Pasta filata-simulative cheese product and method of making

USRE37264E · kind E · reissue

Assignee

• Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation · US

Inventors

• Carol M. Chen · Madison, US
• Mark Johnson · Mount Prospect, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 10, 2000
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 10, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A method of manufacturing cheese which is simulative of pasta filata cheeses, but which does not require a mixing and/or molding step, and the cheese product produced by the method, are disclosed. The method includes the steps of pre-acidifying milk; ripening the milk with a mesophilic starter culture to yield cheese milk; coagulating the cheese milk by adding a coagulant to yield a coagulum; cutting the coagulum to yield curds and whey; separating the curds from the whey and washing the curds in water; and proceeding directly to salt, hoop, and press the curds in the absence of any milling, mixing, or molding of the curds.