BEGINNERS

MAKE YOUR OWN CHEESE, BUTTER AND YOGHURT. IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK

All smallholders can be completely self-sufficient in terms of dairy products. Make your own cheese, butter and yoghurt with as little as five to ten litres milk. Your family will love the taste of real cheese and it is so much cheaper too. If by some small chance you have a few extra cheeses, you can sell them to your friends - it could be the start of your own small business. Follow this simple weekly programme: Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, skim the milk and use the skimmed milk for drinking and yoghurt. The cream is used for butter. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the whole milk is used to manufacture cheese.

There is no need to have any experience in cheesemaking when you purchase a Finest Kind cheese kit. Well worked out tried and tested production methods accompany the cheese kits. When making cheese for the first time it is advisable to start with a quick maturing cheese such as the soft cheeses, feta or gouda. These cheeses mature in 3-4 weeks, not too long a time to remember how the cheese was made. It is important to make careful notes while making cheese and number the cheese with the date you made it such that you can refer back to your notes and correct the mistakes. Cheese is made from whole milk. 10 liters milk is required to make 1kg hard cheese such as gouda.  Ingredients to make cheese will cost you ± R4.00/kg cheese. The culture supplied must be stored in the fridge and is enough to make 30kg cheese. The rennet supplied must be stored in the fridge and is enough for 20kg cheese.

Some examples of the cheese kits we supply are as follows:

CHEESEKIT KO5L
Equipment necessary to make feta and soft cheese from 3 liters of milk. The production method is included free of charge.

CHEESEKIT K10L
Equipment necessary to make soft cheese, feta,and gouda from 5-10 liters of milk. All production methods are included free of charge.

YOGHURT EQUIPMENT
Yoghurt is an excellent product to make from home because it is so easy and cheap. At most one liter of yoghurt will cost you R2.00 for the milk plus 20c for the ingredients. Compare this to the price of yoghurt at the supermarket. Yoghurt can be made from skim milk or low fat milk. You can choose from the following equipment and ingredients depending on the type of yoghurt and the quantity you want to make. Production methods are included free of charge.

BUTTER MAKING EQUIPMENT
Butter is made from cream. For every 10 liters milk one can obtain on average 1.2 liters cream and 350-450 gram butter. There are no short cuts to making good butter. You need a well-designed butterchurn and production method. Furthermore, butterpats, rectangular butter moulds and butterpaper are also available.

Are you having problems making your cheese, butter or yoghurt? Contact us.

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