Standing Stone Farms Complete Cheese Making Kit - Includes our Award Winning Ultimate Kit plus Equipment ~ Makes Hard & Soft Cheese ~ Detailed Recipes Included.

We just made our first two batches of cheese, the goat cheese and mozzarella. To begin, the wonderful lady in the video included is just wonderful! She explains the process extremely well and does a great job pointing out potential pitfalls and what might go wrong She is just so helpful, we love watching her! Next, the cheese came out great!! Goat cheese is so easy to make and all we needed was the goat milk. Started with just a half gallon, it came out perfectly by watching the videos and reading the instructions. The mozzarella is incredible, took less than an hour, having it on our pizza tonight. Again, thank you so much for the helpful video and instructions. No issues with what is or isn't included, everything but the milk, was in the box and we now have the confidence to make more cheese!

I was talking to a friend today who was interested in making cheese from scratch and recommended that she buy the same kit I bought back in 2016. In fact, I told her I would look up the kit I bought and send her the link. I then realized that I had never posted a review on how much I loved the kit! So... better late than never! The kit is just wonderful, and once you make cheese from scratch, you will be hooked forever! You get everything you need, and the DVD is very helpful if you have never made cheese before, which was me. My first attempt was mozzarella and it turned out delicious, far better than any mozzarella I had ever had before. But the most incredible thing was that I had questions along the way and contacted the company. They were so helpful and emailed me immediately with the answers. Then, when I lost my cookbook, they sent me a digital copy by email. I cannot tell you how much I love this company. You might find someone on the internet who sells products for a cheaper price, but there is no one out there with better service! And they definitely have the experience to help you with any problems you may encounter!

After watching the included video, we made the Quick Mozzarella as our first cheese making endeavor. It came out fine. It was a bit harder than we liked. The video states how important it is that you do certain steps at specific temperatures. The thermometer that came with the kit is very difficult to read to those exact temperatures. In the video, she uses a digital thermometer. That should be included in the kit. Also in the video, she mentions that she much prefers using kid (goat) lipase vs. calf lipase - yet, again, she includes the calf lipase, which we didn't really like the taste of in the mozzarella. Next time we'll try making it without any lipase. It's a good starter kit. After using it the first time, though, we created a list of items we need to buy in order that we're more successful with the final product(s). It would have been nice if they were included.

On opening I was thinking I spent too much for so little, but it really is the perfect sampler of products in a scale you would really want to sample with. Anyway, great collection and the DVD is worth everything! Truly well done and informative! A book can only do so much…but this narrative with her hands on explanations are priceless! No way to screw up your cheese if you watch and listen! Happy cheesemaking!

This kit is a big waste of money. I am truly unhappy with it. I can enumerate some basic flaws: 1). The instruction pamphlet is very skimpy and incomplete; 2). The "stainless steel pot, I doubt that it is stainless steel. Stainless steel holds a magnet, this pot does not. It's a cheap pot I had to buy a new 1 to get a stainless steel pot that worked on a convection stove. That pot is NFS and bigger & beautiful; 3). The tiny thermometer is not digital & is impossible o read; 4). It doesn't include a curd knife; 5). This kit includes cheese making wax; 6). There is a brush (boar bristles) for applying wax; 7). it doesn't include a press with the lame e cues that all cheese presses "cost hundreds of dollars (I am sure I haven't remembered everything but I think is a lot). I think those reasons alone demonstrate this isn't a "complete cheese making kit. I became so disgusted at I ordered the ultimate she else making kit from Leeners. What a difference! Leeners kit was clearly superior. It includes a book of cheese making that is very complete. This kit is clearly far superior. It includes a professional curd knife, a digital cheese thermometer, a number of different baskets for shaping different cheeses, and fancy this it has a cheese press that is very nice! It has the cheese cloth & ingredients as does this one. It doesn't offer the pot but as I indicated I found a beautiful pot on Amazon for under $30 & if u don't have an induction stove I would venture to guess you can find a perfect pot for less money. You need to make your own decision of course; but I wanted to make sure you had all the facts on both kits as Leeners kit doesn't describe what the kit contains and I think that's a shame. I found the Leeners kit to be amazing. The box is much bigger that this one because it offers so much more. Also Leeners is available 7 days a week and very helpful. I already ran into a problem and called them. They were very helpful & encouraged me to call whenever I needed help. And you ca make hard cheese with their kit as well as soft cheese! Hope this review helps you with your decision.

This was a gift for the Hubs. I actually ordered this one over another kit after reading a review and seeing the company offered to replace a lid that was damage, even though the customer didn't request it. That alone made me feel comfortable in paying a little extra for the kit. Since he received the it, he has made a few batches of Mozzarella cheese and really is please with the kit. The directions in the kit are basic and limited, so you will want to look on line or get a really good book on what to watch out for (ie. avoid ultra high pasteurized milk, etc). But this kit, although a tad bit high in price, IS worth getting because there is nothing left out besides your raw supplies. AND, excellent customer service (which is far and few).