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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
How Bacteria “Blow” Holes in Swiss Cheese
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How Is Cheese Made?
If Wisconsin was a country, it would rank fourth in the world in cheese production.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Why Does Some Cheese Have Holes?
Learn how cheese is made, including how holes form in certain types of cheese.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
How Does Milk Become Cheese?
There's good bacteria and there's bad bacteria.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The Science Behind Cheese Making
Cheese comes from milk—but it's not that simple.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How Bacteria “Blow” Holes in Swiss Cheese
Learn from an affineur (who oversees the maturing of cheese) about how the...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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cheese making
Workers at a Wisconsin dairy plant flipping the curd during cheese making.
© 2018 Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Inc.
The cheese-making process
Cheese production, step-by-step.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
rennet in cheese making
Rennet, which contains the protease enzyme chymosin, being added to milk during cheese...
© Fedecandoniphoto/Dreamstime.com
Cheese curds
Cheese curds rolling along a conveyor belt in preparation for being cut, stirred,...
© Photos.com/Jupiterimages
Camembert cheese
Camembert cheese.
J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd./Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Roquefort cheese
Roquefort cheese.
Steve Moss/Food Features
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