Unknown history of process cheese and powdered cheese deeply linked with war

The cheeses that you can enjoy topping with various dishes such as pizza, hamburger, pasta, etc. are made easier to use and easy to preserveProcess cheeseYaPowdered cheeseis. The unknown history of such processed cheeseThe New YorkerIt is published together with the movie together.

Video: A Brief History of Cheese Powder: The New Yorker
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It is possible to confirm from the following movie that "powder cheese is born and how it is made".

Object of Interest: Cheese Powder - YouTube


In the United StatesMacaroni and cheeseAnd cheese puff,NachosCheese is used for various foods such as. More than billions of dollars are spent on foods using these cheese every year, Food Scientist Stephen WitherlyDescribe in your own paperdoing.


Taco BellProvide "Doritos · Locos · TacosIn the menu "Doritos"Nachos cheese" taste is used, but this "Doritos · Locos · Tacos" series has sold more than 1 billion dollars (about 100 billion yen) so far since the start of sales in March last year It is a popular item of. These foods include "Powdered cheeseAlthough it is using everyday, how and when was it born? How is it born?


Natural cheese until the beginning of the 20th century (unheated cheese) had a weak point that it will be damaged soon. It was in 1916 that such a revolution occurred in the cheese industry. American James L. Kraft got patented process cheese "melt with natural cheese to melt and add salt as an emulsifier", which will create cheese that can be stored for a long time. In addition, Kraft sold about 6 million pounds (about 2700 tons) of processed cheese to the US government during the First World War.

As a better way to prevent cheese from being damaged afterwards, the term "dehydrate cheese" appeared. The most popular cheese processing method applying thisSpray dryingTo make cheese into a powder shape using. Powdered cheese made using this spray drying was developed by American army as "a means to make it possible to preserve it even under circumstances that can not be withstood with natural cheese"The Fundamentals of Cheese ScienceIt seems as described in.


For the method of producing powdered cheese, cheese heated until it becomes liquid ... ...


Spray drying


Then it gets dry and puffy ... ...



If you break this, it becomes powder cheese.


However, many companies have argued that they made powdered cheese themselves, especially the processed food companies in DenmarkLactosan"When one of our customers returned the processed cheese because there was no place to save it, Mr. Christian Jessen of the plant manager melted the cheese and experimented to see if spray drying technology could be applied, so that in 1951 Cheese was made into powder "ClaimDoing it, AmericanCommercial Creamery Company"I have been devising a method for producing powdered cheese for more than 60 years ago", and the source of the production method of powdered cheese is unclear.


Enzyme-treated cheese is developed in the 1960's. It has a stronger flavor and aroma than ordinary cheese, which means that punch is effective 5 to 20 times of natural cheese. It is said that this enzyme-treated cheese contains a lot of whey and other ingredients.


As cheese is used in a variety of foods, it is very difficult to guess exactly how much is being used in the food industry as a whole, but in the United States it costs 23 pounds (about 10 kg) per person It is speculated that cheese is consuming every year.