop, you just do not have it in you...

This stuff is feathery garbage, not real cheesecloth. I don't know how they can get away selling it. Real cheesecloth is almost fabric-like: in fact people used to wear real cheesecloth as clothes. Cheesecloth should look and feel like cloth: is should resemble muslin (which is a good substitute). I gave this one star because I could not give it no stars. Don't think you are going o get good results with this stuff: it cannot stand up to straining large amounts of soup and it is far too flimsy to use in real cheesemaking.

This cloth is just too thin. You need to double and triple layer it for many uses. It works, but it just isn't as nice as a higher quality piece of cloth.

This is not even close to cheesecloth. It's worse then bad. Unfortunately I couldn't use it for its intended purpose which is to make cheese. I compared this to gauze from a medical kit, and the gauze was actually closer knit.

I used this for making Paneer (Indian Cheese) and it worked well for that purpose. I did not give it 5 stars because I think cloth quality could have been a bit better but then I was not using for the purpose it is made for.