Oh, also, the plank on top bears the weights... otherwise I'd just be stacking them on the cheese "plunger" which is just too small...
I realized there's a part in the press you can't see in the picture. Inside the PVC pipe, unter the iced tea jar, there is a "follower" which is a piece of nylon cutting board cut with a jig saw into a perfect circle that tightly fits down the PVC pipe... If I just used the tea jar, it's not a tight enough fit to keep the curds from squirting up the pipe and out the top under pressure.
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Re: Cheese Press
Date: 2009-05-07 05:54 pm (UTC)I realized there's a part in the press you can't see in the picture. Inside the PVC pipe, unter the iced tea jar, there is a "follower" which is a piece of nylon cutting board cut with a jig saw into a perfect circle that tightly fits down the PVC pipe... If I just used the tea jar, it's not a tight enough fit to keep the curds from squirting up the pipe and out the top under pressure.