Air-dried cheddar/disaster from Artisan Vegan Cheese

Another less than successful result. This time it was the air-dried cheddar recipe from Miyoko Schinner's Artisan Vegan Cheese book. The colour is still wrong because we're still using dark brown miso (white miso is suddenly hard to come by), but the texture is also very un-cheese like too. In fact Uncheese is becoming the theme for our results (like the name of the 1990's vegan cheese book..)

This cheese doesn't taste bad... but it's not a lot like cheese. The flavour is tart and quite salty/sweet. The texture is a bit like nuttolene...sort of mushy, but bouncy.

We're quite sure Miyoko gets better results than this, but the lack of pictures in the book (except long range shots of carefully dressed cheeses) doesn't help. Nor do the over-simplified instructions.

Onwards and upwards... we're sure to get better results from some of the other recipes.... we hope.

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