EMMENTHALER / SWISS CHEESE - PRODUCTION AND DEFECTS

EMMENTHALER / SWISS CHEESE - PRODUCTION AND DEFECTS

Introduction

Manufacturing consistently high quality Swiss cheese, also known as Emmenthaler, requires a combination of ingredients and crucial production steps to be right.
Ingredients for example like the quality of milk used, cheese starter culture, eye-forming propionic bacteria, flavour adjuncts, and rennet.
Very precise processing steps includes cutting, cooking, water added, pressing, brining, storage & packaging.

**  Refer to article attached for more information on the manufacture as well as possible defects in Swiss cheese.

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