Best cheese blend for pizza topping. Pizza cheese recipe for mozzarella at home. What is pizza cheese and how to buy pizza cheese at the store.

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How to buy and make the best cheese blend for pizza. How to make homemade mozzarella cheese for pizza.

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-½ gallon of raw or pasteurized whole milk (NOT ultrapasteurized)
-6 or 7 tbsp distilled white vinegar
-thermometer

This recipe is going to get a little technical.
We’re going to take a half gallon of whole milk, and it needs to be raw or pasteurized, but NOT ultrapasteurized, and bring it up to 115 degrees F or 46 C. I used a candy thermometer I have, but a meat thermometer would work as well. If you don’t have a meat thermometer, I would highly recommend getting one. I find it invaluable.
You don’t want the milk to get too hot too quickly, so heat the milk between med low and med.
Once it reaches the correct temp, turn off the heat and add 6 or 7 tbsps of distilled white vinegar. Gently stir it and you’ll see the curds and whey start to form. This was so cool to watch.
Then put a lid on it and leave for 15 minutes.
Next strain the curds from the whey, the curds are what is going to be our delicious mozzarella and the whey can be tossed. I looked up fun things to do with the whey if you would prefer and have that linked above.
Once you have your curds, squish them together to get any extra whey out. You’re just trying to squeeze any of that juice out of your cheese.
Then we’re going to pop the cheese into the microwave in 30, then 20 second intervals until the cheese reaches 160 F. I poked it with my meat thermometer in a couple of different places to make sure it was 160 throughout.
I squished it some more and removed some more whey that came out.
We want to stretch it so it becomes silky smooth. I did this with my wooden spoon until it was cool enough to touch. I really enjoyed the feeling of stretching it. It was a really unique experience and a good hand workout.
Then once smooth, I made it into the best ball shape that I could and put it in cold water, dried it off with a paper towel and then wrapped it in plastic wrap to put it in the fridge until I was ready for it.

00:00 Best Cheese Blend For Pizza Topping / Homemade Cheese For Pizza
00:56 Best store bought cheese for pizza
01:26 Homemade cheese for pizza - mozzarella
02:23 How to squeeze the whey out of mozzarella
02:42 Microwaving mozzarella to stretch it out
02:52 Stretching mozzarella cheese
03:18 Forming and storing mozzarella cheese
03:25 Tasting homemade mozzarella cheese

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