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A round wheel of cheese with a wedge cut out sits on a blue wooden surface, overlaid with large text reading How It's Made and very light blue question marks in the background.
Block of swiss cheese with holes alongside wine bottles and glasses on a table.
Split screen of milk being poured and a block of orange cheese.
A man wearing a hairnet and gloves pours a dark liquid into a lighter-colored vat.
A detailed diagram visually explains the cheese-making process, showing steps from raw milk and pasteurization, through fermentation, curdling, cutting, cooking, milling, salting, molding, pressing, draining, and ripening into finished cheese. A person in a white coat pours rennet from a measuring tube into a large copper vat of milk while stirring, part of the cheese making process. Cheese curds Camembert cheese
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cheese making: References & Edit History

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Media added. Aug 18, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - From Cheese-Making to Consumption: Exploring the Microbial Safety of Cheeses through Predictive Microbiology Models. May 05, 2026
New article added. Jul 14, 2023
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