What is cheese? And what does it have in common with soap?

#104 Rebroadcast

Seriously what the heck is cheese? It's a question we've all wondered, but most of us only ever know that it's from milk—but what else? How do we turn milk into cheese? What's going on at the chemical level? And why do cheeses taste different from each other? Let's find out.

References from this episode

1. http://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html?
2. https://youtu.be/CkSPL5I3E0Y
3. https://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(87)80207-2/abstract
4. https://youtu.be/rttkpPFNkmY
5. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/past-issues/2017-2018/december2017/cheesy-science.html

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