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You left out adding yeast, which is the whole process. So you curdle, acid salt add maybe, then add yeast and let sit for months I presume?
Once the yeast process a food it's a lot harder for other bacteria to use it as well, even when there are nutrients left in it, it appears to me as an amateur brewer of different alcohols and a few kombucha type drinks.
Yeah, I forgot to add it, but it's not always needed. Rennet is used in things like mottz, but even then unless I am trying to make something I'll serve to others I'm probably going to skip the rennet and just use an acid, I've even used salad dressings to start the curdling. I'm not very conventional when it comes to cooking. A "fuck it, this should work out interesting" is all to often my go to.
On a side note though, not using the rennet works well if your trying to make a cheese dip, as it isn't usually as firm.
Rennet is a type of yeast stuff then? The name is familiar, never got into cheese specifically.
I often have that fuck it should work out, except for me it often does not work out well.
You are speaking to the proud owner of at least 15 gallons of apple cider vinegar because I was like, ah it's fine, naturally fermenting, no need to pasteurize it and then innoculate it with yeast.
Under 5% alcohol the mother of vinegar can get in and convert the alcohol to yeast. Over 5 the alcohol kills the vinegar. I did have 2 five gallon batches that did ferment normal.
I love vinegar, I throw vegetables in the buckets of vinegar, so I will use it, eventually. I need to find some other uses for it maybe.
Yeah the rennet is some kind of enzyme. Apple cider vinegar sounds great. I saw a 75% off organic honey a few months ago coming from Kroger's distribution hub. So I got like 30 pounds of it. I made about 20 pounds of it into mead using champagne yeast and random fruits that were in season. Always fun to have simple idle projects sitting in the background. Gives you something to look forward too.