Process for the manufacture of cheese
AssigneeFusion Specialty Ingredients Limited
InventorsConor Buckley, Kieran Lonergan
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an improved process for the manufacture of cheese, in particular hard and semi-hard cheese types. There is provided a process for the manufacture of a natural cheese comprising the steps of inoculating milk with a bacterial starter culture, adding rennet to form a curd, and subjecting the curd to a salting step by the addition of salt wherein a hydrocolloid or mixture thereof is added to the curd during the salting step and the hydrocolloid or mixture thereof replaces at least part of the salt or is in addition to the salt used during the salting step. There is also provided the use of such a salt and hydrocolloid mixture as a process aid during the salting step of natural cheese production.
Claims29
An improved salting process for the manufacture of hard or semi-hard cheese comprising:
- a. inoculating milk with a bacterial starter culture;
- b. adding rennet to form a curd;
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- c. subjecting the curd to a salting step by the addition of salt;
- wherein a hydrocolloid or mixture thereof is added to the curd during the salting step and the hydrocolloid or mixture thereof replaces part of the salt or is in addition to the salt used during the salting step.
Use of a salt and a hydrocolloid mixture as a process aid during the salting step of hard and semi-hard cheese production wherein the hydrocolloid or mixture thereof is added to curd during the salting step and the hydrocolloid or mixture thereof replaces part of the salt or is in addition to the salt used during the salting step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.