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US 11,744,260 B2Granted
Method of producing naturally wood smoked cheese
AssigneeHilmar Cheese Company
InventorJeremy McLeod
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Abstract
A smoked block of cheese is prepared by exposing the curds to smoke. The smoked block of cheese is evenly smoked and obtained in a shorter period of the time than is required to evenly smoke an entire block of cheese.
Claims6
A method of producing smoked cheese comprising the following steps:
- (a) adding wood smoke to a cheese curd at a ratio of 0.001 m3 to 1 m3 of wood smoke to 1 kg of cheese curd,
- (b) incubating the wood smoke and the cheese curd to produce a stirred curd, wherein incubating comprises smoking the cheese curd while stirring the cheese curd continuously, wherein stirring the cheese curd prevent matting of the cheese curd,
- (c) pressing the stirred curd obtained into a desired shape, and
- (d) allowing the stirred curd pressed into a desired shape from step (c) to age for 1 day to 15 years to obtain smoked cheese,
- wherein the smoked cheese comprises a strength of smoke flavor within +/−10% at any location sampled from the desired shape of the smoked cheese.
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