. THE. CHEESE COURSE A PRIMER
Apr 14, 2020
3 minutes
is made from four ingredients — milk, salt, cultures, and enzymes. The milk is purposefully curdled due to the added cultures, like Lactobacilli, and enzymes, like rennet, which cause the milk to separate into curds and whey. The whey is removed, the curds are smushed or pressed together, salt gets added, and depending upon the cheese, it’s left to age, or not. Another way to say it, cheesemaking gives milk immortality by removing moisture to make it stable in the form of curds. That’s a very general description, but cheese is so much
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