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07

Nov

Gremlins by Jonathan our International Business Manager

My favourite Christmas movie is either Gremlins or Die Hard 2 – yep those are Christmas movies! Or Jingle All the Way. Or the Grinch. Or Muppets Christmas Carol. But let’s go with Gremlins. It’s my favourite because it doesn’t follow the normal Christmas film rules – depicting impish little goblins-like creatures wreaking havoc on Read More…

07

Nov

Christmas Gifts for the Cheese Lover

Not sure what to get the cheese lover in your life this Christmas? We’ve put together some of our favourite cheesy things to help you decide. 1 The Big Cheese Personalised Slate Board with Stainless Steel Cheese     2 The Charted Cheese Wheel     3 4 Piece Cheese Knife Set and Block     Read More…

07

Nov

The Perfect Gift for Your Cheese Lover Just Got More Perfect

The Big Cheese Making Kit is proud to introduce you to the new members of our cheese making family: these four wonderful gift hampers, available exclusively through bigcheesemakingkit.com. From A Big Yuletide Cake Making Kit to thoroughly festive mince pie popcorn each unique hamper contains a Big Cheese Making Kit and a range of delicacies Read More…

05

Sep

More Cheese Please!

This week we have a guest blog post from the wonderful Beth! Would you like to hear a cheese joke? I’ll keep it BRIEf. This and many, many more fromage related puns were the order of the day last Saturday when The Big Cheese Making Kit made an appearance from our cupboard along with a Read More…

02

May

Celebrate and say cheeeeeeese!!!!!

Next month is British Cheese Week. It runs from Monday 26th May – Sunday 1st June. The aim is to raise the profile of British cheese. In the past two decades, the number of British cheesemakers has doubled. There are over 700 varieties of British cheeses! We’ll have lots of things going off to celebrate Read More…

25

Apr

What’s in a name?

    There are 1000s of varieties of cheese, all with their own name ranging from the mundane to the utterly unique. The world’s second most popular cheese, Cheddar, originated in Cheddar Somerset. Proof that an uncomplicated name can lead to world domination! Nobody really knows when cheesemaking began. Most likely its practice started around Read More…

15

Apr

Peas and cheese please…

Home grown veg and homemade cheese  Spring has arrived at The Big Cheese Making Kit’s HQ! All around the city there are copious amount of crocuses, and a host of golden daffodils. On that perfect Edinburgh morning – sun in the sky, a chill in the air – it is ridiculously beautiful. This inspired us Read More…

07

Apr

It’s not you it’s us!

Hello! Has it really been four months since we last updated this? No news is good news eh? Well in this case: yes.  No news simply means we’ve been incredibly busy and there hasn’t been enough hours in the day to update you all. Let’s change that. We’ve borrowed some more hands and we’re going Read More…