Cheese Making Kit - Make 30 Different Artisan Cheeses

This was my first attempt at cheese making! The instructions were simple to follow and everything you need is in the kit. My first batch of Mozarella was”ok” - it looked great but it wasn’t the right texture. The great thing about Cheese monkey, is that they are there to help you and want you to enjoy the experience! After a couple of tips, I realised I had overstirred the rennet - which was the problem!! I like the fact that it will take time to learn the hobby and that you need to make mistakes before you nail it! If you get it first time, where is the fun in that!! What is great though, is that with cheese monkey you do have a support network. It’s a great product and a great service. I even got a free gift of a bacon curing set!!

It’s a gift for my friend and her birthday isn’t until end October and just hoping she’ll like it…..her husband hates cheese…..😂😂. Box smaller than anticipated but not sure how much bigger I had in mind. I’m sure, going by other reviews, it’s going to be a hit.

This is a good starter kit for anyone looking to dip their toe in the cheese making world. Super easy instructions in realistic quantities designed for homemade cheese. The only reason for 4 & not 5 star relates to the cheese types. The book gives a recipe for Ricotta and Greek salad cheese however, they are more stylised. Once you youtube the recipes you'll soon realise but hay, if your just starting who cares.

Great gift

Bought as a present, came quickly and well packaged. When opened it seemed smaller than thought it would be. It’s just well packaged so no space in size left to waste so can all be fitted in a small box. So really it’s eco friendly as no excess packaging. The instructions in side are very easy to use. Very clear and easy to understand all the way through. There is every thing you need to make the cheese except milk. You need to provide your own milk. It’s great kit fun to make the cheese and great to see your end product. And even better to try it with a glass of wine lol.

The recipe book and guidance was really cool, great range of cheeses to make and ideas for recipes. Looks like good quality items all neatly packaged. (Thermometer was different to the image on the site and well hidden at the bottom of the box so I nearly thought it had been missed out of the kit but I was wrong. All was present and correct 👍)

I had always wanted to give cheese making a try but thought it was more difficult that what it really is. Yes, there are many types and textures but this kit explains it all very well and is a great guide.

Great fun for all, I outdoor have loved a cloth instead of plastic muslin, as you must boil the equipment to kill bacteria, you can smell that ever so slight nasty burnt plastic smell when you do it, and I think it would make such a big difference. I would also prefer smaller quantities in the recipes as it's not practical to make such a huge batch of cheese in a small family kitchen although it's easy enough to do the math to reduce the quantities, you can second guess yourself and make mistakes. I really enjoyed the Labneh recipe as it's so easy, and I never even thought you could do that. Could I also suggest keeping the yogurt whey for Ayran, a great stomach settler! All in all a really fun and quality purchase and I would highly recommend it to anyone who would like a change. Get yourself a lot of milk in as you'll be desperate to try everything all at once!