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A wire scaffold will hold the cheesecloth away from the
cheese and keep flies away.
Tip for Maintaining Temperatures
Reading topics about cheese making, you'd think everyone
owns a precisely controlled stove that allows maintaining
temperatures within a single degree for hours on end. In the
real world, maintaining temperatures is somewhat difficult.
Using a double-boiler keeps the milk from scorching.
Unfortunately, when you raise the temperature of the milk to,
say, 90 degrees using a double boiler, if the inner container is
left in the outer container the temperature will continue to rise
well beyond that of the culture you are using even if you turn
off the heat.
Once the milk has reached the higher end of the temperature
range, simply remove the inner container from the outer
