Chapter 193: Delicious Dairy (2) (1/2)

When Kragami sent RIno a barrel of vinegar along with three barrels of beer to Town Zera, Rio did not know if he would ever finish using the vinegar. Now, he knew exactly how he was going to use them.

Although it was potato vinegar, Rino had a feeling it would still do the job of changing the goat milk into goat cheese. He had the salt ready and the huge clay pot on the temperature regulating stove.

Cheesemaking was a delicate process, and Rino called Zes over with some of the genesis fairies. As this was Rino's first time putting his cheesemaking knowledge to practical use, many things could still go wrong.

The cheese tub he ordered to be custom made almost two weeks ago proved to be the right decision. Now, he looked at the markings at the side of the pot as Zes helped to pour the barrel of goat's milk. Rino was looking at a proportion of one part vinegar and four parts milk.

With one barrel of goat's milk in the cheese tub, Rino activated the fire rune on the stove on medium intensity.

He could not tell the milk's temperature, but from the enthusiastic sharing of his chef in the previous world, Rino knew that milk boiled very quickly. He wanted to avoid that all cost and told Zes to stir the milk slowly without stopping in the cheese tub as he watched with hawk vision.

As soon as the first bubble escaped the white liquid surface, Rino lowered the intensity of the heat to low. He continued monitoring it and adjusted the fire output accordingly, explaining the importance of heat control to the genesis fairies on duty.

”Slowly stir in the vinegar, don't stop stirring the pot. You should start seeing solids form and keep the heat on low always. Warm the milk, but don't let it boil.”

The fairies did as Rino commanded, and Zes kept stirring the pot as the vinegar drizzled into the pot until the total amount of liquid inside reached the pot's marking at the side. Rino commanded them to stop when it reached the marking and told Zes to continue stirring it for a few more minutes as Rino deactivated the fire rune on the stove beneath.

Everyone held their breaths as Rino inspected the pot. The cheese bits looked good, and Rino had a feeling this was a success. Now, all they had to do was strain it using cotton cloths and shape it into something easy to slice.

A new barrel was rolled over as the genesis fairies tied the cotton cloths over the top of the barrel. Once all the cheese bits were separated from the soured milk, Rino was determined to squeeze them dry by twisting the cotton cloth. The rest of the liquid was disposed of and poured into the field as extra water. Rino only wanted these cheese bits and set them into a large mixing bowl, sprinkling a generous handful of salt while mixing the bits.

The genesis fairies took a sneak taste of the mixed cheese bits while Rino looked for a suitable paper wrapper for the cheese cube he was going to make. It was delicious, and Zes gave in to temptation, stealing a small piece for a taste when Rino caught him red-handed.

Instead of getting angry, Rino smirked.

”Is it good?”

Nodding, Zes and the genesis fairies blushed. Rino laughed and convinced them that more delicious food will come in the future.

”We still need to resolve the in-breeding problem if we don't want strange cheese and milk,” he told them.

Sheila and Kamiya were working on finding new animals around the vicinity, and Rino had no problems waiting for them to find new animals. Zes still had plenty of nanny goats to milk, so there would be more cheese. The only real problem was their dead-end with the grindstone research. Without it, they could not make the flour that was needed to bake a pizza.

Rino already had a schematic for a mana operated oven now that he knew how to design temperature regulating fire runes. The spell was slightly more complex, but it wasn't anything Rino couldn't manage.

The oven wasn't very different from a furnace that he also included in his river stone cottage design. That was going to be his personal blacksmithing workshop. Rino looked forward to the automatic water wheel system to help him with grinding, churning, smithing and more.

Now that Rino had his cheese wheel and butter boxes, he encouraged Zes to make more for Town Zera's consumption. To motivate them, Rino let them in on a secret that cheese went really well when stuffed into minced meat patties that they could fry over a hot stone plate.