Italian Cheese Making Kit

You don’t need to travel to Italy, or even your local Italian deli, for fresh, mouthwatering mozzarella or ricotta—you can whip up a batch right at home with this beginner-friendly DIY kit. Designed by a cheesemaker with 17 years of experience (who also teaches and wrote a book on the topic), the easy-to-follow instructions and video tutorials offer guidance through every step of the process for fledgling fromagers to make a batch of cheese in about an hour. With all the necessary tools included (plus gluten-free, vegetarian rennet), just add milk for homemade ricotta, mozzarella, or farmer’s cheese whenever a craving or grazing board calls for it.

• Each kit makes four batches of cheese for about six pounds total.
• Works with store-bought pasteurized dairy milk (cream-on-top milk is even better; do not use milk labeled ultra-pasteurized, UHT, or ultra-heat pasteurized).
• Mozzarella and ricotta can be made in about an hour; farmer’s cheese takes about 20 minutes.
• Handmade in Oregon.