🧀 Unleash Your Inner Cheesemonger!
The Standing Stone Farms Complete Cheese Making Kit is an all-in-one solution for cheese enthusiasts, providing everything needed to create both hard and soft cheeses at home. This kit includes high-quality ingredients like liquid rennet and calcium chloride, essential for achieving authentic artisanal flavors. With easy-to-follow recipes and access to online resources, users can turn 20-25 gallons of milk into preservative-free cheese. The kit also features essential equipment, making it a perfect gift for culinary adventurers.
A**N
This is a great start to making your own homemade cheese!
We just made our first two batches of cheese, the goat cheese and mozzarella.To begin, the wonderful lady in the video included is just wonderful! She explains the process extremely well and does a great job pointing out potential pitfalls and what might go wrong She is just so helpful, we love watching her!Next, the cheese came out great!! Goat cheese is so easy to make and all we needed was the goat milk. Started with just a half gallon, it came out perfectly by watching the videos and reading the instructions. The mozzarella is incredible, took less than an hour, having it on our pizza tonight. Again, thank you so much for the helpful video and instructions.No issues with what is or isn't included, everything but the milk, was in the box and we now have the confidence to make more cheese!
J**P
GREAT!
Just a great starter kit! Would’ve liked just a little more of the ingredients and enzymes I suppose, but really great for the beginner. Customer service was spot on! My first batch of Feta is AMAZING!
D**R
Good starter kit - suggest other items to be included, especially those she recommends and uses in her video.
After watching the included video, we made the Quick Mozzarella as our first cheese making endeavor. It came out fine. It was a bit harder than we liked. The video states how important it is that you do certain steps at specific temperatures. The thermometer that came with the kit is very difficult to read to those exact temperatures. In the video, she uses a digital thermometer. That should be included in the kit. Also in the video, she mentions that she much prefers using kid (goat) lipase vs. calf lipase - yet, again, she includes the calf lipase, which we didn't really like the taste of in the mozzarella. Next time we'll try making it without any lipase. It's a good starter kit. After using it the first time, though, we created a list of items we need to buy in order that we're more successful with the final product(s). It would have been nice if they were included.
A**I
Very nice starter kit and excellent customer service!
I was talking to a friend today who was interested in making cheese from scratch and recommended that she buy the same kit I bought back in 2016. In fact, I told her I would look up the kit I bought and send her the link. I then realized that I had never posted a review on how much I loved the kit! So... better late than never! The kit is just wonderful, and once you make cheese from scratch, you will be hooked forever! You get everything you need, and the DVD is very helpful if you have never made cheese before, which was me. My first attempt was mozzarella and it turned out delicious, far better than any mozzarella I had ever had before. But the most incredible thing was that I had questions along the way and contacted the company. They were so helpful and emailed me immediately with the answers. Then, when I lost my cookbook, they sent me a digital copy by email. I cannot tell you how much I love this company. You might find someone on the internet who sells products for a cheaper price, but there is no one out there with better service! And they definitely have the experience to help you with any problems you may encounter!
L**E
Very unhappy with this kit
This kit is a big waste of money. I am truly unhappy with it. I can enumerate some basic flaws:1). The instruction pamphlet is very skimpy and incomplete;2). The "stainless steel pot, I doubt that it is stainless steel. Stainless steel holds a magnet, this pot does not. It's a cheap pot I had to buy a new 1 to get a stainless steel pot that worked on a convection stove. That pot is NFS and bigger & beautiful;3). The tiny thermometer is not digital & is impossible o read;4). It doesn't include a curd knife;5). This kit includes cheese making wax;6). There is a brush (boar bristles) for applying wax;7). it doesn't include a press with the lame e cues that all cheese presses "cost hundreds of dollars (I am sure I haven't remembered everything but I think is a lot).I think those reasons alone demonstrate this isn't a "complete cheese making kit. I became so disgusted at I ordered the ultimate she else making kit from Leeners. What a difference! Leeners kit was clearly superior. It includes a book of cheese making that is very complete. This kit is clearly far superior. It includes a professional curd knife, a digital cheese thermometer, a number of different baskets for shaping different cheeses, and fancy this it has a cheese press that is very nice! It has the cheese cloth & ingredients as does this one. It doesn't offer the pot but as I indicated I found a beautiful pot on Amazon for under $30 & if u don't have an induction stove I would venture to guess you can find a perfect pot for less money.You need to make your own decision of course; but I wanted to make sure you had all the facts on both kits as Leeners kit doesn't describe what the kit contains and I think that's a shame. I found the Leeners kit to be amazing. The box is much bigger that this one because it offers so much more. Also Leeners is available 7 days a week and very helpful. I already ran into a problem and called them. They were very helpful & encouraged me to call whenever I needed help. And you ca make hard cheese with their kit as well as soft cheese!Hope this review helps you with your decision.
T**Y
The DVD is everything!
On opening I was thinking I spent too much for so little, but it really is the perfect sampler of products in a scale you would really want to sample with. Anyway, great collection and the DVD is worth everything! Truly well done and informative! A book can only do so much…but this narrative with her hands on explanations are priceless! No way to screw up your cheese if you watch and listen! Happy cheesemaking!
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