Disastrous Mozzarella!

Well the first attempt at homemade mozzarella appears to be a disaster. The instructions say you can use store bought milk. So I tried it with Wal-Mart's Great Value brand. I ended up with something that looked like Ricotta and made my kitchen, towels and hands smell like sour milk. Yuck! The instructions also say that you cannot use ultra-pasteurized milk. The milk jug doesn't say ultra-pasteurized, but I have noticed in the last year or so that all the cream, half-and-half and organic milk cartons in the grocery store are labeled ultra-pasteurized.

I'm not going to give up yet, the instructions say if you have trouble with store bought milk to make a gallon using dry milk powder. I don't know how I got so lucky to marry a man who supports all my crazy schemes, but he just ran off to the store to get some dry milk powder while I clean up this mess I have in the kitchen!