The venue I use in Western Australia is undergoing renovations and will not be available for several months.
Find out more or enrol in one of these Intensive Cheesemaking Courses by clicking the button below.
There are two types of vouchers available: A cheesemaking course voucher or a dollar value voucher.
A cheesemaking course gift voucher is a unique gift that will provide the recipient with a most memorable experience of making their own cheese and taking those cheese home at the end of the course to enjoy.
A dollar value gift voucher can be used to purchase cheesemaking equipment or it can go towards an Intensive Cheesemaking Course.
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We will be shipping orders as per usual over the Christmas and New Year period. Please keep in mind the closure of post offices on public holidays.
We will not be sending orders out on Thursdays and Fridays. When placing an order, it may be helpful if you specify a specific date that you want your order to be posted.
Kellie has only been making cheese since April. It is an outstanding range of cheeses that she has made in such a short time. Her Trilogy recipe is attached if you want to make a cheese with a difference. Plus, she also makes lots of other goodies, not just cheese…
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The Intensive Cheesemaking courses 1 and 2 will resume as soon as the Covid-19 cases start to get to a more manageable level. Everyone at each of the courses needs to feel safe while we are making cheese. The schools where I hold the courses are understandably very cautious about letting outsiders onto their premises and there are travel restrictions depending on the location you are coming from or returning to after the course.I am hoping to be able to host courses later in 2020 for some locations, but I cannot say that with any certainty.
A Brisbane course is about to be scheduled for late September or early October.
The cheese, yoghurt, flavour and ripening cultures are usually freeze dried. These cultures look like milk powder at first glance. The starter culture companies select the cultures and grow them in a sterile skim milk liquid medium until the culture numbers reach very high levels. This culture filled liquid is cooled to stop further bacterial growth and then frozen. The frozen medium is then freeze dried, technically it is a process called ‘lyophilisation’, or ‘cryodesiccation’. It is a process where the frozen medium is placed under a strong vacuum which causes water to be evaporated at temperatures below freezing.
This process ensures there is no heat damage to the bacterial cells as would occur with traditional drying practices. Freeze drying preserves what is a perishable product and makes it more convenient and less sensitive to temperature fluctuations for storage and transport.
Are you still looking for a gift for Father’s Day?
Do you see your dad learning to make cheese at a cheesemaking course? Or, is dad a cheesemaker who would love some extra equipment?
Vouchers are delivered electronically with your purchase.
This is an updated Cultures Reference Chart which provides a comparison between many of the cultures that are available to cheesemakers. It aims to provide the cheesemaker with some standardisation of the ‘corporate’ names attached to packets of cultures and the specific names of the bacteria, yeasts and moulds that go together to make up those packets.
If you have a recipe that asks you to use a particular culture, there is several alternatives cultures that you can use. Hopefully, this chart will give you some clarification of what culture to select next time you make cheese. This chart is regularly updated as new names of cultures become available.
There may delays in shipping products around Australia due to Covid-19. This is due to a heavier than usual volume of parcels, reduced flights and the impact of social distancing at postage sorting venues.
When your order is posted you will receive an SMS (a mobile number is required) and an email with the tracking number. It is recommended that you track your parcel using the tracking number provided so that you can monitor its progress.
BRISBANE INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 1 – JAN 23/24
23 Jan 2021 08:00 am
24 Jan 2021 02:30 pm
$409.09
SYDNEY INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 1 – JANUARY 30/31
30 Jan 2021 08:00 am
31 Jan 2021 02:30 pm
$409.09
MELBOURNE INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 1 – FEB 6/7
6 Feb 2021 08:00 am
7 Feb 2021 02:00 pm
$409.09
CANBERRA INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 1 – FEB 13/14
13 Feb 2021 08:00 am
14 Feb 2021 02:00 pm
$409.09
MELBOURNE INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 1 – FEB 20/21
20 Feb 2021 08:00 am
21 Feb 2021 02:00 pm
$409.09
SYDNEY INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 2 – FEB 27/28
27 Feb 2021 08:00 am
28 Feb 2021 02:00 pm
$409.09
MELBOURNE INTENSIVE CHEESEMAKING 2 – MARCH 13/14
13 Mar 2021 08:00 am
14 Mar 2021 02:00 pm
$409.09
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