UK milk suitable for making cheese?

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nicodvb on 30 May 2020 at 06:33

Hi Brits,

can someone reccommend a store-brand milk suitable for making cheese that is known to work, please?

The dough must be kneaded and finally stretch (like for making mozzarella), so the yogurth-style curd that is obtained with so many UHT milk brands is not what I'm searching.

I don't have time and patience to test all milk brands around :-)

Thanks.

 

Sainsburys taste the difference jersey milk is unhomogenised, so is good for cheese making. If you can find it its 85p for 750ml. Or go to Map of raw milk suppliers and see if there's a raw milk supplier near you. Usually charge around £1 a litre.

Happy hunting

Avoid Ultra pasteurization, which is conducted at 300F.  The other choice is Pasteurized milk which will work at it only goes to 140F.  Label will say which it is in the U.S.  So just read the label as dairy farms are regional.  Would think it works the same way in the U.K.  The label should disclose...

Cheers,

Nick

Easy to spot in the UK, its labelled UHT, and tastes, IMO, not very pleasant. 

So, avoid any UHT, try to find unhomogenised or go raw.

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nicodvb on 31 May 2020 at 03:05

Thanks!

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-jersey-milk--taste-the-difference-750ml?catalogId=10241&productId=115090&storeId=10151&langId=44&krypto=uPCElXCBZ5%2FpgknB8JFnp%2FN2CRZhNJ%2FiMV49d3yWnbZkTyFqaRur7z4dpEvamSuFp5Js7M0EHLmKdnKC%2FC5cvLlEOOgmRIRyZiDyOvZ786SAlILr8xsA5jllXq92fHTFngu12PJ9kKLv9feI%2BIU%2BQh%2Fk9VB%2B0w8MxeLSxQy3b1nMILr1nkaLXYH4jL9A2r6R83a0ePZ4nRJ%2FCS6YSVRv5g%3D%3D&ddkey=https%3Agb%2Fgroceries%2Fsainsburys-jersey-milk--taste-the-difference-750ml

 

It reads unhomogenised, that is the key.

Thanks for the heads up, Frank550. Funnily enough, I've just tried to make mozzarella with Tesco pasteurised whole milk, but it was a miserable failure - despite adding 0.02% calcium chloride and achieving the right pH, I ended up with a "heavy ricotta", as I will call it.

Next attempt, I'll see if I can get hold of some of the Sainsbury's Jersey milk.

Lance