String cheese . It ’s one of the wonder of the world , right along withsea rascal , male nipplesand decaf java . I mean , whatexactlyis string tall mallow and how does it get , well , sinewy ?
Well the salutary news is string high mallow is 100 pct tall mallow — mozzarella cheeseto be exact . It ’s a combination of rude ingredients — Milk River , culture and something calledrennet , which is basically an enzyme used to turn the milk into a thick curd . ( Some mozzarella purists say the milk has to total from water buffalo that dwell in specific regions of Italy , but let ’s stay ground in reality here . )
Whenmaking mozzarella , the curds are heat up to 140 level Fahrenheit ( 60 degrees Celsius ) . Once it accomplish that temperature , the Milk River proteins move around and describe up together in a row . At this point , the cheese becomes stretchable and can be shaped into those mozzarella ball you see in the dairy farm section of the food market computer memory .
Now is where thing get different : rather of molding the cheese into balls of fresh mozzarella , the cheese is disregard into strip show and debase and stretched andstretchedsome more . The first to do this wasWisconsin cheesemaker Frank Baker .
Although twine high mallow is 100 percent mozzarella cheese , it ’s not the same as the soft , smoother fresh mozzarella . The biggest difference between the two is that unfermented mozzarella is kept in water or saltwater , and string high mallow ( which is made with lowly wet Milk River ) is dried out . Yum . smart mozzarella also does n’t keep most as long , and does n’t mellow out especially well either , but many people prefer its taste and grain .
By the fashion , mozzarella is the only tall mallow that has the " stringy " properties to become bowed stringed instrument cheeseflower . Armerican cheddar and other cheeseflower sticks in the grocery store are sell in like packaging , but they are really impostors telephone " cheeseflower snacks . "
So in a nutshell , string cheeseflower is basically just super - stretched out mozzarella . So you may keep on let in it in your kid ' lunch box — guilt feelings - free . Now what ’s in those individually wrappedorange cheese sliceswe ca n’t say , and that ’s definitely another floor for another mean solar day .
