Local Cheesemaker - drop of Rennet

By Mark Robertson on Feb 21, 08 09:42 PM

Well this is an enormous step into the unknown for me. To be asked to create a blog is indeed flattering and I have an ego like anybody else.

But's that's the easy bit; now to perform.

So following on the best advice that I have ever received; namely "Keep it Simple", I thought I should introduce who I am and what I do.

My name is Mark Robertson and I am the founder and present manager of The Northumberland Cheese Company. I or rather we have been making cheese since my faltering cuts with a carving knife in a 2 gallon stainless steel bucket in 1984. ( That required measuring the rennet with a 2 ml dropper and I only needed a drop)

The first production was indeed technically cheese, but after three months of maturation - or rather dehydration in the airing cupboard - it was more like a concrete ball. But it was a start and luckily Enviromental Health Officers were rather benign in those days.

I was presenting today to a national chain of distributors and they of course were asking rather serious questions, one of which was "Why did you start making cheese"? My answer, as with so much of my activities, was (and despite being offered many opportunities to define some heroic aspiration - I think that's the modern word) it just seemed a good idea.

And I think that neatlly brings me to why I accepted Graeme's gentle persuasion to start this blog.

So I look forward to engaging and blogging about how it feels working in a delightful and interesting industry.

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Bert said:

Wow! I never knew cheese making was so complicated! Do you think it would be possible to craft some sort of cheese-head?

February 27, 2008 9:00 AM

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