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Ricottone is a boundary entry, set by heat, not by microbes. Sheep, goat or cow whey is heated in a tinned copper cauldron to about 80–90 °C with salt and a little milk, and the flakes drain a whole day in rush baskets. The ricotta is then dry-salted for at least a week and ripened about 2 months in a cool dark room, and can be aged up to a year.
Heat and acid set the curd; ONAF calls it thermo-acid coagulation.
Total time across the recorded steps: 2.3 months – 12 months
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What changes:Salt and a little milk go into the whey as it warms to about 65 °C
Step 1 of 5
Filter and warm the whey
Time
Not documented
Temperature
65 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Coarse salt and, if used, milk go in at this point.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Ricottone is a boundary entry, set by heat, not by microbes. Sheep, goat or cow whey is heated in a tinned copper cauldron to about 80–90 °C with salt and a little milk, and the flakes drain a whole day in rush baskets. The ricotta is then dry-salted for at least a week and ripened about 2 months in a cool dark room, and can be aged up to a year. Made in 5 steps over 2.3 months – 12 months. The longest step, ripen and age, takes 2–12 months (Regione Calabria).
A Calabrian way to keep ricotta that could not be sold fresh, by salting it dry for a week and ripening it for months. It is often made by the same farmers who keep the animals and sold directly.
Size
Cylinder about 20 cm long and 10 cm across, 500–1000 g
Rind
Rough, with basket marks; brownish
Season
March to September in the regional sheet; March to November in the ONAF sheet
The whey is heated to 80–90 °C. The ONAF sheet lists the risks of unpasteurised whey and milk (total bacteria, somatic cells and Staphylococcus aureus), tinned copper, wooden tools and the ageing rooms. It says the milk problems can be overcome by checking the milk (or thermising or pasteurising it), good hygiene, and discarding any product that looks abnormal.
Hazards the sources name: Staphylococcus aureus, a risk the ONAF sheet names for unpasteurised whey and milk.
The regional sheet says that traditionally a part of the ricotta was eaten fresh or smoked and aged, a custom that arose from the need to keep the fresh ricotta that could not be sold in time. The ONAF sheet says that long ago shepherds in distant mountain areas kept the unsold fresh ricotta by salting and ageing it, to sell at local markets.