Homemade Cheese Powder and Other This~N~That
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Thank you for sharing, Heidi. I just love that you are so down to earth and such a Real person. I watch you everyday so I feel like we're friends. 💖
You are so right. Blessings to you👍✝️
My grown daughter and I use a lot of grated cheesed in our homes. We always buy the really big blocks of cheese and hand grating really hurts.
So I started looking for used Salad Shooters. I found a new one at a thrift store for $5.00. In less than 5 minutes we can have 2 large blocks grated.
Good find at the thrift store! When I need to grate a very large amount of cheese I use my Cuisine Art food processor with the 'grating blade' attached. For small amounts I use various small hand graters. Now I just need to buy a box grater.
I use my food processor to grate cheese too. I was doing it by hand and I hated it. It took so long to get it done. I’ve freeze dried some cheese and ground it to a powder in the food processor but I like to keep some shredded and in the freezer too.
That's the way to go! Congrats on that find😊
I got my salad shooter 20 years ago as a wedding gift and I still use it mainly for cheese grating!! Love it!
I can't wait to try this! I appreciate all your hard work showing us how to dehydrate things people think can only be freeze dried. Today my 90-year-old mom came home with 48 eggs, and I have 18 more for grocery pickup this afternoon. (I already ordered those before my mom came home with all the eggs.) She saw me dehydrate eggs previously, and said she knew I could "do something" with them, so she grabbed them when she saw them at a good price. Within 5 minutes after she got home, I had my dehydrators out and got the eggs in there right away. So easy! Maybe I need to tell her to watch out for cheese at a good price. :)
Wonderful!
Thank you for all the dehydrated videos using a dehydrator! I always wanted the really expensive one, but after watching you I realized I really don't need one. Your chicken idea of dehydrating cooked chicken is fabulous!
😂 when you mentioned water in town it reminded me of what happened when I was in my 20s.
I was in the middle of taking a shower, had shampoo in my hair and suddenly the water flow stopped.
I yelled to my husband to find out what happened.
Come to find out they were working on the water main in front of our house and neglected to tell the affected homeowners about it.
My options were limited as to how to get the soap off.
I had my husband bring me a small pitcher and he dipped the water out of the tanks on the toilets in both bathrooms then I rinsed my hair and body.
Before anyone says ewwww, the water in the holding tank on the back of toilets is clean.
My tanks were kept quite clean because I didn't want the minerals building up in them.
I'd assume that this is less expensive than the cheese powder sold online. Looks easy to do. I'll keep my eyes out for a cheese sale. BTW, the colors in that shirt are wonderful on you. Thanks for all you do, you make an impact.
Depending on the cheese used and the energy source, it certainly would be but one of the best things about it is that it is near impossible to find a store bought cheese powder without added ingredients (no matter what brand) that are not good for ones health.
@@RainCountryHomestead Oh yes, I didn't think about the added ingredients. Thanks for the reminder.
@@RainCountryHomestead Another winter project! Thanks Heidi! Btw, I enjoyed my morning coffee ☕️ with you👵🏻👩🌾❣️
If you are anywhere near central Michigan, I'll tell you where to get loads of cheese cheap, as I did last April. We need the space back & may do this.
@@tebethblaker777 dang it, I’m on the other side of the country, in the middle of “ Nowhere” lol 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
My household likes tuna melts. I bet this would work for those too! And in a crisis, some kind of cheese is better than no cheese 🤷♀ Thanks for the tip on using sharp cheddar. Giving it a try this week! What you've put out for uses of a dehydrator (in place of the more pricey, not always reliable, freeze dryer) has been super helpful & encouraging!!
Hi Heidi, God is good all the time. Hallelujah.❤❤🙏🏻
Thank you Heidi, I do not think I will ever be able to afford a freeze dryer it is low on my priority list, so that being said I love the idea of dehydrating cheese!!!!!
Oneof the most popular children's dishes in my family is cheap box macaroni and cheese. There is tons of the stuff sold every year and nobody fussed that it's made with powdered cheese. It's so easy to make your own. That being said, my favorite mac and cheese is made with a white sauce with cheese melted into it, topped with buttered bread crumbs and browned in the oven.
Have a delightful Sabbath with our heavenly Father and Brother.
Started enjoying your informative videos just a few days. Thank you!
Speaking of tomatoes. I grew two Early Girl plants and two Red Brandywine under the eaves on the south side of our home. The Early Girl plants produced long before the Red Brandywine. The RBs were great, too. I fermented six quarts from them, but they stopped producing abruptly mid-August. Meanwhile the Early Girl kept right on producing. I finally picked the last of the green tomatoes near the end of October. As they begin ripening in the basement, I bring them upstairs to put in my kitchen window. They're still ripening in my kitchen window! They're the best tomatoes I ever grew, very little spoilage, and an "endless" growing season! Hubby eats several of them daily, and he can barely keep up.
I also bought a 12 pint flat of grape tomatoes. I made 6 quarts of fermented tomatoes with basil and garlic. Yum! We had a good year!
I live in north central Wisconsin and Early Girl is what my father grew and it is what I grow too.
Good morning! Home dehydrated cheese. Who Knew? My favorite use was seeing the cheese sauce you made. Thank you, Heidi! 😃
Thankyou Heidi I am learning a great deal from you, a grandma from Australia
I like to dehydrate GV Fiesta Blend shredded reduced fat cheese. It doesn't release any oil during drying. Then I can some as dried shreds, and powder the rest. It makes a great powder. I use that on diy kettle potato chips. 4 Tbl cheese powder and 1 tsp each of salt, sugar and jalapeño powders makes 1 gal of great tasting chips.
Thank you for your video. The freezing was a great idea for crumbling the cheese. I watched another video on dehydrating cheese and she rehydrated again after she’d ground up the cheese and then it was able to grind it even more. She’d started with store bought shredded cheese so maybe the cheese wasn’t as pure. I’m looking forward to trying to dehydrate some cheese. Thanks again.
I agree. I dislike grating too. Great video as always. Thanks for all that you do. I really appreciate your videos and knowledge.✝️💕
Jesus bless you both! Thank you so much for your generosity Heidi and Patrick in providing all the extremely valuable information that you do. We're a large family who lives on a self-sustaining farm in Northern Alberta, and we genuinely appreciate your videos. May Yahweh shine His light on both your hearts.
My mom always raised a lot of tomatoes and at the end of the season just before it frosted she would pick all her green tomatoes and put them in boxes in layers with news paper between them and put them in the closet and over the winter she would go through them every week or so and pick out the ripe ones and we had fresh tomatoes up to Christmas
Got my crockpot full of ripened (formerly green) tomatoes right now, on the way to becoming some tomato sauce for the freezer. Almost all of the green tomatoes ripened on the counter but it took a few weeks! I froze them as they ripened. Worked great!🐓
I think I'll try my hand at dehydrating some cheese over the winter now that you've brought it to my attention! It's good to have as many various shelf stable options as possible in order to be prepared. I bet this would work well in my favorite Cauliflower-white cheddar cheese soup!
I am going to watch all your videos on how and why prepare. I have a good start on it, but I always learn so much more when I watch your videos.
Really good to know. I have 3 days off from work this week. Will be dehydrating some cheese. You can never have too much cheese
I did it on paper towel and it was oily from corner to corner. I opened my dehydrator a couple of times to pat the oily surface. Next time I'll use cotton instead of paper towel. I grated mine and when it was crispy I just put it in a jar and vacumed it.
I grew the black nebula carrot this year, along with many other varieties. I found the sweeter and crisper than my other varieties. They did not turn my soup purple, thank goodness.
I didn't know that trick about frozen cheese crumbling like that. Good to know. I still want to experiment with dehydrating both milk and cheese thanks to your videos! Love this. Thanks
Those carrots are gorgeous!
I am so new to all of this. This should be taught in schools, churches and community centers. What about using my sun oven as a dehydrator?
As long as it does not get too warm it should work, you just do not want the cheese to melt all over the place either
@@RainCountryHomestead your videos are so well done. Thank you.
Love all the dehydrator info.
Thanks Heidi....next to go on my list to try. Bless you.
Thank you Heidi! 🙂
Congratulations! Great job! 🤗💟
And blessings too! 💜
Thanks, Heidi. You've brought so much joy to my life with your attitude of experimentation.
Thank you I love your short videos. Very informative and to the point.
Thank you for your love. I am grateful for you in my life. Blessings🙏🤗
I really enjoy your videos so much!! Thank you 🥰
Hi Heidi thanks again for sharing this video on dehydrating cheese and other this and that.👍🏾
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!! ❤️
Wonderful!! Thank you!
Thanks Heidi. Enjoy your channel! Love, susan Hatch 💜
Definitely will be dehydrating cheese after your inspiring videos. Thank you!
Thank U Be Bless
Thanks for sharing all your experiments, the good and the bad. I admit I was skeptical about the cheese! But now I'm going to give it a try. Blessings to you and yours
Thank you for this video, Heidi. I really appreciate that you do the experimenting for us and present the pros and the cons of each process. It's very helpful for those that can't afford to do the experimenting themselves and risk losing the product if the experiment fails. I do have a question about dehydrating cheese. You mention using pre-frozen cheese before crumbling. Are you crumbling still-frozen cheese, or are you thawing the cheese before crumbling? Our stores have saved us more than once thru the years. Several years ago, our area was without electricity for over 2 weeks, and more recently, I was off work for 3-1/2 months due to an injury. Because of our mind for preparedness, we have fared just fine through more than these. Appreciate your heart for teaching and helping us so much❣️🥰💞🥰
Good question. The cheese is already thawed before I even cut it or crumble it. It would be near impossible to cut it if it was still frozen.
@@RainCountryHomestead that's what I thought, but wanted to clarify. Thanks!
I was waiting on this video...yay...I can't wait to try this 💖🌻
Great information! We have a well, but looking to put in some rainwater collectors. I've been dehydrating a lot of vegetables and homemade pasta & making my own dehydrated soup blends. I still plan to can next seasons harvest, but this gives me more options. Thanks again!! Many Blessings!!
Thank you so much for these videos. I think I'll invest in a 2nd dehydrater. I don't have the money or the room for a freeze dryer nor do I currently produce enough of my own food to justify a purchase like that. Still working on producing more. Storage space is also a concern so dehydrating it is for me.
God Bless.
Cool! I got a mega supply of large blocks of cheeses back in April at an Amish store. Probably should do this as we still have a whole shelf left and way out of room.
I’ve learned so much from your channel! However, you have the ability to talk faster than I can listen 🤗 shared some videos with my daughter who says you are very chatty! I grew lemon jalapeños last year and got two 🙄 Saved the seed and tried again this year. LOTS! It was a good pepper year here in Upstate NY! Didn’t plant them till mid-June and put them in very densely as I started to many. Never have had a harvest so prolific! Doing the same next year 😉
Just a reminder, you have the option to slow down the video playback speed if it is too much for you and I show how you can do that here: ruclips.net/video/nRjpE1xQwAo/видео.html
NOTE: I try to pack a lot of information into my videos and also try not to drag them out so while it may seem I am talking fast, I spend hours cutting out long pauses and mistakes or even taking out things I think no one will be interested in or have no value to keep the videos from being too long because there will always be people that complain one way or the other so I try to find a balance. Wish I could please all 164,000 people all the time but this is impossible.
@@RainCountryHomestead 🤔 thanks, I’ll look into this.
Thanks for being there Heidi!
If you haven’t tried the Mad Hatter pepper I highly recommend it! A fantastic sweet fruity flavor!
Or keep the purple to use as dye for textile projects. I’d love to see the color it provides.
Great this and that! I have some cheese powder but I may try dehydrating it when I get low...super tips!
Can't wait to do this! Thank you!
Here is the newer and more detailed video just on the cheese: ruclips.net/video/WlZZILLBHpE/видео.html
Awesome video! I've had a bunch of cheese pile up in my freezer since I get a pound a week with our CSA (local, artisan cheese, it's fantastic, and lots of varieties); we get more than we can eat each week, so I put it in the freezer.....I don't want to freeze dry it since almost all of it is whole milk cheese, so dehydrating it is a great option! Thanks!
Thank you. I've been waiting on this video.
I might have to try that dehydrated cheese! We have our own well but I have been washing out containers like milk containers and saving gallons of water and I’m all stocked up with rice and beans and miscellaneous for the winter. Great video once again of course! Have a great day and God bless!🙏😊🌱
I'm going to give the cheese a try. I love hot pretzels. Hoping it will be good on it. Thank you for all the great videos. God Bless. Cathy ❤️
I'm so happy you made this video. In Canada (or BC at least) you can't buy powdered cheese anymore (or "shaker" cheese) as used for making mac n cheese without buying the box kits (which I despise). I've made mac n cheese with a fresh-made cheese sauce and although hubby and I think it's good, my kids wouldn't touch it. If they see me making it with the powder though . . . I'm excited to try!
Wonderful experiment! I feel the cheese would be too lumpy and grainy for me. I'm going to try it though! I love how you've changed my outlook on life. It's one big experiment. Nothing is certain. You take what you have and you make it work. Thank you for the wonderful life lesson that I needed. I'm trying to get my Hubz to start thinking this way also. He's an anal perfectionist and I'm a creative, fly by the seat of my pants person. Opposites attract. Thank you, friend! 💚🌞
One of my best investments has been a $5.00 mini food processor. The Dollar Store always puts this out for Black Friday and Christmas. I have had this for over 20 years and use it regularly.
I dehydrated mozzarella cheese and powdered it,love it👍 thank you for all you do 🙏
Tracy Couture, did you use cloth (s) to dehydrate mozzarella? Did you use electric dehydrator? I would appreciate your input. Thanks a bunch 🙂
Thank you for this. I just bought a large block of sharp so I will put in freezer. 🙏🙏🙏
I can see dried and powdered cheese would be good to sprinkle on eggs.
This yearI made chow chow with our green tomatoes. We just had a taste; yum!
I Spy the beautiful Tea Kettel. As always great information!
Ty
Thank you..I’ve been wondering if it could be successful to dehydrate cheese.
Great to know about dehydrating cheese.
I wonder if you could stone grind after whizzing it to become powder.
Heidi, I have never seen those five color Chinese peppers! What a joyful sight for your eyes. I will look around the seed sites to see if I can find some and try them here in Central TX. TFS!!
I actually sell the seeds from mine along with many herbs seeds. If you are interested, email me at raincountryhomestead@gmail.com and I will send you a product list
I use paper towels cut to fit the trays, then change the paper half way through. I sprinkle it on hot burgers for cheese burgers.
Yes, paper towels are one way, I like the cloth because I can wash and reuse and lessen my dependency on a paper product that may not be there for me and also it saves money. So just some thoughts to consider there. Simply wash by hand in hot water and dish soap and hang dry
I wanna make white cheddar powder for popcorn thanks for this vid
I have to make the cloth liners for my American Harvest dehydrator. I'll be getting the cheese from my freezer and dehydrating to make it shelf stable for a little while. Thank you for sharing your experiment, Heidi.
How did it work out? I'm trying it. I have temp at 95
@minihomesteadcooking it was the preshredded with the coating they put on. It turned out terrible, and I threw it all away. There was an overwhelming flavor of the potatoe starch coating. If you used real block cheese and shredded it yourself, I dare say it would turn out better. It's worth trying.
can you imagine red cabbage and purple carrots? great canning colors
Yes, I was thinking they would be great fermented together
Purple carrots are my favorite, as is red cabbage
I am growing those Habaneros this year. Over here they are called Sweet Habanero. I am hoping to ferment them - I adore fermented peppers! Am also growing the hot habaneros, Jalapenos, a Japanese one called Shishito, and the wonderful and difficult to get Greek Golden Pepperoni.
I think sharp cheddar to make cheese straws would be great, thank You, Heidi My Mom put them in one layer in a grocery bag and fold the bag done and put in a closet that you don't open often, once a week check on them.
Yep, I did it that way too but found it best to keep them out where I can see them and remember them daily as some will ripen between one day and the next. Less likely to end up with a rotten tomato and they ripen just as quickly out where they can be seen
I would love to see what you do with the cheese other than the couple of things you showed. Thanks for the tips.
Yep, I will be doing more. I have been sprinkling it on other things like some cooked squash, and that was pretty good. Anxious to get the sharp cheddar in for more experimentation with that
I'm definitely going to try dehydrating cheese, Thank You Mrs Heidi. I can still get 2 for 5$ on 1lb blocks. Everyone stay safe and God Bless you and your family from middle GA 🙏 Kendra
The Swiss people make smooth cheese fondue sauce with wine. I wonder if that would work?
This is very cool freeze my cheese, I'm going to be dyhrating everything from now on. This is a great this and that video but you make me so hungry. God bless have a great day
Yes I have been doing a lot of dehydrating and of course you must have water to rehydrate so yes this is something I have been doing you read my mind lol 😃 I found five gallon containes for 6 each so I now have 25 more gallons.
I love this
I infuse calendula in extra Virginia olive oil. Then I add it to various ointments for wounds. I've had great success with my dairy cows teat injuries. Also there was a study several years ago that was on women who had c-sections. The study concluded that it healed the the incisions without scarring.
yep, calendula is one of the several healing herbs that gets used in my skin cream and also in my healing salve. Other herbs include marshmallow, plantain, dandelion, yarrow, comfrey, and more
Love this video!
Just started my cheese in the dehydrator! I wonder if the cheese powder was mixed with the butter it would be ok for popcorn?? I love the idea! Thanks!!
The cost of a freeze dryer would purchase:
All American cannier or two
Canning supplies
Dehydrator, two or three
Vacuum sealing set up like Patrick builds, brake bleeder or two etc.
Alternate appliances for cooking & heating
DIY rain water system or bought
DIY gravity water system or bought
Solar equipment or generator
Imagine how much food one could purchase to can & dehydrate & vacuum seal.
The list goes on & on. For me , not purchasing a freeze dryer is a solid prepper choice. God bless us all.
Good break down!
Thx for the freezing tip. I agree....grating cheese is The Worst cooking chore! Also agree with comment good color on you😉
Thank you!. I realized recently I did not have any tops in yellow and I was surprised so I purposely went in search of a flannel plaid shirt in yellow :)
Not sure if it speeds up ripening, but I put Green Tomatoes in paper bags, they're ripe in a week or 2.
Very interesting This 'n' that. 👍
TFS, & take care everybody. ❤🙂🐶
No, it does not speed it up anymore than just keeping out where you can see it on a daily basis and not worry about forgetting them
@@RainCountryHomestead Well there you go, I was wondering would they take the same time out of the bags. Thanks for clarifying, & Take care RC. 👍🤗❤🙂🐶
Habaneros to me have almost a fruity flavor. I made salsa with habanero peppers one year. My hands didn’t like it but it didn’t burn my mouth at all.
Love the dehydrated cheese tip, thank you. For your green peppers, I have a tip. Cut the branch it (they) is growing on, keeping the fruit attached, and hang it in a temp controlled area until ripe. I had dozens of various hot peppers that hadn’t ripened by first frost this year. So I brought them them in and hung them while attached to their branches. Worked great over 3~14 days depending on the pepper. Only a few rotted and on inspection it turned out they were ones that had tiny slugs burrowed in.
Oh I'm gonna try this, this year.
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Thank you for breaking things down to make them seem more approachable. I plan to dehydrate som cheddar cheese soon. I assume soft cheese may not work but would any firm cheese work? (Mozzarella, Monterey Jack, etc.)
I am sure you can dry those cheeses, though I have not done it yet.
I think it may have been Joybilee Farm who did an article on dehydrating feta cheese who also mentioned spreading cottage cheese, ricotta or cream cheese thinly on a fruit rollup sheet to dehydrate
I was thinking about cheese powder and tomato powder wrapped in tortilla and cut and fried or baked into combos. Pizza combos. My favorite ones are in MREa now. The store ones are not as filled like they used to be. The recipe calls for starch I'm guessing to stretch and straighten it out like a long rolled tube or something but I'm sure homemade wouldn't necessarily need the starch.
Tried it this weekend but layered it too thick and my dehydrator was too hot so the bottom trays were hard to get off the towels without ripping. The upper racks were great!
Views on the Road does a great cheese sause. Not from a powder but...its similar to how you did yours.
Thank you so much for your awesome videos. I am new to all of this food preserving and canning. Your information is incredible. How long would the powered cheese last and what is the best way to store it longterm?
I vacuum seal most of my dried goods and store on a shelf in a cool pantry. You can also store in a freezer if you do not have a pantry or root cellar that stay cool year round
@@RainCountryHomestead thank you. 😊
Hmmm I would love to dye some of my wool or alpaca with purple carrot juice😎
I was thinking about that, I am sure it would make a lovely dye!
Pretty purple, ooh, those carrot juice to use as a natural dye.. 🤔
I am in a small home. I hate that I am going to have to dumb all my rain water barrels as freeze comes in. They split if I let the water freeze. I have forge water from a spring under a dresser lol.
Thanks for the video. I wonder if you could use paper towels instead of a cotton cloth?
You can but cotton cloth is reusable and holds up better. You can even use old pillow cases or T-shirts
Awesome!!! You can store this dehydrated cheese in a mason jar...should an absorber be used to help keep it dry?
I vacuum seal anything I am putting away for longer term storage and the ones I am working through I just make sure I have an air tight lid on. No O2 absorbers needed
Jackson, MS (city) had a main water break. They were virtually without water for 6 months. 🥺
Perfect example!
Perfect timing! One question, what temperature did you use on the dehydrator?
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