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Scientists Discover Why Mozzarella is the Ideal Pizza Cheese

posted by janrinok on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:16PM   
from the now-I-feel-hungry... dept.

AnonTechie writes:

This being the weekend, something in a lighter vein:

Pizza is essentially the perfect food. Well, so long as you aren't lactose intolerant or have problems with gluten. NPR spotted a study of why different cheeses diverge in looks and taste when baked. Seriously. In a paper called "Quantification of Pizza Baking Properties of Different Cheeses, and Their Correlation with Cheese Functionality," researchers found that, among other things, the reason why mozzarella is so unique of a topping has to do with the way it's prepared. The cheese bubbles and browns because of its inherent elasticity due to stretching. In contrast, cheddar isn't as ideal because it isn't very elastic, thus it doesn't bubble as well. The same apparently goes for Edam and Gruyere, too.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/30/mozzarella-pizza-cheese/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/27/342448774/science-crowns-mozzarella-the-king-of-pizza-cheese

[Abstract]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1750-3841.12540/abstract

• Re:well Re:well (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 31 2014, @07:06PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 31 2014, @07:06PM (#87894) Journal

  in this household Gigabyte is still 2^30 bit.

  Others would call that 128 Megabytes! ;-)

  --
  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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• Re:well (Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Monday September 01 2014, @03:15PM

  by marcello_dl (2685) on Monday September 01 2014, @03:15PM (#88106)

  In this household a bit is very capable.

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