gjetostesque
Jan. 24th, 2005 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationI have successfully reduced nearly two gallons of whey down to about a cup and a half of light brown carmelized lumpy stuff not entirely unlike gjetost.
It tastes pretty good. I don't know if it'll set up and be solid like storebought gjetost or if it'll remain sort of spreadable or what, but it appears that the left-over whey experience was a success.
In the meantime, a wheel of cheddar-like substance is in the other room beneath 50 pounds of weight-- two ten-pound barbells, two five-pound barbells, and four reams of paper. In the morning I will carefully unwrap it, photograph it, and let it dry for 2-3 days until it has developed what the cheese books says should be "a nice rind." I will then wax it and let it sit for a month or two. Then, a feast! Or, I suppose, a sad disposal of a frightening fungus colony.
Mmm, cheese. Man, I ache. Slaving over a hot stove all day...
It tastes pretty good. I don't know if it'll set up and be solid like storebought gjetost or if it'll remain sort of spreadable or what, but it appears that the left-over whey experience was a success.
In the meantime, a wheel of cheddar-like substance is in the other room beneath 50 pounds of weight-- two ten-pound barbells, two five-pound barbells, and four reams of paper. In the morning I will carefully unwrap it, photograph it, and let it dry for 2-3 days until it has developed what the cheese books says should be "a nice rind." I will then wax it and let it sit for a month or two. Then, a feast! Or, I suppose, a sad disposal of a frightening fungus colony.
Mmm, cheese. Man, I ache. Slaving over a hot stove all day...
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Date: 2005-01-25 04:57 am (UTC)Now you know how I felt when I was doing all that canning the other summer. :) Good luck with the cheese! Let us know how the gjetost comes out.
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Date: 2005-01-25 04:44 pm (UTC)cool!
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