Cheese-Making Course (Sunday 7th March)
Make cheese with an expert
Spend a day learning how to make cheese in this purpose-built cheese dairy. These cheese-making courses are taught by industry expert Andy Swinscoe.
You’ll be guided through the background science and technical theory of how to make cheeses, and then experience hands-on cheese-making of two distinctly different cheeses.
And you’ll get to take home the cheese you made.
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The course runs from 9.30 am – 3.30 pm, and includes lunch.
The course is detailed and covers all the basics of cheese-making, combining a hands-on approach with some theory classroom work.
The subjects covered include: milk composition; use of rennet; selecting and using ripening cultures and starter bacteria; setting the curd; cutting, draining and stirring the curd; moulding, milling and pressing the curd; and cheese ageing. You will make two types of cheese: hard ‘Cheddar-style’ and soft ‘lactic’.
The course also includes three recipes to take away, plus additional course material to give you pointers about sourcing equipment for both home and commercial use, and further learning.
Each course is for up to twelve participants, with each participant using separate cheese vats and moulding equipment to ensure everyone gets a full experience. The course is held at The Courtyard Dairy.
If you would like to give this course as a gift, gift vouchers are available for a specific cheese-making course date, or a general voucher redeemable against any date [click here]. To get a voucher sent out, simply request a voucher in the ‘Special Instructions’ at checkout.
If you can’t make this date: future cheese-making dates will follow, with roughly one course run per month. Please ring (01729 823291) for more details.
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What a fantastic day thank you to Andy whose knowledge of cheese is absolutely incredible and is a really lovely guy. Also thankyou to all of the team who are involved in helping to make this a really unique and enjoyable day which I had received as a gift from my husband for Christmas. It was a wonderful opportunity to learn all about cheesemaking first in the classroom, and then in the cheese making room where we got to participate in what we had learned and took part in making different cheeses which we got to take home. Lunch was absolutely delicious with homemade soup, local artisan bread from the adjacent bakery and the opportunity to sample some delicious cheeses.
Highly recommended by me for all cheese lovers 🧀
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