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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 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.

A slice of lasagna garnished with basil sits on a white plate, with a baking dish of lasagna, olive oil, tomatoes, basil leaves, and a red chili pepper nearby.

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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.

How Is Cheese Made?

If Wisconsin was a country, it would rank fourth in the world in cheese production.

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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.

The cheese-making process

Cheese production, step-by-step.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

A slice of lasagna garnished with basil sits on a white plate, with a baking dish of lasagna, olive oil, tomatoes, basil leaves, and a red chili pepper nearby.

Lasagna

Portion of baked lasagna served on a plate.

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