Curd & Cave is a calm companion for home cheesemaking — from the first pot of milk to the day you cut the wheel. Guided stages, exact quantities, and a cave that remembers every flip.
Six quiet habits Curd & Cave builds into your cheesemaking — so nothing gets left to memory.
Tell it how much milk you're using and Curd & Cave works out the culture, rennet, calcium chloride, salt and brine for your exact batch and kind of milk.
Every stage shows its target temperature and a timer that keeps counting while you stir, with plain notes on what to look for before moving on.
When the curd is set, clear pictures walk you through a soft set, a clean break and an overset curd — so you cut with confidence, not a guess.
Float a little bowl, give it a twirl, tap when it stops turning. Curd & Cave works out exactly when to cut from how your milk behaved today.
Mozzarella, halloumi, paneer, ricotta, feta, chèvre, camembert, gouda, caerphilly and tomme — plus space to write your own stages, temperatures and aging plan.
Swipe a wheel to flip it, rub its rind, watch the ring of days fill in. A daily cave-round reminder tells you which wheels are waiting.
This is the same math that runs inside the app. Pick a cheese, tell it how much milk is in your pot, and see every addition scaled instantly.
Figures are a teaching approximation of typical home-dairy ratios — always weigh against your culture and rennet manufacturer's instructions.
We're a small team of home cheesemakers who got tired of sticky notes on the fridge, half-remembered flip schedules, and recipe books written for a pot size that was never ours. Curd & Cave started as our own tool for keeping a kitchen dairy honest, before we decided other makers deserved the same quiet order.
Our mission is simple: take the anxiety out of the vat. Cheesemaking rewards patience and attention, not stress about whether you measured the rennet right or forgot which wheel needed turning. We build the calm so you can focus on the milk in front of you.
The app gives you scaled recipes for your exact batch, stage-by-stage timers with target temperatures, a knife-test guide for reading your curd, and a living care schedule for every wheel resting in your cave — from the day it's pressed to the day you finally cut it.
"Warm the milk. We'll mind the clock."
Curd & Cave was built to run entirely on your phone — here's exactly what that means for your information.
Curd & Cave: Cheese Making does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data of any kind. Every recipe you scale, every timer you run, every wheel you log and every tasting note you write stays on the device you typed it into. This policy explains how, and why, in nine short sections.
None. We do not ask for your name, email, location, photos, or any account details. The app has no sign-up screen because it has nothing to sign you up for.
Since nothing is collected, nothing is used. We do not analyze your batches, study your aging schedules, build a profile of your habits, or sell any information to anyone — there is simply nothing of yours to trade.
Your recipes, batch logs, wheel care history and tasting notes are stored locally on your device only. There is no cloud sync, no remote server, and no backup copy sitting anywhere outside your phone.
Curd & Cave contains no analytics software, no advertising networks, and no third-party trackers. Nothing about your use of the app is reported anywhere, by us or by anyone else.
Because your cheesemaking journal never leaves your device, it is protected by the same security you already trust to guard your phone — no separate server to breach, because no server holds it.
Curd & Cave is suitable for makers of any age precisely because it collects no personal data from anyone, including children. There is nothing to gather, so there is nothing to protect against improperly gathering.
There are no accounts to manage and nothing to request a copy of. Deleting the app from your device removes every recipe, timer, wheel record and tasting note completely and permanently.
If our approach to your privacy ever changes, we will update this page with a new effective date and describe the change plainly, before it applies to any future version of the app.
Questions about this policy can be sent to privacy@curdcavecheesemakingapp.com.
💌 Whether your curd won't break clean or you just want to tell us about your first mozzarella, we'd genuinely love to hear from you.
Questions about the app, a recipe, or how something works.
hello@curdcavecheesemakingapp.comSomething not tracking right, or a timer acting up.
helpdesk@curdcavecheesemakingapp.comCollaborations, press, or dairy-world partnerships.
partners@curdcavecheesemakingapp.com⏳ We read every note ourselves and reply within 24–48 hours.