THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Cheese board

Mozzarella

Milk, butter and cheese

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • M4 amended Safety Mozzarella kept at most 3 days in light soured brine (15 to 20 g/l); Listeria grows in the cold and endangers the pregnant and the old
  • M13 confirmed Calf under 2 weeks, 90 to 95 % chymosin; older calves give bitter cheese
  • M14 confirmed Chymosin cuts the kappa-casein coat at one site; micelles aggregate once about 85 % are cut; a thousand micelles across a hair
  • M24 partly confirmed Mozzarella stretches at pH 5.2; Campania found it "three hundred years before" measurement
  • M41 confirmed Mozzarella: 200 ml whey per 10 l for 1 h at 35 °C; cut to hazelnuts; cook to 38 to 40 °C; ripen 2 to 4 h; hot-water strip test; stretch in water at 80 °C