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US 6,440,481 B1Granted
Method of making pasta filata cheese
AssigneeBongards' Creameries, Inc.
InventorsTroy Gascoigne, Brent Jewett, Roger Ochsner
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Abstract
A method of making a pasta filata cheese can use equipment and methods typically used in making processed cheese. The method produces a cheese having all of the characteristics of a traditional pasta filata cheese in improved yields and with reduced waste by-products. Pasta filata designates cheeses having a plastic pliable homogeneous stringy structure, and includes such well-know cheeses as mozzarella and provolone.
Claims4
A method of making a pasta filata cheese comprising:
- blending a typical pasta filata-type cheese curd,
- injecting steam into the blended curd just until the blended curd forms a uniformly melted product, and
- packaging and cooling the melted product;
- wherein various ingredients are added before injecting steam into the blended curd to optimize quality of the pasta filata cheese, the ingredients selected from non-fat dry milk, anhydrous milk fat, milk protein concentrate, concentrated milk fat, dry cream, emulsifier, water, salt and mixtures thereof.
1 more element
A method according to clam 1, that is brine-free and wherein the melted product is blast cooled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.