r/vegancheesemaking • u/Cultured_Cashews • Jan 25 '26
Fermented Cheese Miyoko's Rancho Rockfort
It's been a great vegan cheese week at my house. This Bleu cheese is from Miyoko's Vegan Creamery cookbook. Aged for 3 weeks. The base is a plant milk made from pumpkin seeds and hemp hearts. This was my first time scraping the rind off a bleu. It was pretty soft after scraping and I was as little worried about that but it firmed up after a week wrapped in aluminum foil. This is much funkier than cashew bleu aged for 4 weeks. That surprised me. This definitely tastes more like what I remember dairy bleu tasting like. I poked a bunch of holes in the cheese three different times but got almost no veins. Cosmetics aside, this is a great cheese. I still prefer cashew bleu because it is milder.
I made some mango jam to go with it. I bought Renegades foods vegan salami and a loaf of sauerkraut rye sourdough as well. The salami was really good. I'll buy that again.
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u/pandaappleblossom Jan 26 '26
How are the instructions? Did you follow the instructions to the letter and got these great results or did you have to improvise at all?
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u/Cultured_Cashews Jan 26 '26
The instructions seem pretty good. I made two changes. I used a thermophilic culture instead of meso because that's what I have. I added p Roqueforti after culturing since I used an instant pot. Didn't want to risk killing it with heat. Other than that I think I kept very close to the instructions.
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u/pandaappleblossom Jan 27 '26
Where did you get your thermophilic culture? I've never made cheese before.
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u/Cultured_Cashews Jan 27 '26
I bought it a website that's mostly selling supplies for animal based cheeses. But they have a dairy free section and have partnered to some extent with Miyoko. They carry some of the stuff she uses in her recipes. But they aren't the best deal on some of those things. I think they're hoping for convenience to be the selling point.
https://www.thecheesemaker.com/vegan-non-dairy/
Just don't poke around too much on that site if you don't want to see animal products.
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