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C'mon guys, please! This is about cheese - is there nothing you don't want to argue about?
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Processed cheese (also known as prepared cheese, cheese product, plastic cheese or cheese singles) is a food product made from cheese and other unfermented dairy ingredients mixed with emulsifiers. Additional ingredients, such as vegetable oils, salt, food coloring, or sugar may be included.
Cheese is made by adding an enzyme called rennet to milk, then straining the curd from the whey. This gives you a mixture of milk fat held together with proteins – mainly casein. Fresh cheese contains lots of water so it’s soft and delicate.
As it matures into cheddar, the water evaporates and the cheese becomes firmer. After a week or two, you have mild cheddar, which is quite strong and elastic as the casein holds it together. But some rennet is always left behind and manufacturers often inject other enzymes as well. These slowly break down the casein as the cheddar matures. Mature cheddar is crumbly because it’s drier, but also because it doesn’t have as much casein reinforcement.
Cheese is only part of my shop there. Pies, sausages, bacon, beans, soup, Branston, gravy granules, puddings just to list a few. Cheese is quite low on the list. I think I pay 200 baht for a kilo of grated cheddar. It's the only thing I can remember buying on it's own.Unless you're buying other stuff, that is a very expensive 500฿/Kg.