[Cheese] cheese coloring

[Jack Schmidling]

Beth Hill wrote:
> i'm a rookie.  my kids take one look at white cheese and won't touch  
> it.  can you color cheese with food coloring or do you have to use  
> something special to color it with?  and where do i get it?  and when  
> do you add the color in the process?

You can get the proper stuff at any cheese making supply source and you 
add it to the milk along with the cultures.

However, I think you would do your kids a bigger favor by explaining why 
cheese is colored and thereby expand their horizons instead of letting 
them dumb down your cheese.

As I pointed out in another posting, the best cheese and butter cows 
(Jersey and Guernsey) produce milk with lots of cream and lots of 
kerotin.  This produces butter and cheese with a characteristic yellow 
color that was the standard of excellence.

Unfortunately, Holsteins produce more milk per pound of feed and so 
their milk is forced upon the consumer because of greed.

In order to fool consumers into thinking they were getting Jersey or 
Guernsey butter and cheese, the milk was artificially colored. This 
became  the way people related to cheese.  If it aint yellow, it aint 
cheese.

So if you want yellow cheese use good milk or reduce your standards to 
those of a child and put coloring in it.

js

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