Little Green Cheese | Cheese Making at Home

A bit of a deviation from the normal format.  I took the opportunity to capture a bit of history and interviewed my father, John Webber.  It is about life on a dairy farm 1970s.

He used to run a dairy…

A cracker of a show this week.  I talk about the recent event where mozzarella hits mainstream TV in the show My Kitchen Rules, which has big ratings here in 
Australia.

I then go on to talk about how …

This weeks episode focuses on making and maintaining your brine, which is an essential step in making some hard cheeses.  I have even seen brine used to salt Camembert.

The good news is that you do no…

This episode is all about maturing your cheese.  How to do it, what to mature it in, when to wax and when to vacuum pack, and how to keep the humidity high.

Also just a minor correction.  When I menti…

Starting the year off with a bang by listing my three cheese making goals for 2014.

The goals are as follows;

• Perfect at least two mould ripened cheeses in 2014
• Teach a new cheesemaking course other tha…

Today I had the pleasure of talking to an experienced home cheesemaker, Ian Treuer.  He lives in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

Ian has a successful cheesemaking blog called Much To Do About Cheese, and it…

During this episode, we learn about air drying and turning cheese after it has been pressed or brined.

These important processes can make or break your cheese, and I find that most cheese books pay sc…

During this episode, I describe fifteen uses for whey that you may be wondering what to do with after cheese making. One of the uses I mentioned
was to make whey ricotta; http://youtu.be/1fdYZ8T45JE

T…

This episode is all about my favourite soft cheese, and how simple they are to make.

I step through the process of making your first few soft kinds of cheese, and what type of milk you should use. Rem…

Our guest this episode is Mark Brown from Purple Pear Farm at Maitland, NSW Australia. He makes cheese on their organic 14-acre farm to feed the WWOOFers 
(Willing Workers on Organic Farms) who regula…

Hey curd nerds, ready for another great episode?  Our guest this week is Nigel 
Laubsch from Perth in Western Australia. Nigel makes his own cheese at home, and also talks us through his process of ma…

My guest on the show this week is Debra Allard from Burringbar, New South Wales. She is a keen cheese maker, once started a cheese making business, but now teaches cheesemaking classes in her area.

Yo…

Our guest this episode is Sue Roberts from Flowerdale in Northwest Tasmania.

Sue has made over 20 different cheeses at home, and writes at http://thepreservingpatch.blogspot.com.au.  It is a great blo…

A great interview with a passionate home cheesemaker who lives in NSW, Australia.  Carole Castles has made over 150 kinds of cheese from the milk produced by her two very own Jersey Cows.

We have a gr…

Today I talk all about milk, how it is processed, and its composition.  I also cover off the best milk for cheese making, and what types of milk that you should 
avoid.

The episode also includes a news…

My guest this week is Sharon Bailey from South Australia. She is up to her 39th cheese made right in her very own kitchen, so we catch up and have a great chat about all things cheese!

The listener qu…

 This episode is all about starter cultures.  There are two main types, Mesophilic and Thermophilic.  But did you know that there are many different properties to these cultures? I attempt to explain…

In this episode of the podcast, I give 10 tips for successful cheese making at home.

The news feature this week can be found at The Globe and Mail http://tinyurl.com/ktn7mut.  It features Adam Blancha…

This week’s episode includes a great interview with my friend David Dawson who lives in Manitoba, Canada. We had a great chat about cheesemaking in general, including his many wonderful kinds of chee…

A great show this week. I interview Gürkan Yeniçeri who has a cheese and deli blog: artizanpeynirci.blogspot.com. His blog is in Turkish, so you may need to use Google Translate.

You can also find Gür…