US 2014/0272040 A1 · Cheese Shred Product And Method Of Making

Abstract

A method of forming cheese shreds having a wide or modified crescent shape is provided. By one approach, the method includes preparing a block of cheese by chilling the cheese to a predetermined temperature and/or reducing the size of the cheese block into cheese portions or cubes. Next, the cheese portions or cubes are fed into a shredder with shredding blades having a sinusoidal configuration. The shredder is operated to shred the cheese into modified crescent shapes with an upper and lower curved surfaces and tapered ends therebetween. Further, the modified crescent shaped cheese shreds have improved meltability such that a smaller amount of cheese can be used to achieve greater coverage, flavor, and mouth feel, as compared to previous cheese shred configurations.

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Dependent claims

A method for mass-producing a shredded cheese product having improved meltability, the method comprising:

providing a block of cheese to be shredded;
feeding the block of cheese to a rotary shredder having a rotary drum;
forming a formed cheese shred with the rotary shredder, the formed cheese shred having a modified crescent shape with a first curved side, a second curved side and two tapered ends joining the first and second curved side, the formed cheese shred having a non-symmetrical degree of curvature between the first and second curved sides;
and
wherein the first curved side has larger radius of curvature than the second curved side and the modified crescent cheese shred exhibiting a high meltability factor such that individual ones of the formed cheese shreds with the modified crescent shape are not distinguishable from a mass of the melted modified crescent shape cheese shreds.

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