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Ingredient

Rennet

Rennet is extracted from a calf’s stomach. Cooks use it with milk.

Made from
Calf stomach
Part used
Organ
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Sweden
Rennet, packaged

Photo: Rebecca Siegel · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use rennet

Cooking with it

Rennet coagulates milk, separating it into curds and whey for cheesemaking.

Goes well with

If you don’t have rennet

  • vinegar · Works in a pinch

    For acid-set soft cheeses.

On the table

Dishes made with rennet

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Ostkaka

    Sweden

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include rennet.

Family

Related forms

Made from
calf stomach (extracted)

Around the world

What rennet is called

Names in 54 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    cuajo

  • French

    présure · presure

  • Italian

    caglio · Presame

  • Portuguese

    coalho líquido · Renina · Coalho · Coalho líquido

  • German

    Lab · Mikrobielles Lab · Kälberferment · Labferment

  • Dutch

    stremsel · Gestremde melk · Lebmaagstremsel · Stremming

  • Greek

    Πυτιά

  • Turkish

    lab

  • Russian

    сычужный фермент · реннин · химозин

  • Polish

    podpuszczka

  • Arabic

    منفحة · منفحه

  • Persian

    پنیرمایه

Show all 54 languages

  • Albanian

    Mullëza

  • Aragonese

    Cuallo

  • Asturian

    cuayu

  • Basque

    gatzagi likido · gatzagi

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    сычужны фэрмэнт · хімазін

  • Bosnian

    Sirište · sirilo

  • Catalan

    quall

  • Chinese

    凝乳酶 · 凝乳酵素

  • Corsican

    Pirrulu · Pìrrulu

  • Croatian

    Sirište · sirilo

  • Czech

    syřidlo · Sýřidlo

  • Danish

    osteløbe

  • Egyptian Arabic

    منفحه

  • Esperanto

    labenzimo · labfermento

  • Estonian

    Laap · Juustujuuretis

  • Filipino

    Kuwaho

  • Finnish

    juoksute · juoksete

  • Galician

    callo · callada

  • Gujarati

    Reenet

  • Hebrew

    אנזים הגבנה

  • Indonesian

    Rennet

  • Irish

    binid

  • Japanese

    レンネット · レンニン · キモシン

  • Kannada

    ರೆನೆಟ್

  • Kazakh (Cyrillic)

    Мәйек · Мәндір

  • Korean

    레닛

  • Latin

    Coagulum

  • Latvian

    himozīns

  • Lithuanian

    Šliužo fermentas

  • Malay

    Renet

  • Māori

    reneti

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    løype · kymosin · osteløype · løpe

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    løype

  • Romanian

    Cheag

  • Scottish Gaelic

    binid

  • Serbian

    сириште · sirilo

  • Sicilian

    Quagghiu · Quagliu · Quaggiu

  • Simplified Chinese

    凝乳酶

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    凝乳酶

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    凝乳酶

  • Slovenian

    sirilo · sirišče

  • Swedish

    löpe · ostlöpe

  • Swiss German

    Lab

  • Traditional Chinese

    凝乳酶

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    凝乳酶

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    凝乳酶

  • Ukrainian

    сичужок

  • Venetian

    Conajo

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q326900

Photos

Photo: Rebecca Siegel · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons