Why does cheese stretch when it melts?
The Great Cheese Stretch
Why does cheese stretch when it melts?
You pull a slice of hot pizza toward your mouth, and suddenly you're lifting a cheese curtain into the air. What's happening? Why does melted cheese stretch like rubber, when solid cheese just crumbles?
The answer lives inside cheese itself, in tiny invisible ropes called proteins. Cheese is packed with them — thousands of protein strands tangled together like a ball of yarn that's been through the washing machine.
