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*** 2021 Cheesemaking classes - Special offer and update as at October 7th 2021***

Thank you for taking a moment to look at our cheese making class page.

- Our next 'Morning in the Dairy" class with spaces will be Wednesday 3rd November - currently on special offer* at £40 per person and Sunday 5th December (cheese made on the 5th December will be ready for Christmas)

- Our next 'Make your own Halloumi class' with spaces will be on Sunday 31st October and 21st November

- Our next full day class with spaces will be Saturday 16th October*, this date is on special offer at £135 per person.

*Please note classes booked using special offers are not refundable nor transferable.

We are completely thrilled that the Guardian has listed us as one of the top foodie courses in the UK - read it here

Have you ever wondered how cheese is really made and if you can do it at home? Well now you can find out with our range of full 1 day courses short evening or afternoon classes and weekday classes that teaches you the art of cheese making at home without the need for any special equipment (a bucket, cloth and colander). We will provide all the equipment, milk and starters for your experience – you just show up. We can also have available packs for you to take home e.g. milk and rennet etc so you can develop your own cheese.

For all course types, dates and availability please scroll to the bottom of the page.

Our full day course runs from 10am (coffee from 9.30am) - we aim to finish by 4pm. We will teach you a bit of the science of cheese making but mainly it is a fun practical day. There will be lots of time for questions and discussions.

The itinerary for the full day class includes:

Refreshments on arrival
An introduction to cheese making
Milk tasting/comparison session
Selection of cheese samples throughout the day
Discussion and practical on maturing of cheeses with tips and hints

By the end of the day you will have made and will take home to mature a semi hard white cheese, a semi hard blue cheese, a lovely soft curd cheese and a small camembert style cheese that you can put in your fridge and mature to your own taste.

Course notes and recipes will be provided as will ongoing support should you need us.

A catered vegetarian lunch (with cheese of course) will be served at an appropriate break time.

And as this is a food course we will be stopping mid afternoon for homemade cake and drinks

Please wear robust closed in shoes and no jewellery (we don’t want to be searching for engagement rings in the cheese curd) and can I ask no strong perfume as the scent molecules can taint cheese (Chanel No 5 is a great perfume but not in a mozzarella).

Check out the review from Time Out London goo.gl/2mgnS0

All courses take place in our Micro Dairy in Tottenham, London.

Full day, short, and bespoke classes can be arranged for private groups please contact us info@wildescheese.co.uk or call Philip on 07758755248 to discuss your requirements.

Why not give one of our courses as a gift? we have a range of gift cards available at various prices.

Cultures and rennet

We now have a range of cheesemaking cultures and rennet available - pre orders for collection at one of our courses now available.

Have a question please e mail us info@wildescheese.co.uk

What people say:

I just thought that I'd let you know that I did indeed enjoy the cheese-making course yesterday. More especially, I'd like to congratulate you all for what was clearly a very well thought-out and well executed day. I was impressed with the way that you had all the equipment and ingredients ready when they were needed, and in how we progressed from one phase of the course to the next without any obvious delay. There must have been quite a lot going on unnoticed in the background to make it all work so smoothly. Your approachability and willingness to answer questions was also much appreciated.

Please pass these comments on to all at Wildes.

Best regards,

Tom

Cheester Eggs

New for Easter 2017!

We’ve been hatching plans with So Wrong It’s Nom to launch their Cheester Egg, made using our award winning Napier. It’s a hard cheese, slightly crumbly - yet creamy in texture.

With a deliciously sharp flavour cutting through, the Cheester Egg is an excellent snack to indulge on - especially for those who prefer cheese over standard chocolate offerings at this time of the year.

Cheeses are made from fabulous unhomogenized cows milk, vegetarian rennet and loads of love.

We have only produced a small number of the eggs, so please place your orders as soon as possible.

Cultures and Rennet

Due to demand we are so proud to announce we now have available small mesophilic and thermophilic cultures and rennet to make your own cheese at home. These packs of 5 litre mixes are specially selected by our cheese maker to give you the best chance of making an excellent cheese at home – we are the cheese makers we know what we are talking about.

Currently we have culture packs for soft and hard cheeses and vegetarian rennet in a convenient dropper bottle.

We will help you get you going by giving you a recipe card. And hints and tips about rind washing etc

Please see details below

Gift Cards

Presents, gifts, birthdays, Christmas, thank you gifts. Gift shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them or just want to give them something unusual?

Give them the gift of cheese or the skills to make their own at home with a Wildes Cheese | The Urban Cheesemaker Gift Card.

Gift cards are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout. Our gift cards have no additional processing fees.

Gift cards are valid for 12 months.

If you prefer we can send you a personalised certificate, without a printed value, that you print off and place inside a card. Please let us have your message in the text box, you can find this when you are at the shopping cart page.

Gift Cards

Presents, gifts, birthdays, Christmas, thank you gifts. Gift shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them or just want to give them something unusual?

Give them the gift of cheese or the skills to make their own at home with a Wildes Cheese | The Urban Cheesemaker Gift Card.

Gift cards are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout. Our gift cards have no additional processing fees.

Mother's Day

Please note: To ensure safe delivery our we will be dispatching cheese gifts for Mothers day Thursday 11th March - orders received by midnight Wednesday 10th March will be sent out.

Orders received after this time will be sent with our next collection Monday 1r classes th March

Happy Mother's Day

You know this mother’s day thing is a chance to show her you really care about her and all the things she does for you. It all sounds a bit drippy but, you know, it’s an important thing to do.

But why does she have to receive the same tired gift every year – an overpriced bouquet of flowers that are dead by the weekend (and worse still half price on Monday). Why don’t you give her the gift of a box of our delicious handmade artisan cheeses? or maybe choose a selection from our cheese shop. If you really want to be different send her on a cheese making course! Our classes relaunch this May. Gift certificates also available.

You could also send her a whole truckle of cheese – now who wouldn't want that in their fridge.

Go on show mother you care and care enough to buy her something different.

Let us know at checkout that the cheese is for Mother's day and we will arrange delivery on Friday 12th March. Also let us know if you would like a message card included.

Our Cheeses

Wildes Cheese is a small award winning independent artisan cheese making company based on an industrial estate in Tottenham, North London. We are passionate about quality and provenance and have created our own range of cheeses rather than copy other cheeses.

We bring to our range a fresh choice of flavours and textures for our customers. To do this we create our own recipes using the amazing milk from a single herd of cows that graze the fields of Northiam, located just outside Rye in East Sussex. We use vegetarian rennet, time, and a whole lot of love and passion.

Special Offers

As a thank you for supporting us this last 12 months we are pleased to offer 10% off all purchases (including all cheese/cheese related gift packs plus all cheesemaking classes) made by 10am Wednesday 31st March. Simply use code Easter21 at checkout. (Offer extended to midnight Sunday 11th April)

Courier deliveries - We intend to send out all cheese bought using the code with Fed ex on Tuesday 6th April for delivery Wednesday 7th April orders received after this will be dispatched either on the Thursday or Monday. Please let us know in message box at checkout or e mail keith@wildescheese.co.uk if you would prefer an alternative delivery date.

Collections: We will be open Mondays and Thursdays Wednesday 10 -3pm for prepaid collections - simply add cheese to cart, proceed to checkout - enter the discount code Easter21 and apply, then add the word collect into the same box and apply again. This will give 10% off and waive the courier fee.

How about the gift of a day cheese making, a Morning in the Dairy or our brand new class where you can learn to make your own Halloumi. We also offer a range of gift card where your loved ones can book their own convenient date or choose their own cheese.

The Guardian and Waitrose Magazine have listed our courses as one of the 'top foodie courses around the UK' a bronze award at the World Cheese Awards - held in London November 2017

We are happy to include a card with each Easter order – please let us have your message, use the notes section when you are in the shopping cart. Alternatively e mail info@wildescheese.co.uk with your order number and message.

Happy Easter

Weddings - Celebration Cakes

Welcome to our new collection of Wedding and Celebration Cheese Cakes.

Wedding and Celebration Cheese Cakes are becoming more and more popular whether in place of the traditional wedding cake or as part of the celebrations.

Why choose Wildes Cheese for your celebration cake?

We have been making our own range of fabulous cheeses for nearly 10 years, this together with our past experience in the hospitality area helps us provide excellent personalised customer service and attention when helping you to choose your perfect unique celebration cheese.

Wildes Wedding Cheese Cakes, named after the wonderful women from Coronation Street, are all made by hand from gorgeous cow’s milk and vegetarian rennet featuring a range of textures and flavours to suit all palates. Cheese celebration cakes can be delivered to the location of your choice.

Choosing your celebration cake:

Wedding Cheese in a box:

The collections below are examples of our ready to go Celebration/Wedding Cheese Cakes and are suitable from 25-30 guests to a cake suitable for over 100 people but we are happy to build a bespoke cake with you featuring as many or as few tiers of your choice as you require.

How much Cheese will I need?

Is there such a thing as too much cheese? As a guide approximately 70 – 100g of cheese per person is ideal where the cheese is part of a larger meal - If it’s the star of the show allow at least 100g and a little more.

Build/Choose your own Wedding Cheese Cake

If you are in or near to London we would love to invite you to the micro dairy for a tasting session where we can discuss options and together we can build your wedding cheese cake. This will include a discussion of options for your cheese cake including bespoke cheeses (craft beer cheese!) and personalising the cheese. We may, time allowing be able to make a cheese in a particular shape.

Tasting Box:

If you can't come into the dairy or prefer to hold a tasting at home consider a tasting box – this will include samples from our range and will allow you to taste and compare in comfort at home (with a glass or 2) The tasting box costs £20 plus delivery and weighs approx 750g. We will refund £10 when you place your cheese celebration cake order with us. Tasting boxes can be delivered Tuesday to Friday. We can arrange the details over email or on the phone.

Tastings can be arranged most weekdays between 10am and 3pm or Saturdays at 1pm (other times by arrangement).

Please feel free to call us on 07984098629 or e mail us at info@wildescheese.co.uk for more information.

Decorating your cheese celebration/wedding cake

You may have an idea about how you would like to decorate your wedding cheese most caterers (or fabulous friends) are happy to help decorate your stack

You may decide to go for a simple option with a few scattered leaves and flowers, figs and grapes.

Delivery:

We can arrange delivery to the venue of your choice, we will ensure the cheese arrives a minimum of 2 days before the wedding. The cheese will then need to be kept refrigerated until the event. Delivery is charged at cost

Party!

Looking for an unusual venue for your Hen/Stag party? Come make cheese with us! We can offer private hire of our dairy, cheese tastings and the opportunity to spend an hour having fun making Halloumi or a vat of cheese together to a disco soundtrack.

What people say…

Just to say we loved the tasting last week - amazing to taste such delicious cheese, to meet you both and also the other couples. Thank you very much.

Thanks again for the delicious cheeses, the tiers looked fabulous together and many, many 'yum' sounds were made!

Thanks guys, the cheese went down an absolutely TREAT! Thanks so much for helping us to provide those personal touches on our wedding day. xx

We had a great wedding and your cheese was fantastic!