How are mozzarella cheese sticks (string cheese) formed?
I love string cheese.
I have had some success making homemade mozzarella but I am not particularly skilled yet at kneading the curd. My mozzarella balls sometimes end up with an uneven texture.
How can I knead the curd to end up with sticks where the cheese grain is all parallel along the length of the stick?
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Best Answer
That's called String Cheese, and it's actually quite traditional to a number of cultures ... Italian, Armenian, Mexican, Slovak ... as well as Wisconsin. It's popular around the world because the technique for making it is easily learned and adaptable. You can even make it from store-bought cheese, as well as your own cheese.
- Make or buy a stretchy high-temperature (thermophilic) cheese, such as mozzarella.
- Heat the cheese in very hot water (traditional method) or the microwave (modern method) until soft, pliable, and stretchy.
- Pull the cheese out into a long strand, then double it over. Wear gloves, the cheese will be hot.
- Repeat steps 2-3 as many times as necessary.
- As the strands start getting thin, twist the cheese into a braid.
This is the sort of thing it's better to see than to describe, but I haven't been able to find a good video showing you how.
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Equipment for making string cheese String cheese are mozzarella cheese sticks, perfectly snack-sized at around 28 grams per piece. The stringiness is created by the way string cheese is processed with hot water – the cheese is stretched and pulled by augers in a cooker stretcher while being heated to 60C.How is mozzarella string cheese made?
String cheese today is made simply by heating fresh mozzarella to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature just hot enough to realign the milk proteins naturally found in cheese. When the cheese is heated and stretched, the proteins line up, creating that signature string-like texture.Is mozzarella string cheese real cheese?
Well the good news is string cheese is 100 percent cheese \u2014 mozzarella cheese to be exact. It's a combination of natural ingredients \u2014 milk, culture and something called rennet, which is basically an enzyme used to turn the milk into a thick curd.What is the process of making string cheese?
Preparation. Mozzarella sticks are prepared by coating cheese strings in breadcrumbs or batter. They may be baked or fried in oil. Mozzarella sticks are usually served with tomato sauce or marinara sauce.Cheese sticks production
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Answer 2
Oh you mean cheesesticks not the fried mozzeralla sticks.
I would imagine you would knead it by using the folding method in which you flatten the cheese and fold one end of the cheese over to the other end and continue folding it in that fashion(and the same direction).
Also note that the mozzeralla sticks you buy at grocery stores are machine processed and you can't really hope to achieve that same results/texture.
Answer 3
The stretch and fold method, over and over. If your cheese is stretching with no curd chunks left, then this stretch fold method makes better string cheese than any I could buy. After the repeated method done, role it into a long snake, then cut to size.
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