Cheese pizza

There are numerous examples where food extensional properties are relevant from the product quality perspective - some obvious examples include the extensibility of doughs, stretching of Mozzarella or Pizza cheese melts, extrusion-cooking of cereals, flow of honey and treacle. Overall, dough products have received the most attention. The importance of extensional viscosity in food processing has been reviewed by Escher (44 and references therein). 

Kindstedt, P.S. 1993. Mozzarella and pizza cheese. Factors affecting the functional characteristics of unmelted and melted Mozzarella cheese. In Cheese Chemistry, Physics and Microbiology, Vol. 2, Major Cheese Groups, 2nd edn (P.F. Fox, ed.), pp. 337-362, Chapman and Hall, London. 

Kindstedt, P.S., Guo, M.R., 1997. Recent developments in the science and technology of pizza cheese. Aust. J. Dairy Technol. 52, 41-43. 

Quarne, E.L., Larson, W.A., Olson, N.F. 1968. Recovery of milk solids in direct acidification and traditional procedures of manufacturing Pizza cheese. J. Dairy Sci. 51, 527-530. 

Of the thirty pounds per person per year of cheese consumed in the United States, a good deal of it is in the form of melted cheese found atop our new national food pizza. Pizza has its own yellow-pages heading in most phone directories, a privilege not accorded to apples, artichokes, or spinach. And although the crust and the sauce may be important to good pizza, it must be acknowledged that without the cheese, pizza would just be an open-faced tomato sauce sandwich. The quality and proper properties of pizza cheese is a topic that preoccupies pizza entrepreneurs. 

What is the most important property of a good pizza cheese Taste, of course. But also the ability to melt smoothly, uniformly, and without separating back into curds and whey—which is why pizza is not topped with an unripened cheese like cottage cheese, or a hard cheese like parmesan, but a semisoft cheese mozzarella. 

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