A refrigerator or wine cabinet can provide a cool enclosure for holding or ripening food, but it does not control every condition a ferment or cheese needs. Check temperature, humidity, airflow and cleanable food containers separately.
A two-stage Altai dairy preparation: sour chegen is heated into soft aarchi, then portions are drained, pressed and traditionally smoked into firm kurut.
A washed-curd cheese with propionic bacteria, warmed by hot water in two steps and then held in a warm room for weeks so the bacteria can form its holes.
Beyaz peynir is a Turkish white cheese matured in brine. Sheep milk, alone or mixed with other milks, gives a close-textured cheese cut into blocks and packed in cans.
Corsican Brocciu is a whey cheese made by heating sheep's or goat's whey with whole milk and salt, then gently draining the flocculated curds. It is eaten fresh or salted and ripened as Brocciu passu.
Budz is a traditional Hutsul rennet-set cheese made from sheep, cow or goat milk in the Ukrainian Carpathians, forming a fresh curd that can be eaten, smoked or processed into salted bryndza.
A scalded cheese moulded in baskets and re-cooked in its forms in hot whey, made alongside a ricotta from the same milk, then acidified, brined and aged for months.
A pressed cheese whose curd is cooked slowly, then cheddared: kept warm in slabs that are turned and stacked for hours before milling, salting and pressing.
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The expanded Polish description specifies 700 mL kefir, tight cloth supported by a colander over a whey-catching container, 24 h refrigerated drainage and an observed 240 g cheese yield.