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Cheese curds are bite-size pieces of fresh cheddar before aging. Our wood fired cheese curds have a squeaky, fresh and salty taste that is an all-time favorite snack. Mild in flavor and similar to mozzarella.
Wood-Fired Pizza flavor gives the impression of pizza baked in a wood fire. All the seasonings that make you feel like you just pulled some cheese off the top of the pizza! Serve these at room temperature.
Approx. 8 oz.
Cheese Curds
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Cheese Curds
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Brand new to cheese making, Dave and I took a week-long cheese making training course at The University of Wisconsin. The day before classes were to start, we decided to visit a cheese factory while we anticipated our big day ahead.
We walked into a large factory and found “ Today’s Curds” available on the counter. We were newbies! We thought the ones in the refrigerator were the thing to get. The locals all said we should get “Today’s” and off we went with two bags. We opened them up as we drove back to our hotel exclaiming, “These are amazing; we have to sell these!” Many conversations over the next few days revolved around how we could get people in Pennsylvania hooked on cheese curds! Meanwhile, we couldn’t stop eating them!
The cheese curds were some of the first cheeses we had to sell since they are fresh from the vat. We had fun getting creative with adding flavors like tomato and basil, ranch, and Cajun seasoning.
I think it has taken time to help folks on the East coast learn how delicious these are, but I think we have succeeded. We often sell out before another fresh batch is ready for the shelves.
We use non-iodized, semi coarse salt in our cheese. This salt dissolves into our cheese at the optimum rate, and serves four very important purposes:
Milk from a local dairy is first pasteurized before it is ready for cheesemaking. When the milk is at ninety degrees the first ingredient, cheese culture, is added to the milk. Cheese culture, which activates the milk and turns the milk sugars into lactic acid, is also a key ingredient to identifying the cheese’s character after aging. The next ingredient added is rennet. This ingredient is an enzyme that causes the milk to coagulate, a very fascinating part of cheese making, as the cheese sets up like custard in approximately twenty minutes.
It is then time to cut the curd. This is done by placing curd knives into the vat. These curd knives are basically sets of wires that run horizontally and vertically and cut the entire vat from top to bottom into quarter inch cubes. These cubes are very soft and fragile at first but as they cook, they firm up and continue to release more whey. Cooking the curd is a very delicate process as we heat the vat with steam from ninety degrees to 102 degrees only allowing it to rise two degrees every five minutes. When the curd is completely cooked we will have 600 pounds of curds from 6000 pounds of milk. Approximately ten percent becomes cheese.
Once the curds are cooked and have reached the correct consistency, we push them to the back of the vat and drain off the whey. The whey that has been drained is eventually spread on neighboring farm fields as fertilizer. Whey is a byproduct of cheese making but when processed, can be found in other foods we eat as well as some animal feeds.
The curds will knit together in the bottom of the vat. Using a large knife, we will cut them to form large slabs of cheese. These slabs are rotated and stacked every fifteen minutes as they continue to release more whey, firming up and consolidating. This is called the cheddaring process.
At this point it is time to “cut the curd.” We do this by feeding the slabs through a curd mill, which cuts the slabs into finger-sized pieces called cheddar cheese curds. The curds are salted and sometimes find customers waiting for them, warm and fresh, straight from the vat!
“While I had heard of cheese curds, I’d never eaten any. When I saw curds in September Farms refrigerator, I knew I had to have some. The plain ones were sold out so I picked up one pack of the Spicy Cheddar curds. OH MY GOODNESS. I am in love with curds. I can’t wait to go back and get some more. I want to try them deep fried. I want to try them made-fresh that day. I want to put them on salads. SO GOOD. When she told us that they “squeak” when you eat them, I was a little confused. Now I know. I have been converted.”
“The cheese curds are to die for!!”
“The cheese curds are my go to whenever I stop in.”
Watch the fascinating process of making our cheddar cheese curds!
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