Wednesday, August 22, 2007

String Cheese. Totally Ripped From Wikipedia.

Several different types of cheese are known as string cheese.

Traditional Armenian string cheese is made with a white base. The type of milk used depends on local production methods. It includes black caraway seeds and a middle-eastern spice known as mahleb, and it comes in the form of a braided endless loop. The cheese forms strings because of the way it is pulled during processing. There is also Syrian cheese processed this way. Other cheeses are only cut and pressed, not pulled, and don't develop strings.

A non-traditional but popular processed cheese product called "string cheese" is currently sold in the United States. This form of "string cheese" is roughly cylindrical, about 6 inches (15 cm) long and less than 1 inch (2 cm) in diameter. The cheese is cut and packaged, either individually or as a package of several lengths. The cheese product used is nearly always a form of mozzarella but may be another semi-soft cheese. This type of string cheese is eaten by pulling strips of cheese from the cylinder along its length and eating these strings. Due to the amount of processing, this processed form of string cheese is quite high in salt and hence is not recommended to be eaten in large quantities.