cottage cheese / ricotta cheese - how to make

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Kimmo, of "at wits end homestead" in Victor, Montana, shows us his technique for making cottage cheese. And then he uses the whey from the cottage cheese to make ricotta cheese.

He uses milk straight from the cow, adds some rennet and lets it sit for five hours. This makes for a really sweet cheese.

After the cheese chunks are sorta diced, he puts it all in a bigger pot to warm it a bit. About 90 minutes later he strains it so he has cottage cheese and whey. He boils the whey, adds apple cider vinegar and PRESTO! he has ricotta cheese.

The rest of the whey will be for feeding the pigs.

music by Jimmy Pardo

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Education

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• cottage
• cheese
• ricotta
• fromage
• cook
• recipe
• cooking
• food
• milk
• cow
• rennet
• dairy
• whey
• green
• eco
• permaculture
• organic
• how to

[marthale7]

So this is whole milk from a cow, not from a store right ? Looks great.

[paulwheaton12]

@marthale7 Yup - straight from the cow!

[signalrambo]

Why does the cheese-cook-guy talk so funny? Is he a first gen European?

[paulwheaton12]

@signalrambo he's from finland!

[coffmanclan]

Thank you just made both this morning.. Did not have to waist my whey but made the ricotta as well.

[RiseofBane]

i love that sound of knife. Very pleasant to my ear!

[SquaredBarry]

@paulwheaton12 Moi!



[psybaron]

the milk from the cow, is it cooked or raw-raw? :)

[rensi7]

He should have asked other people in room to keep quiet



[leftunattended]

Thanks SO very much for doing this!  Great job w/the show and tell!

[Runswithspatula]

What temp did the milk come to in order for the cottage cheese to form and how long does it take to get to that point? Thanks

[merlinuhl]

I've done this with vinegar  too (white vinegar?) it works just as well as the rennet!!!

[daisymay891]

I HATE THE SOUND THAT THE KNIFE MAKES AGAINST THE METAL., THE RECIPE IS GOOD, THANKS

[Clybrad1]

Thank you Paul!  Good Video. TSP listener