Is cheese made of mold?!
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Cheese is not made of mold, it is made of milk and other dairy products. It can develop mold with age though.
not all cheese is but some cheeses are.... blue cheese for example is made from mold.... disgusting if you ask me!
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why yes.. it is
YEA NO
i believe all cheeses are mold....just aged many years before being packaged.
no, but some cheeses contain mold, like Blue Cheese. yummy
I do not think so. Cheese grows mold on it if it is left too long. Mold can't grow mold.
well some types are thought that does NOT mean grow mold and call it cheese
The flavor of cheeses are caused by various molds which are introduced to the cheese (blue being the most widely known). For example, cheddar cheese is washed with a solution (don't remember of what thought, sorry) during the several months it is allowed to age and press.
No.
Some cheese are innoculated w/ a particular strain of a mold (ie: blue cheeses) to develop the flavor and texture, but it's not willy-nilly, it's very precise and a centuries-old technique.
most kinds but regular like cheddar but bleu cheese
no cheese is made from milk or cream. (depending on he kind of cheese. so its allll cow, goat or sheep.
when cheese is made, its really really white, and rather falvourless. so cheese is ripened. which means its left in a cellar to age, colour and develop flavour. most yellow cheeses are cleaned with vinegar (in old times) or sealed in plastic 'skins' to keep mold and bacteria out.
examples of yellow cheeses:
Gouda, Old Amsterdam
some cheeses however, are left to mold over with a specific edible kind of mold. this layer of mold does the same as the plastic does in yellow cheeses. it protect the cheese while it ripens. some cheases they also let the mold vein in.
som examples of these moldy cheeses are:
brie, roquefort, stilton, danish blue.
The answer depends on the type of cheese, really. To make cheese, whey is separated from the curds. The curds are usually pressed into forms and drained, some are cut, hand molded... then a started culture/rennet is added and the cheese is left to age anywhere between a few hours, days, or years. Cheese with white rind, such as bries and camemberts have a white mold on the outside. Grocery store quality bries and camemberts have thick, spray on rinds that are added to speed up production process, where as traditional cheeses are allowed to develop their natural rinds over a period of a few weeks, like brie de meaux. Blue cheeses usually have certain strains of mold mixed into the milks to begin with (some dont). During their aging process they are all poked with needles to introduce more mold cultures and air into the cheese, letting the mold, and flavor, develop (those lines you see in blue cheese sometime are needle marks). Aged cheeses, such as cheddars, goudas, alpine cheeses, and some italian cheeses generally are not "made of mold". Just aged milk. Stinkier cheeses also do not involve mold, just certain totally edible bacterias. So in general, cheese is not made of mold, it is just used as, i guess you could say, a flavoring, in some cases.