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9 HD Video Lessons
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Mary Karlin
Mary is a seasoned cooking teacher who was a founding member of the Ramekins Culinary School in Sonoma, Calif. She enjoys sharing her expertise and is the author of Artisan Cheese Making at Home.
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Chevre, Mozzarella & Cheddar
with Mary Karlin
Mary Karlin, author of Artisan Cheese Making at Home, shows food enthusiasts how to create three flavorful handmade cheeses in your home kitchen.
A note from Mary Karlin, instructor of Artisan Cheese Making: Chevre, Mozzarella & Cheddar
I am so excited to be here at Craftsy to share my adaptations of traditional cheese making techniques with you. In my online Craftsy class, Artisan Cheese Making: Chevre, Mozzarella & Cheddar, learn how to create a goat's milk cheese, a stretched cheese, and an aged cheese. We'll begin by choosing the very best ingredients. After all, great cheese starts with great ingredients and techniques. Then, I teach basic cheese making skills such as curd formation, draining, pressing, ripening, shaping and more! From there, learn how to embellish, coat, and age your cheese. By the end of this class (with a bit more time allotted for aging), you will have three delicious cheeses that are sure to impress your friends and family!
What You Will Learn in Artisan Cheese Making: Chevre, Mozzarella & Cheddar
- How to choose ingredients and supplies that yield the best results
- How to begin your cheese-making adventure using basic techniques
- How to inoculate and ripen the milk used for these cheeses
- How to wax or wrap cheese to prepare it for the aging process
What You Will Make in Artisan Cheese Making: Chevre, Mozzarella & Cheddar
- Soft, goat's milk cheese coated with your choice of herbs, spices or leaves
- Traditional cultured mozzarella, first soaked in hot whey, then stretched to create texture
- A farmhouse cheddar dotted with chives and aged to perfection
What You'll Need:
- Cheese molds
- Drain mat
- Rennet
- Cheesecloth or butter muslin
- Non-reactive, 6-quart stock pot
- Instant-read or dairy thermometer
- Flexible wire, long handle stainless steel whisk
- Mesh strainer or colander
- Stainless steel slotted spoon or ladle
- 2 stainless bowls
- Heat resistant neoprene-coated or latex gloves
- Pasteurized goat's milk
- Direct-set mesophilic C20G starter
- 1 5-pack C20G Chevre Starter
- 1 Pack Herbes d'Provence
- Fine sea salt
- Pasteurized (non-homogenized) whole cow's milk
- White distilled vinegar (5 percent acidity)
- Kosher salt
- Liquid wax
- Brush
- Cheese wax
Special offer: Created exclusively for Mary Karlin's Artisan Cheese Making class, this chevre kit includes the essentials you need to start making your own cheese at home with the Artisan Cheese Course Kit (Chevre).
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 15:06 |
| 2 | Essential Tools & Ingredients | 42:22 |
| 3 | Starting Chevre | 20:26 |
| 4 | Finishing Chevre | 37:21 |
| 5 | Mozzarella | 1:09:56 |
| 6 | Starting Cheddar | 17:34 |
| 7 | Making Cheddar | 44:32 |
| 8 | Finishing Cheddar | 26:32 |
| 9 | Drying, Ripening, Aging | 33:04 |
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Great class
Darn you Mary, I did not need another hobby, but I am hooked after taking this class. Decided to give up weaving for cheese making. Fortunately we have a raw goat dairy 5 minutes from us and I got on the list. After taking this class, I have made several out of your book and have only had 2 flops (my mistake). Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Can't wait for the fermentation book in August!
Chevre Delight
My first attempt at cheese making and the Chevre has received raves from everyone who has tried it. Very creamy and delicious. This is a very forgiving recipe as I'm sure I attacked the curds before they had firmed sufficiently but the result was great anyway.
Great Class!
This is a wonderful class! I consider myself a 'craftsy' kind of person, but I never would have tried cheese making on my own. Mary's instructions are clear and easy to follow. I've made Chevre and Mozzarella and look forward to ,making Cheddar next! Thanks Mary!! Really a great class!
Great class
I really enjoyed this class. I can hardly wait to try making cheese.
Great class!
Really enjoyed the class. It helps to see the techniques used vs. just reading instructions in a recipe.
I look forward to future classes.
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