Mad Millie Italian Cheese Kit
Mozzarella, ricotta, mascarpone and more from your kitchen
The Italian Cheese Kit provides you with everything you need to whip up these Italian favourites quickly in under an hour! Makes over 10 batches of cheese (approx 6kg in total).
Designed to be used in any kitchen. No cheesemaking experience needed! No artificial flavours or preservatives and is vegetarian.
Makes:
- Fresh Italian Mozzarella and Bocconcini (approx 600g/batch)
- Ricotta (approx 400g/batch)
- Ricotta Salata (approx 100g/batch)
- Burrata
- Mascarpone (approx 700g/batch)
Kit Includes:
- Small Ricotta Mould with Draining Container
- Vegetarian Rennet Tablets (10)
- Cheese Salt
- Cheese Cloth
- Citric Acid
- Pipette
- Calcium Chloride
- Steriliser
- Stainless Steel Thermometer
- Kit Instructions and Recipes
The process of cheese making is based on the bacterial cultures converting the lactose in milk to lactic acid.
This process drives the conversion of liquid milk to curds, which eventually becomes cheese. This conversion also causes moisture (whey) to be released.
So when using lactose free milk, while there is no lactose, there is still glucose and galactose, which can be used by the lactic bacteria (not as well as lactose, but enough to acidify the milk, which is what we're doing with cheese making).
Therefore cheeses that do not require starter culture like, ricotta, halloumi, etc are fine as they don't need to do this.
Please note that as an exception, Mozzarella will not work, as it really needs high-quality unhomogenised milk.
For those requiring starter culture, you may see a slightly lower yield that the recipe states and the product may be a little crumblier.
For Halloumi, it won't be as squeaky, and may have a floury texture.
Hope that helps!