Anyone make goat milk mozzarella? I need help.

[Melinda S in TX]

I can't get my goat milk mozzarella to turn out. After I add the rennet, the milk pretty immediately gets grainy, but never globs. I've let it sit an extra thirty minutes per the recipe. I've tried more and less rennet. It just won't work. The recipe works well with fresh cow's milk.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Blessings,

Melinda

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What am I doing wrong?

 

Well, the way I make my mozzarella cheese is by going to the store, picking up a package, putting it in the cart, paying for it, taking it home, and sticking it in the fridge.

 

So I'm no help; just wanted to say I think it's cool that people actually make their own cheese. :D

[Critter]

If the milk is ultra pastuerized that might cause trouble. Are you using liquid rennet? Are you using a recipe specifically for goat's milk?

[Melinda S in TX]

If the milk is ultra pastuerized that might cause trouble. Are you using liquid rennet? Are you using a recipe specifically for goat's milk?

 

This is raw goats milk from our goats. For goats milk, I was told to let it age to let it become more acidic. This milk is four days old.

 

I use rennet tablets.

 

The recipe says for cow or goat milk, but if you use goat it may need the extra time to glob up. But mine never globs up, and we end up using it as salad cheese.

 

Blessings,

Melinda

[Melinda S in TX]

Well, the way I make my mozzarella cheese is by going to the store, picking up a package, putting it in the cart, paying for it, taking it home, and sticking it in the fridge.

 

So I'm no help; just wanted to say I think it's cool that people actually make their own cheese. :D

 

Currently, that is the way I make my mozzarella too:001_smile: But mostly we do without, because I am bound and determined to figure this out.

 

It would really be cool if it would turn out. I'm tired of salad cheese crumbles.

 

Blessings,

Melinda

[Anne Van Fossen]

We make lots of feta with our goat milk but not mozzarella. I've heard that mozzarella is much harder. Have you looked at the Fiasco Farms web site? They have very detailed instructions on making mozzarella. Haven't tried it myself though.

 

Anne

[Critter]

Do you have Ricki Carroll's book Home Cheese Making? The recipe for goat milk mozzarella is very different than the cow milk recipe. I had a lot of trouble making cheese with rennet tablets, so I only use liquid rennet now and the batch turns out every time.

[Carol in Cal.]

When I make mozzerella, I use citric acid as well as rennet. This is using cow's milk, though.