Tuesday 26 August 2008

The results are in

The cheeses have been tasted and overall the results were fairly good. In order of merit we have the Garlic and parsley cheese, the black pepper cheese and finally the plain cheese. Out of the five tasters, 80 % preferred the garlic variety with just one vote for the peppered cheese.

All the cheeses had a good firm texture and cut well, unfortunately the plain cheese (Golden Udder) had a slightly sour taste. I'm not really sure what could have caused this, maybe the temperature was slightly too high, I will look into it and post back. This sourness was not noticeable in the other cheeses, we will make up a new batch of starter culture and maybe try the next batch at a lower temperature.

The Tasters choice Award goes to Golden Garlic Udder

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully no one is going to be casued any illness by our first cheeses!

Anonymous said...

I'm happy to report I have so far suffered no ill effects, I'll keep you posted though!

Rob W said...

really impressed
looks great

two questions...

1. where did you get the starter and the rennet?

2. looks as if you're eating it very young... will you be trying to mature any of your cheese?