Uncommon Goods | Italian Ricotta Cheesemaking Class

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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All classes will be held via Zoom and recorded. Please make sure you’re able to access Zoom prior to class time. The actual class link will be sent no later than 24 hours before class starts.

Please note that the product and class will appear separately in your cart. Both items must be in cart in order for the kit to be shipped.

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Your purchase includes

A 120-minute live virtual experience with an expert instructor

An 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

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: 120 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 pot with lid (enough for 4 qts milk with extra space), a large slotted or perforated spoon/skimmer, a rubber/wooden spatula, a cutting board and knife, a tall cup, a colander over a similarly-sized bowl, 3 small mixing bowls, a microplane (optional), 2 each of either spoons or forks, measuring cups and spoons, scissors, a large airtight container, a small rack/flat colander/chopsticks/sushi mat, a full canned good or heavy cup, a small measuring cup, in addition to the ingredients listed in the link below.

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Ages

16+

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.)

Ingredients

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

Item ID

60225

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  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Howard
  • Toms River, NJ

Great Class

The teacher was great but we wished she was a little more on point with the class and a little less on the talkative side. Many of the asides tended to confuse us a bit. All in all though, we had a great time and made some good cheese!

  • 5 stars out of 5
  • Lucky Mom
  • Winnipeg, Canada

Excellent instructions and great kit

This was my first foray into cheesemaking. Sydney was a great instructor - very informative, well paced and reassuring about the process. My fresh ricotta turned out very tasty and was quite easy to produce. Something I would definitely make again.

  • 3 stars out of 5
  • PRUllo
  • Arlington, VA

Unorganized

The class was confusing. I believe she should have picked a way to make the cheese and clearly followed a protocol. At each step she said do this, but, you could do this or that and rambled on about alternatives. I was watching with my daughter, who is a teacher and we got confused and I know others did as well. Then, there was a rush to finish. She could have talked about alternatives at the end. It, also, would have helped if the ingredients list stated no Ultra processed milk. I bought organic whole milk. But, it did say ultra processed, I didn't understand this when I making the purchase. There were also tools needed that were not mentioned until in the class. I so wanted my daughter to love this experience. We will try it again, but wish we could rewind the video and check a few things.

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  • Friends Who Enjoy Culinary Adventures

  • Foodies Who Appreciate New Experiences

  • Couples Who Love Cooking

  • Adults Who Want to Learn Cheese-Making

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