Starting the year off with a bang by listing my three cheese making goals for 2014.

The goals are as follows;

• Perfect at least two mould ripened cheeses in 2014
• Teach a new cheesemaking course other than Ricotta/Mozzarella
• Make bigger wheels of cheese

Cheese making news this episode is about “Chinese start saying Cheese!”, sourced from the Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinese-starting-to-say-cheese-20130329-2gz3q.html

Listener questions range from pressing with a spring vs raw weight, sticking to time frames within recipes, Parmesan available in my hard cheese making kits, and is the curd cutter that appears in my video tutorials available for sale.

Keep sending in those questions via voicemail and email as I really enjoy answering them on the show.

Also, if you think you have a cheese making story to tell, drop me an email. I would love to have you on the show as my next guest.

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So, until next time curd nerds remember to Keep Calm and Make Cheese!

Today I had the pleasure of talking to an experienced home cheesemaker, Ian Treuer.  He lives in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.

Ian has a successful cheese making blog called Much To Do About Cheese, and it what I really like about it is that he documents not only his excellent successes, but he also shows everyone what can and does go wrong.  Just brilliant.

During the podcast we mentioned a few links that I said I would list in the show notes;

• Ian’s Little Squirrel cheese,
• The link to the “Introduction to Artisan Cheesemaking” course that he is running in March 2014,
• and the link to Gürkan Yeniçeri’s Camembert method and recipe.  You may remember Gürkan when he was a guest on Episode #4 of the podcast.

Left to right – Bacon Jam, Caerphilly, Little Squirrel (back), and Fromage Blanc

Here is a band of Ian’s cheese friends at the gathering.

League of YEG Home Cheesemakers (Ian second from right)

Don’t forget that if you have any questions or comments about anything to do with home cheese making, then you can leave me a voicemail using the tab on the right hand side of the blog.

Also, if you think you have a cheese making story to tell, drop me an email. I would love to have you on the show as my next guest.

If you wish to receive the show on your portable apple device each time I release an episode, you can subscribe via iTunes.

So, until next time curd nerds remember to Keep Calm and Make Cheese!