Mozzarella Cheese!

This past week since we have been getting quite a bit of milk, I thought it would be fun to try my hand at making mozzarella cheese with the boys. Once I got Bird down for his nap, I had Bean and Bug scrub their hands and get ready to help!


Of course just like when they were making butter (by shaking) ~ it was a fight over who got to stir...I *tried* to tell them that they BOTH would have LOTS of stirring time.....


We added the citric acid and you can see the curds starting to form.
After adding the citric acid we had to heat it up a little more and then add the rennet ~ after adding the rennet we couldn't stir it ~ just had to wait until it heated up to the right temp.


The boys are *patiently* waiting for all the solids to form :o)



We scooped all the solid part (curds) and left the whey, which had to be heated up another 70+ degrees. After we got the whey to the right temp we dunked the solid ball of mozzarella in it...then came the FUN part!




STRETCHING the cheese! After it had been dunked in the hot whey we had to stretch it a few times ~ the boys thought that was great!
Although the BEST part was yet to come....




The EATING part! The boys thought that their mozzarella cheese was MIGHTY tasty!