133. Should Everyone Try Making Cheese at Home? | Robyn Jackson of Cheese From Scratch | Homestead Cheesemaking

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you have ever thought of making cheese at home but have been overwhelmed at the idea, this episode is for you! Robyn of Cheese From Scratch joins me to talk all things cheesemaking. Robyn’s desire is to make this skill accessible to everyone. We talk about how cheesemaking can become a normal part of your everyday routine, just like any other skill on the homestead. A common misconception is that cheesemaking is just for those who own a dairy animal, but this isn’t true! Anyone can learn to make cheese from scratch.

In this episode, we cover:

The distinction between homestead and professional cheesemaking
How to decide what type of cheese to make
Addressing some common fears about the safety of making cheese at home
The easiest cheeses to start with
How cheesemaking mimics what happens naturally in a calf’s stomach
Which supplies you need to buy and which supplies you can DIY
Surprising ways to repurpose all of the leftover whey
The secret to incorporating cheesemaking into your everyday life

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today I'm chatting with
0:04.8	Robin from Cheese from Scratch. Now before you click away and think okay I'm
0:10.5	not a homesteader, I'm not gonna make cheese. That's just for people who know how
0:15.0	to basically do everything there is to know on a homestead. I encourage you to
0:19.4	listen because this episode was really fascinating. She opened my eyes to some
0:23.8	parts about the science behind making cheese that I did not understand that
0:27.9	really made it more approachable for me to where I actually feel like I can do
0:32.3	this. I can definitely make my own cheese at home. I really like how she focuses
0:36.0	on simplicity and mastering simple recipes. So anyways without talking further
0:40.2	about it, let's join Robin from Cheese from Scratch to learn all about making
0:45.9	cheese. My name is Lisa, mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube
0:50.9	channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a
0:55.2	handmade home from Scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along
0:59.5	the way.
1:05.2	All right well hi Robin, how are you? Hi, thank you for having me. I'm good, thanks.
1:09.9	Yeah, thanks so much for joining me. I'm really excited to talk about cheese and
1:14.4	all that goes into making it. I know that you are an expert on it and I am not and
1:19.0	so I'm really looking forward to you sharing your wisdom with us. I have a
1:22.5	dairy cow and I'm still intimidated by the whole process of cheese making. So it's
1:27.1	super intimidating when you start revolving there. Like at the beginning, it's so
1:31.4	intimidating. Yeah, yeah. Like my favorite subject to talk about something. Yeah, I
1:36.8	mean, it's it's definitely something that there's so many different directions
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