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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.

A man wearing a hairnet and gloves pours a dark liquid into a lighter-colored vat.

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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.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

A man wearing a hairnet and gloves pours a dark liquid into a lighter-colored vat.

The Science Behind Cheese Making

Cheese comes from milk—but it's not that simple.

Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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