Wooden Cheese Press For Cheese Making 16 In Natural Oak 18 mm Thick - Cheese Making Kit With Wooden Cheese Press and 2 Cheese Molds 1/2 Gal, Cheesecloth, Springs and Measuring Scale Included

I needed a good cheese press to take my cheese making to a higher level. It was easy to assemble and even easier to use. It doesn’t take up a lot of space, which was essential in my tiny house. The weight gauge is only effective on the higher amounts. If you’re making a cheese that requires lower weights, you’ll have to either 1: guess, or 2: use hand weights for a bit more accuracy. When I’m making a farm house cheddar, for example, I put the cheese in the mold and then put 10lb weights on top of the press, then tighten the wing nuts. Seems to work well.The construction is solid and it has held up well. I put mine in a baking sheet to catch the whey runoff. This press is also quite simple to clean. For the money, this has been a great find.

This works great, just what I needed.

Not easy to turn those butterfly nuts but it is very sturdy and does the job.

Works very well. The pressure gauge is very helpful.

I saw good reviews and a great price compared to all the options online that cost much more. It was not until I returned to process a claim that I noticed everyone who reviewed it had been given a free one.Bad news: the springs are all different sizes. They can not give an exact measured pressure like the gauge says when you might use different size springs that start applying pressure at different heights. I tried to just get new springs but I had to process a return for the whole item just to get new springs. The new springs were not uniform either.More unpleasantry: I found that when using all four springs, by the time you get to the second bump of the measuring stick, it is only about 5 pounds pressure off, I did this by putting dumbells on it of certain weights but could only measure to the 110 pound mark, and I ran out of things to put on it. When using two springs, they were only able to hold up about half of what the measuring stick markings say.Good news: You can calibrate the measuring stick using dumbells [or cases of vegetables or whatever, weigh it on a scale, then put it on the press to see how much it holds to hit the markers]With two springs, well, I had two sets of measures using my shortest two and longest two springs. The short springs hit the measures at 15, 25, 45, 80, 100 [not 30, 60, 90, 115, 140]. Using my two longest springs, I hit the markers at 20, 40, 50, 75, 110 [not 30, 60, 90, 115, 140].Once pressure was applied, with four springs each full revolution of the wing nuts added pretty close to 10 pounds. With two springs about 3.5 rotations gave 20 pounds.All that said, the measures are off but it did the job.Oh! and it is not 'set it and forget it' ... when you get to the 40 pound or so pressure, the whey starts losing moisture and then it can get lopsided quickly, so you need to watch it for an hour or so after each adjustment. This is more a nature of the product than a defect.I enjoyed using it, just wish it worked more as designed

buena herramienta, fácil de usar para prensar, proteger la madera con una bandeja para que no se deteriore

Very cumbersome to use just meh

If you have a homesteader friend, someone who home schools their kid(s), or is just a cheese fanatic, this could make a really great gift! It has the essentials for making cheese at home and is quite a nice little setup. I think someone would really appreciate this. Sturdy and good quality. No complaints.