Lab Summary Week 2: Cheesemaking

By: Ezra Kucur, Daniel O’Connor, and Ian Rock-Jones Introduction Experimental archaeology has been instrumental in deepening our understanding of Paleolithic food-ways and technologies, for example; fire control for cooking. While hearth-remains provide material evidence of fire use, experimental methods allow researchers to recreate fire-starting techniques, cooking practices, and heat management using only the materials available…

Week 2 Lab Data (Group F): Making Mozzarella

Cheese-making week entailed the very smokey process of heating milk combined with lemon juice and eventually rennet over a fire, letting the curds and whey naturally separate, cutting and straining the curds, and finally forming them into mozzarella balls in a salt bath. To maintain the proper temperature for cheese formation, which is about the…

Lab Group Data Recording – Week 2 (Group B, Paneer)

Weights: Weight/volume of milk: 1026 g/L (total), Weight/volume of lemon juice: 226.6/0.22 = 1030 g/L, Weight/volume of curds: 668/0.61 = 1095 g/L, Weight/volume of whey: 2626/2.55 = 1030 g/L (total) Temperature of milk: Time Temperature Notes 0:00 12 C N/A 0:05 42 C N/A 0:15 70 C Remained consistently at 70 for a long time…