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US 2017/0290351 A1Published application
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.
Claims20
A method of producing a block of smoked cheese comprising producing cheese curd;
- adding wood smoke to cheese curd at a ratio of 0.001 to 1 m3 of wood smoke to 1 kg of cheese curd;
- incubating the wood smoke with the cheese curd at temperature range of 4 to 55° C.;
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- pressing the cheese curd to form a block of smoked cheese.
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