How Dutch Gouda Is Made At A 100-Year-Old Family Farm | Regional Eats

[Music] every year 650 million kilos of gouda cheese are produced in the netherlands most of it is produced industrially using pasteurized milk but there are some exceptions we're here to visit one of the few farms that is still producing traditional raw milk gouda cheese we make a real farming cheese on this farm and we are specialized in old in aged cheese and the taste will really be special when it's aged this place is actually quite remote we're like immersed in nature and we're actually on an island we had to take a small boat and uh cross the canal in order to get here do i go back we're in the right direction maybe not very coordinated no how do you grow [Music] and the woman that is producing the cheese is actually doing it in her own house which is this one behind me depending on whether you're a native you will pronounce it either gouda or chowda so since we're talking about authentic that's cheese we're going to call it hauda the cheese takes its name from the city of hauda in south holland but unlike with all the cheeses there are named after cities there was never any cheese making in hauden in the middle ages houda acquired salt cheese market rights basically becoming the only city in the country where farmers could trade their cheese how that was associated so much with the cheese so there that it was eventually named after the city the how that cheese market was started in 1395. today it is one of the most popular attractions in the netherlands [Music] there are only 280 farmers across the country still making raw milk boring cars or farmer's cheese and there are only two farms that take their cheese to the next level making buren gauze upperclass or aged artisanal chowdham a special type of raw milk farmhouse cheese that must weight at least 20 kilograms and can be made only in the summer with cattle grazing in the greenheart region between the cities of amsterdam rotterdam and utrecht meet mariah van der poe who lives on an island in the village of right battering in south holland with her husband hugo and their three children and makes 15 wheels of aged artisanal houda every day at the back of their house the family from the pool started here in 1932 so my husband's grandfather grandmother they started here and we still make cheese on the same way on the authentic way of cheese making and in 1965 his father and mother they came here they married and they came and start also and they make cheese we start living here in 1996 we get married and my mother-in-law she make she learned me how to make cheese and now so i do it now for 23 years on my own we have 150 cows and we milk them twice a day the cheese is made from cold milk from the previous day and warm milk that's fresh every morning i wake up at 10 to 6 and my husband uh wake up at 4 15 he calls the cows out of the land and they come and then at five o'clock he starts milking them and in the evening before he also milked the cows and then when i wake up at ten to six first thing i do i make the milk sour and then at seven o'clock i have about three thousand a bit more milk liters and then i put some rennet to it and when you put some rennet to it the milk will get thick in 30 minutes it's real special every morning so when i leave the milk rest for 30 minutes after that short time you can cut it really slowly and when you cut it the fresh cheese will go down and the whey will up we bring the whey away we spread it all over our land and the real fresh cheese we keep stirring sterling and slowly we bring it back to the temperature of the cows up to 37 degrees not higher because we make raw milk cheese the process of adding warm water to the cheese called washing the curd is generally used to make the cheese sweeter washing the curd removes lactose which bacteria could transform into acid blocks of curd are then pressed together into wooden molds with the help of linen [Music] clothes still use the moles of my husband's grandfather and grandmother the wooden moles is real special to make cheese there are only a few cheese makers in holland who still use wooden molds it's because we think the wooden malls is the best to make old aged cheese because the wooden moles keep the warmth inside and that's the best that the for the taste so the taste after two years is really special you can still make slices of it after two years and that's real special there are only two farmers in holland who make this cheese so that's really really special each wheel has a unique flake made from milk protein with information about where and when it was produced the curds are pressed in the wooden molds for two hours on each side in the evening they are moved to brines it's a natural way to bring salt into the wheels and water slowly only a few out of the wheels and that's different of the factories because in the factories where they make cheese they bring salt uh during the making process and we do it on an authentic way in a salty butt so really slowly cheese wheels stay 5 days in the salty baths then dry for 24 hours the wanderpool family keeps them for a week in their farm where they are covered by a biological coating we put a coating on it three times every site because it's easier to keep them clean and then every week a trader is collecting about 90 wheels up here and he keep them in big trader houses warehouses i think warehouses for a long time and he aged them because we are good in making cheese and he is good in aging cheese hoda has to age for at least 28 days this specialty the aged artisanal hauda ages for at least 2 years but some wheels can age longer and there are no farmers who take the risk to to keep the cheese as long as we do in warehouses so it's really special [Music] this is a perfect it looks perfect only a few small holes so the teeth looked at you like eyes only if you and you see the crystals all the people think they are salty crystals but it's protein crystals mariah's cut is a slice of a three year old cheese and as you can see from the texture is actually quite soft and it's something that i wasn't expecting coming from a cheese that has been aged for three years like three years is such a long time and i would expect it to be like hard there but here it is let's give it a try it's got like real real milk milky cheesy taste like no no salt at all and it's sort of like nutty caramel like like it reminds me a bit of parmesan in a way but in the sense that like it kind of touches the same taste buds but texture-wise is completely different like this one is softer and it melts more in your mouth it's buttery authentic dutch howda is protected by the eu's protected geographical indication under the name hauda holland this certifies that the cheese comes from holland and has been made traditionally with dutch milk real life is a real gym uh

Channel: Food Insider

Views: 11,659,433

Rating: 4.8975062 out of 5

Keywords: UK, raw-milk boerenkaas, INSIDER, Gouda, aged artisanal gouda, Boeren Goudse Oplegkaas, Cheese, Netherlands, Video, Holland, FOOD INSIDER, Original

Id: ImpROVueIcE

Length: 9min 34sec (574 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/mmccaskill]

Maybe a silly question: Is it possible to get this lady's cheese in the US? Like do they export?

[u/BoringPersonAMA]

Really special! God this woman is so adorable. I bet that cheese is amazing too.

[u/kombatunit]

We are like immersed in nature

That surprises me that a non-native english speaker has picked up a case of the likes.

[u/cfranco11]

The lady talking about her cheese is so adorable she’s something really special 🥰

[u/dma1965]

I really love all the cheese in Amsterdam. You can walk by shops that have wheels piled high in windows and stop in for a sample. It’s especially delicious after a visit to a coffeeshop.

[u/chubbycatchaser]

There’s something about cheese wheels that makes me inexplicably happy. Something about a block of protein that excites the primitive-human brain inside.

[u/nameless_thirteenth]

I enjoyed this.

[u/Apple-Phone]

“We specialize in old....uh.. fff.. in AGED... cheese...”

Smooth

[u/therewasalittlegirl]

This short video is very well made - just like their beautiful cheese. It’s eye-opening to realize that only 2 family farms have kept those old traditions alive. I’m certain that the authenticity of their aged Gouda tastes AMAZING!