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Homemade Mozzarella

October 22, 2015 by jessa 6 Comments

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Make your own mozzarella. It's so easy and quick.

Homemade mozzarella cheese is actually quite easy and fun to make and you get rewarded with delicious fresh cheese!

Let’s start with the fact that I love cheese. No, I mean I really, really love cheese. I love cheese on sandwiches, cheese on meat,  cheese in cake, cheese on popcorn, and cheese with so so so many other things. So when I found this Gourmet Mozzarella Cheese Kit from Makers Kit (sadly, no longer available, but this Mozzarella Cheesemaking Kit looks just as good!). I thought it would be a fun Christmas gift for some of the other cheese lovers in my life. It’s cute and fits into a stocking. Plus, it’s like giving an experience. Not like giving a trip across Europe type experience, but still, a cheese making experience. But with these kind of things, it’s best to try it for yourself before you give it. Right? Well I think I might have found myself a new hobby. Seriously.

Homemade Mozzarella - I will never buy premade mozzarella again

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I can honestly say that I was nervous about making cheese. I kept thinking I was going to be wasting a gallon of milk and a bunch of time. Well, it turned out I did neither. I made the cheese, it turned out great, and it really didn’t take very much time at all. Like maybe 30 minutes. I’m not going to lie, I was pretty proud of myself. The kit from Makers Kit, had the instructions, a dairy thermometer, rennet, citric acid and some Italian spices…all packaged together in a cute little milk jar. It was too easy.

What?! Homemade mozzarella was amazing and super quick to make.

Supplies:

1 gallon organic whole milk (make sure it is NOT ultrapasturized, otherwise it won’t curdle)

Mozzarella Cheese Making Kit (affiliate link)

salt (cheese salt, Kosher salt, whatever salt)

Large pot

colander

measuring spoons and cups

rubber gloves

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

Immediately after adding the citric acid there was a little curdling, which you can see on the spoon.

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

After adding the rennet, a huge amount of curdling happened. It was like magic. At least I thought it was pretty darn cool.

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

After the allotted time for resting after adding the rennet was up, I started to get nervous. You have to cut up the curd to help separate the whey. The cheese in the YouTube videos I watched appeared firmer. But I kept on trucking…and it worked out just fine. I did a second batch and followed the directions a little closer and it looked the way it was supposed to. Totally my error, but it turned out great anyhow!

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

Half way through the process, like Little Miss Muffet, eating playing with curds and whey. I didn’t eat it at this stage. Hey, does anyone have a tuffet I can borrow?

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

I can’t believe how much whey/water was in that milk.

Homemade Mozzarella - Have you tried making your own cheese? I was was a little scared, but I did it and it was awesome!

The fun part is stretching the chesse. Oh an this is the time to add some Kosher salt to it too.

Homemade mozzarella cheese? It's so easy and delicious!

At this point it gets molded into a ball, or whatever shape. I kind of wanted to make it into a pumpkin shape or brain…you know, for Halloween. Or a wreath shape at Christmas. Oooh I’m getting ideas!

Homemade mozzarella, crusty bread, heirloom tomatoes, fresh basil and olive oil and vinegar. Delicious!

Slice up that homemade mozzarella, add some crusty bread, heirloom tomatoes, fresh basil, oil and vinegar and fire up the grill! It. Tastes. Amazing.

Grilled caprese bites with homemade mozzarella.

Have you ever made cheese? Do you think you’d like homemade mozzarella?

 

 

 

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  1. Helen Fern

    May 15, 2016 at 7:48 am

    Thanks for sharing at the “What’s for Dinner” party!

    Reply
  2. Leigh

    May 16, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    I”ve made farmer’s cheese before but never mozzarella. This looks so yummy!
    Blessings, Leigh

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    • jessa

      May 16, 2016 at 6:00 pm

      It really tastes amazing and there are so many ways to add flavor to it!

      Reply
  3. Martin @ The Why Chef

    May 22, 2016 at 4:35 am

    Have you tried making it with different kinds of milk? I really want to make this but was wondering if supermarket milk Vs a long trip to get some proper fresh farmers milk was worth the extra miles!

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    • jessa

      May 22, 2016 at 12:02 pm

      I have not tried with different kinds of milk, but I think it would be absolutely worth experimenting!

      Reply
  4. Jenna

    August 4, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    Wow! I’ve always been curious about making my own cheese but too intimidated to try it.

    Reply

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