Essential Guide to Homemade Vegan Cheese
Learn to make homemade cheese with ease with these fundamental tips
• Recipe created by Plant Perks, Photography by Katie Koteen of well vegan.com See page 70 for recipe
Ask anybody about their journey to veganism and you’ll likely get a response stating the difficulty of giving up dairy cheese. Why is dairy cheese such a pain to give up? Well, probably because of just how addictive the stuff is. One component found in dairy cheese is casein: a substance that some claim to be as addictive as crack cocaine.
However, it’s not just the addictive nature of dairy cheese that makes it so difficult to get over. Vegan cheese has built a bad reputation over the years, mostly for good reason. When you’ve spent a lifetime consuming animalbased cheese, the change to processed plant based alternatives is tough, particularly when non-dairy cheese often over-compensates on flavour resulting in a feet-like pong.