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Italian Ricotta Cheesemaking Class

Created by Sydney Willcox

Roll up your sleeves and learn how to craft four mouthwatering ricottas right in your own kitchen.

$68.00

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Your purchase includes

A 90-minute live virtual experience with an expert instructor

A Italian Cheesemaking Kit, mailed to you before the date of your experience

An email sent at least 24 hours before the experience with all the preparation details including experience log-in information

The Experience

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You’re savoring a creamy ricotta and thinking: How do Italians make something as simple as cheese so indescribably delicious? You’re about to find out. Join chef Sydney Willcox for this live virtual class where you’ll roll up your sleeves to craft mouthwatering ricotta and learn the ins and outs of formaggio (cheese) like an expert casaro (cheese-maker).

  • You’ll make four varieties of ricotta in class: traditional, sweet (lemon vanilla), savory (garlic herb), and ricotta salata (an aged, dry form that can be harder to find than its softer counterpart).
  • Sydney will begin by walking you through the ingredients, including those in your kit (see Comes with the class, below) and one must-have: homogenized, pasteurized whole (full fat) cow’s milk (not ultra-pasteurized, ultra-high temperature (UHT), reduced fat, or plant-based milk).
  • You’ll learn essential techniques, including how to age and salt ricotta salata to perfection right in your own fridge.
  • Discover pairing suggestions for the different kinds of ricotta and get inspired by the many ways you can enjoy them—on crostini, topping waffles, with roasted veggies—the possibilities are endless.
  • Have some bread or crudités on hand because your ricotta (except for the salata variety) will be ready to enjoy by the end of class. The ricotta salata will age to peak firmness and flavor in two to four weeks.
Class length: 90 minutes.
Comes with the class: Our Italian Cheesemaking Kit has all the ingredients (except whole milk) to make ricotta and four other varieties of cheese (mascarpone, mozzarella, bocconcini, and burrata)—and this class will give you the skills and confidence to try your hand at all of them.

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Sydney Willcox

About

New Yorker Sydney found her passion for food while taking a cooking class during a semester abroad in Italy. She fell in love with teaching while giving classes at New York’s legendary Murray’s Cheese. Even while attending the International Culinary Center and working line cooking jobs, she always knew she wanted to get back to it. “Bringing nonprofessional cooks into the kitchen and showing them what they are capable of is the best,” she says. “I love watching them loosen up in the kitchen and find more joy in the process.”

For this class, you'll need the included Italian Cheesemaking Kit, a large (5qt) pot with lid, a colander, 2-3 small mixing bowls, a large slotted or perforated spoon/skimmer, a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, a microplane, 2 forks, a plate or bowl, a draining mat or rack, a large airtight container, a cutting board and knife, a cup, measuring cups and spoons, and scissors in addition to the ingredients listed in the link below.

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The Italian Cheesemaking Kit will be shipped in time to arrive before the date of your experience.

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Ages

16+

Ingredients

Experiences

Kit Ingredients
Cheese salt, citric acid, calcium chloride, vegetarian rennet tablets.

Notes

Before class, please:
- Please make sure you buy homogenized, pasteurized whole cow's milk for this class. Milk labeled "Ultra Pasteurized" or "Ultra High Temperature" will not work.
- Sanitize your tools as detailed here

1-2 people per screen, please. (More than that affects the quality of everyone's experience.)

Item ID

60225

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