How is cheese made?
Milk's Big Squeeze
How is cheese made?
It starts with a bucket of milk, plain and white and sloshing. Hard to believe this calm liquid is about to become something stretchy, sharp, holey, or blue. So how does milk grow up to be cheese? Let's follow it.
Milk is mostly water with tiny bits of fat and protein floating around in it, like clouds drifting in a glass. Cheese-making is really one long, clever trick: convince all those floating bits to clump together and let the watery part go. Everything else is just flavor and patience.
