Here's the difference between mild, sharp, and extra sharp cheddar cheese
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2017
- Cheddar cheese is usually labeled according to its "sharpness." Dr. Michael Tunick, author of "The Science of Cheese," explains the reason for this flavor grading. Following is a transcript of the video.
So basically the level of sharpness is up to the cheese company. My name is Michael Tunick, I am a research chemist for the US Department of Agriculture.As cheese ages, the flavor increases.
As more and more of the bacteria that we use to make the cheese, and the coagulant that was also used to make it, break down the protein and the fat.
And as they do, you get more and more compounds forming and many of those impart flavor to the product.
So as the cheese seats around, you are going to be getting more flavorful cheese.
Also more textural breakdown and that means that a cheddar cheese becomes sharper and sharper, but so would a lot of other varieties that are meant to be aged for quite a period of time.
There is different sharpness levels on cheddar, depending on how long it’s been aged. So a mild cheddar is one that hasn’t been around for very long and then, as the months go by, they can start labeling it as sharp or medium sharp, extra sharp - things like that.
There isn’t a labeling requirement as to what level of sharpness you can call it, but it only seems to apply to cheddar cheese in the United States. The oldest cheddar that we know of, was discovered a couple years ago. It was found in a cooler that was being emptied out it dated back to the Nixon administration.
So there is this 40-year-old cheddar cheese. It was probably super sharp, but it was still edible.
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I'm from Wisconsin and I can tell the age of cheddar from 1 yr to 10 yrs in a blind taste test, the sharpness is based on how pungent it is. cheese never goes bad. cheese is love, cheese is life.
jay kirksey + I envy you.... a good aged Wisconsin is pretty expensive to get in Cali, but the difference is clear
jay kirksey i love cheese~♡
bleachiniac cheese loves you. damn hard work to make it though
I also live in Wisconsin and I recently tried a 7 year aged cheddar from Stoneridge. Was pretty tasty. The oldest one sold at Woodman's stores is a 15 year aged cheddar. At least that was the oldest I saw.
So the more aged it is the smellier it is?
"Tech" "Insider"
thatoneguy33198 cheese truly is the pinnacle of technology
thatoneguy33198 cheese production falls underneath biotechnology, like fermentation.
philosophy
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So medium cheddar I see in stores must be ‘medium sharp’?
I’m someone who has a unhealthy obsession with all things cheese and I love learning about it, it’s nice to watch this video because one of my favorite cheeses is a 3 year aged white cheddar from black creek Wisconsin, I live in Virginia so it’s not the easiest to get but when I do it’s such a treat
I ordered some aged 17 years cheddar from a company in Wisconsin. The experience was indescribable. Do yourself a favor...get some.
are you telling me i cant use my extra sharp chedder cheese to cut my food?
MultiFlame11 why doesn't this have more likes
I cut my finger on a sharp cheddar slice. Ouch!
of course you can't idiot
@@itsover0404 *I T S A J O K E I D I O T*
EdgetheEpic *I T S A J O K E I D I O T*
I LOVE extra sharp cheddar cheese!! I bet that Nixon admin era cheese tastes GLORIOUS. I want a piece of that!!! Yummy!!!
Below is the only way I ever eat apples because I don't really like them that much
but 2 Honey Crisp apples with some sharp cheese and crackers with Guldens' spicey
mustard and a glass of chablis or zinfandel is my favorite lunch.
But I am flexible on the variety of apple and the brand of crackers.
I also seldom drink wine or eat cheddar cheese without the other 2 parts
of my 3 piece ensemble. I always slice the apples into thin sections before I begin.
This is my lunch 2-3 times a week.
It surprises me sometimes how much the taste of one fruit or vegetable
can be enhanced by what other things you eat them with.
WRZ
Delaware County, PA
This guy lunches!
@@maxpower10k I sometimes eat this for dinner instead of lunch.
You could also have it for a snack, instead of stuffing yourself with cookies.
WRZ
Glorious! Thank you for sharing.
I just conclude a mini home aging experiment. A little over a year ago, I put several blocks of inexpensive supermarket extra sharp cheddar in the back of the top shelf of my refrigerator (temp?), and seven months ago I put a few blocks in my cool basement (40F-50F) to sit out the winter. I just taste compared them against the same brand bought new from the store. Both were much more flavorful than the new stuff. So, don't pay more, just let them sit unopened in their little plastic skin. Remember, that block sat in its factory plastic for 40 years and supposedly turned out really good.
I prefer a super sharp chedder myself. One of my favorites is Hoffmann's Super Sharp Chedder.
it aint easy being cheesy
I love the crunchy crystals
Some fine pieces of technology
I wish I could go to Wisconsin just to live out my cheese lover dreams 😂😂.
For now I’ll have deal with my Cracker Barrel extra sharp cheddar. I just love the taste of “pungent/funky cheese”
yay cheese scientist is back!
I love a really sharp provolone!
I got a cheez-itz ad before this video started
What would you label the moon since it made out of cheese?
dafuq you talking about
Cameron Lawson the mün is made of cheese
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Ghostiesw Wulf uh, you're wrong here. The moon IS made out of cheese! Get your facts right!
Ghostiesw Wulf Um...the moon is definitely composed of cheese. Where do you think cheese comes from??
Cheddar rocks my world!
"The science of cheese"
Amazing. I don't know exactly what to say about that.
*Or just use mild, medium, mature, extra mature and vintage like the rest of the world*
We're Americans, we don't care about you.
Or you can stop trying to tell a whole other country what to do because you don't live in America
Boosted Bathtub Are*
Nathan Jones typical commie
Nathan Jones "Vintage" cheese? 😁
extra mature will always be top tier.
take a drink for each time he says "uh"
Best way to measure the sharpness with a chart is.. the sharp is the moisture level of the cheese.. so low Sharp requises leas heat to melt the cheese.. so extra Sharp has higher burn temperature.. due to less moisture as a effect of the coagulant the cheese company added.. take a small piece and melt it.. can give u a eye method to determine sharpness
*SUPER SHARP*
So if I touch it, will I cut my hand?
Awesome
I was gonna tell a *grate* joke but it was too *cheesy*
literal phandøm! trash +idk I thought it was pretty Gouda 😂😂 ok im done
literal phandøm! trash Like your breath with a hint of garlic and shite
literal phandøm! trash i actually wanna say something but your profile name already say it
lee fedz
???
MARS
Whats so bad about a joke jeez calm down
What version of USB is mild cheddar running? Need to pick up one for new laptop. Thanks, from brazil.
If I want to fry cheese, can 24 months vintage cheese melt or become soft enough while still in the shape I cut it into?
That's a nice thing about cheese. With the exception of soft cheese, unlike other foods, it can get moldy, but it is still edible under the new moldy rind, and while cheese is lost with the mold cut off, under the mold is sharper aged goodness
I found a razor blade in my cheese.
Must have been some edgy cheese
must have been some sharp ass cheese
Is there a point where it becomes too sharp to be edible I like super Sharp I've also noticed it gets very crumbly
Coagulant
Hmm
That's a gobblegum
Andrew Hernandez I never use that shit lol
Andrew Hernandez lmao thats that garbage tier shit
"Coagulant" is just referring to the rennet that they use to separate the curds from the whey
he's sending me to sleep
stay woke niqqa
You awake yet?
Imagine what he's like at a cocktail party.
@@lemurreborn probably a Rothschild they do that they want lmao
cathedral city: extra mature cheddar
mmmm yes please
I wonder what that 40 year old Super Sharp cheddar cheese would auction for ?
There's an extra sharp cheddar that I buy because it's good and inexpensive. The biggest problem is that it is inconsistent, one will be nice and sharp, the next too mild. So would bagging that cheese and leaving it in the fridge for a couple of months make it sharper?
I think there has to be specific environment for aging cheese but you could try to age it yourself, but if the cheese you get is packaged like from a factory it will probably just go bad
I would love to try that super sharp from the Nixon era. Lol wow talk about tasting sharp
I'd like Costco to hand out free samples of that 30 year old cheese ASAP.
Kaas is geweldig
i LOVE sharp cheddar
The guy in the beginning looks like a DUI attorney
eyyy! its the cheese scientist from the other video!
Is there a differennce between aged cheddar and cheddar cheese
It's 3 AM, why am I watching this?
Sarah Dwyer You like cheese that's why. 😂
Sarah Dwyer nobody cares
I Like my Cheddar so sharp that my tongue bleeds after eating it....lol.
I wish the more I sat around the better I would get ☹
Watching this whilst eating a mature cheddar cheese sandwich.
A good hunk of sharp cheddar, a link or 2 of polish sausage/kielbasa, a honeycrisp apple and some good hearty crackers (maybe rosemary or something); that's an automatic win at lunch/charcuterie.
Cool
this video showed just how short my attention span is
does that mean cheese never goes bad?
Nacho TV I’d think if it was kept cold it’d be fine, but if left in the heat it’d go rancid pretty quick
I love mild Cheddar
i love cheese
Im eatin on a 5 year aged cheddar while watching this xD
Do, when a phone dies, why when you try to turn it on, how does it have enough battery to show the dead battery picture?
all i want to do is giving this guy a makeover....and eat cheddar
i love extra sharp
He’s sending me to sleep while eating a block of cheese
what do they mean by sharp
How sharp are the Green Bay Packers?
Christopher Sifuentes GoPackGo
uuh....thanks I guess
Sometimes, I enjoy cheese. Other times I will have a 2nd helping and enjoy it further. I've been told I'm "Pretty Metal."
what is the difference between cheese and cheddar cheese???
I'm not brave enough to eat super sharp 40 year old cheese
You're, uh, gonna get fucking uh, more... Cheese.
How come cheese can age for years but in my fridge it's only 7 days after opening?
I like chese
I don’t care how sharp it is, it’s still delicious
I say this about my kitchen knife too
@@pronoob3525 That is very concerning my friend.
can sharp cheddar cut steel?
Mmmmm....cheddar cheese..
I thought I was watching a "Cheddar" video, would've been great though
Could've said "grate"
ASMR god
I want infinity sharp
Duh, more sharpness so it's easier to cut with. That's how cheese works.
they still haven't explained the word 'sharp' and how its used in cheese science
Sharp cheese?
*Stabs someone with cheese*
I wonder what they did with that old 40+ yr cheese: fondue? grilled cheese sandwich? inside a burger? wine and cheese?
Guys. Let's buy a wheel of cheese and leave it in a capsule for 1000 years so the flavour will be so sharp it could slit a fucking throat
Extra sharp is the shit. I love to just buy a block and eat a few cubes.
If its better with age than why does cheese mold in the fridge??
Sharp cheese on the east coast can induce pain. Not so much on the west coast cheeses. My experience anyway.
Im addicted to Bacteria
put this shit out for a decade and its razor sharp
The sharper the better, IMO. Cabot Seriously Sharp is good.
Yeah especially during sword combat
sharp cheese is the best
The sharper the better
this question isnt cheesy
No bun intended
Why is it orange
Extra sharp is the best.
I don’t know what I expected from this, I got something though.🤷♂️
TeCh iNsIdEr
The sharper the crumblier
I like my cheese Extra Extra Sharp 🧀
Idgaf cheddar cheese so damn good
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I want that 40 year old cheese.
How about medium cheddar? IT’S PERFECT 🧀
I still don't know what the hell "sharp" is supposed to mean.
White super sharp chedder 🧀 is the best!!! I dont like when they color it yellow it don't affect flavor but real chedder is white!
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