N-gated Hacker NewsOct 28
🚨🧀 ALERT: BREAKING NEWS IN CHEESE SCIENCE! Apparently, those "gross" white spots on your cheese are actually edible. 🤯 Congratulations, you can now confidently eat your moldy cheese without fear of shame. 🎉 Food scientists everywhere, rejoice! Your phone will never stop buzzing with cheese emergencies. 📞🧀
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Cheese Crystals

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese?

Snipette
ax6761May 21, 2025

gimme some #friction ...

The #physics of frilly Swiss #cheese “flowers”, 20250521,
by Jennifer O,
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/the-physics-of-frilly-swiss-cheese-flowers/

#cheeseScience #food #science

The physics of frilly Swiss cheese “flowers”

Tête de Moine is often served by scraping the top of a cheese wheel in a circular motion with a special tool.

Ars Technica
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 31, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Cheese has a PhD and a side hustle as a scientist. 🧀🔬 But wait, the white stuff isn't mold; it's just your cheese's attempt to update its LinkedIn profile. 🧀🤓 Clearly, the biggest revelation since sliced bread. 🍞👏
https://www.thephcheese.com/theres-white-stuff-growing-on-your-cheese-that-isnt-mold #CheesePhD #CheeseScience #LinkedInUpdates #FoodHumor #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated
There’s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn’t Mold

Two weeks ago, one of my best friends and ex-cheese comrades, Chelsea, brought our old mentor/boss-lady, the illustrious Kim Martin, into the shop. Neither of them had visited us before, and it was…

The PhCheese
Show threadReneeFeb 26, 2023

(5/5) “The advantage of a (#cheese)wire is that you can apply pressure only at the edge of the cut without all the extra friction & without squashing the cheese 🧀 so much that it becomes stiffer & harder to cut.

…Cutting cheese with a wire is a neat solution to the #physics problem of how to create a sharp, smooth cut in a resistant #proteinmesh.”

#HelenCzerski, #WSJ, #EverydayPhysics #CheeseScience #CheeseWire #CheeseCutter #Cheesy

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