{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-24T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-07-29T17:05:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:05:22","slug":"project-2-whey-day-part-3%e2%80%a6-or-when-mozzarella-goes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/project-2-whey-day-part-3%e2%80%a6-or-when-mozzarella-goes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2: Whey Day (Part 3)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or when mozzarella goes wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to second Amanda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>If you want to be able to store your mozzarella, Ricki Carroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 30-minute mozzarella is not your recipe.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>This is a recipe you make and eat right away.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>On our first cheese making foray (see flickr photos<\/a>) we only made one single batch of Ricki Carroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 30-minute Mozzarella and we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t attempt to store it and while it could have used a lot more cheese salt, it had an authentic mozzarella texture.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This second round of mozzarella provided us with three different batches of mozzarella (see whey day parts 1 and 2) to compare, and each one not only stored differently, but also tasted different.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Two of the three batches pretty quickly developed a gooey slime on the outside of the mozzarella balls.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>They actually tasted fine if you could force your way through the grotesque texture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m blaming the storage water more on instinct rather than any hard evidence. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>I think it was pretty telling though when I went to use some of the remaining mozzarella in a pasta salad and there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any water left in the container and the mini-mozzarella balls had congealed into one big mass of mozz.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I must admit that this little setback threw me from my pasta salad path.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In a somewhat dazed manner I showed the mass to my roommate Jen, who fortunately is way more resilient than me in the kitchen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nicole: Look at this!\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Do you think I can still use this in the pasta salad?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Looks kinda strange to me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jen: That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weird. (immediately sticking her finger into the mass and taking a bite) <\/em>It tastes fine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nicole: I think it might make the salad a little weird.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of runny.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jen: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you need a dressing for the salad?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you use the mozzarella as a base?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nicole: Uhm \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>How would you go about that?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully Jen took over at this point with her trusty Cuisinart and proceeded to blend the mozzarella with milk, lemon and a number of other ingredients, mostly from the herb family I believe, and made this stupendous dressing for my roasted veggie pasta salad.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It was delicious and decadently rich, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recommend dwelling on the nutritional impact of a dressing with a mozzarella base. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Notes \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>If you have the time I definitely recommend making more than one batch of mozzarella with different brands of milk if possible.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It is interesting to taste test different batches at once, and if you keep detailed notes it will help refine your mozz making abilities and lead to a more consistent product.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d store the mozzarella in water again.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious what would happen if it was wrapped in saran \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no slime maybe?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Try and get yourself a Jen.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It makes dealing with food mysteries and accidents a lot easier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to second Amanda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to be able to store your mozzarella, Ricki Carroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 30-minute mozzarella is not your recipe.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a recipe you make and eat right away.\u00c2\u00a0 On our first cheese making foray (see flickr photos) we only made one single batch of Ricki Carroll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 30-minute Mozzarella and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,3,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cow","category-education","category-making","category-nicole","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fucheese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}