Mozzarella, Burrata and Stracciatella Cheese Making

Learn how to make your own tasty Mozzarella, Burrata and Stracciatella cheese at home.

Workshop details

This 5-hr workshop will run on the following dates in 2023:

Sun 18th Jun or
10am – 3pm

Sat 11th Nov
10am – 3pm

$240*
Concession available

In this hands-on cheese making class you will learn how to make and go home with milky soft pillows of mozzarella and the best of the stretched curd cheeses including:

Burrata – everyone’s favourite bundle of deliciousness, with an oozy filling of creamy stracciatella
Stracciatella – fine stringy strands of mozzarella, mixed with cream and salt.

Trainer profile

A pioneer, leader and respected authority in the cheese industry, Kristen Allan has spent over 17 years immersing herself in the techniques and flavours of the ancient art of cheese making.

Kristen’s cheese is in great demand, supplying the likes of Annie Smither’s restaurant Du Fermier, Ester, Fred’s and Aria and has been a regular stallholder for some years at Carriageworks. Her recipes have been featured in various food magazines and publications including Gourmet Traveller & Cornersmith’s cookbooks.

In 2018, Kristen was nominated for a Delicious Produce award, a testament to her philosophy of slow, carefully hand crafted cheese, using only high quality ingredients. Her buttermilk ricotta has a cult-like following around Sydney and her cheese is revered Australia-wide.

Establishing herself in the echelons of the food world and as one of Australia’s leading cheese educators, she is a regular teacher at Daylesford Longhouse, Cornersmith and Moonacres cooking school.

Kristen is an accomplished speaker. One of her most prized achievements in 2018, when she was asked to present at the feminist talks and ideas festival ‘All About Women’, becoming the first person to make cheese at the Sydney Opera House.”