Books - Homemade Cheese Recipes: Techniques for Savory, Gourmet Homemade Cheese Recipes

There are many benefits to making your own cheese. Besides being a hobby that you can eat and that genuinely tastes good, theres several health benefits involved as well.

When buying cheese at the store, its hard to find cheese that doesnt have all sorts of different ingredients that youd never recognize even with a dictionary. The amount of preservatives and flavor enhancers that go into food these days is mind-bending, not to mention all the processing that these cheeses go through. If you make your own homemade cheese, you know exactly whats going into your food and dont need to worry about ingredients that could make your block of cheese radiation resistant.

Another benefit of cheese is that when you make your cheese, you can keep your family members eating at home more often. Cheeses like Gouda and Parmesan are often associated with foods that youd eat at restaurants, and by making these cheeses at home, you can make restaurant style foods that can contain less oils, less unhealthy fats, and less unhealthy ingredients in general. By decreasing the unhealthy ingredients that enter your body, youre reducing the chances of developing a whole cornucopia of diseases.

A benefit thats not health related but can still benefit you is the hobbyist culture around cheese. Cheese is almost considered the solid version of wine, with different ingredients, maturing age, and place of origin having a strong effect on the taste that the cheese has. Theres a reason people have wine and cheese parties; the strong taste of each one combined with the knowledge that goes behind each type of wine or cheese is a point of pride among connoisseurs. The amount of time that goes into certain cheeses is also something that experts love to make a point of, with some cheeses taking 9 months or more to mature properly. Making cheese is definitely not a short-term hobby, since if you plan on making cheese for your family, youll need to be making wheels at a time and planning on eating them days, weeks, or months later.

These benefits are all on top of the regular benefits of eating cheese, such as the high amount of calcium (which helps build strong teeth and bones and prevents osteoporosis), a good source of fat content of gaining weight, and helps slow down digestion of foods such as carbohydrates which regulates your blood sugar level.