How to Make Mozzarella Cheese (Without Rennet)

hi everyone this is sarah the catholic homemaker today i am showing you how to make mozzarella cheese without rennet with vinegar you can also use lemon juice and i have my husband helping me first you'll need a half gallon of raw milk and we are trying to heat up the milk to 120 to degrees so make sure before that you have your vinegar all ready and you have your supplies all ready to go it looks like we reached that temperature already and we're just stirring it around we turned off the heat and now we're adding a half cup of white distilled vinegar try organic if you want and i can't remember if i just said a quarter cup before but it's definitely a half cup if you're using a half gallon of milk and so the consistency is pretty good the curds are starting to break up right now and you just want to cover that for about five minutes and just let it sit away from the heat okay once that's done you want to take your fine mesh sieve and just take all the curds out and try to get them all clumped together you can use a spatula like i have here so my husband he's just pushing all the cheese down through the sieve and just using a spatula to try to use it you could also use a cheese cloth that would probably be a lot easier than what we are doing but we did not have one available so you just got to use what's available in your kitchen right and that's kind of the whole purpose of this video is i wanted to show a way of being able to make a simple cheese without having to buy special ingredients like rennet or citric acid and i'm sure those could be found at a local store but you definitely want to be careful about how you source your rennet if you want it from a healthy animal traditionally it can also be made in the stomach of a cow but that is very hard if not impossible to source so this is a much simpler way of making mozzarella cheese at home with what you have on hand okay he's just dumping it in the container and now we're just adding salt to the brine or to make it a brine for the bath and i would estimate around a teaspoon and a half and you want to use a good salt in there we use red men real salt but you really just want to salt it to taste because the mozzarella cheese is going to sit in that bath for a little while and it's going to develop that flavor based on what is in that bath so definitely salt it to your liking we're just heating it back up again because it's important for mozzarella cheese to actually be mozzarella cheese it needs to have a certain amount of heat and the temperature of the cheese itself which we are dumping back into the bath needs to be around 135 degrees and i believe the brine needs to be around 180 for the cheese to reach that temperature so you still got to have your thermometer out to see if it's going to be reaching that temperature because if it does not if the cheese does not reach that temperature then it's not going to stretch properly all right so we're looking on here he's actually using the thermometer to see the temperature of the cheese and the cheese is looking to be around the right consistency he's squeezing out all that whey once again hold the brine all right we want to put it in an ice bath for a few minutes to cool it down so it really can take a good shape all right now it's really stretching like mozzarella cheese that is the consistency you're looking for and he's just forming it into a nice ball now how do you guys like to enjoy your mozzarella let me know in the comments i love it so many different ways it's my favorite cheese it's my husband's favorite cheese it's my daughter's favorite cheese and i love it as a caprese salad we love it so many different ways but that's a nice way to enjoy this fresh mozzarella ball and i hope you guys enjoyed this video found it to be helpful and please like this video subscribe to my channel hit the notification bell for all notifications so you know when i post and until next time bye and god bless you you

Channel: The Catholic Homemaker

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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020