Noun

Singular cheese

Plural cheese or cheeses

cheese (plural cheese or cheeses)

1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
3. (uncountable) (slang) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or clichéd, i.e. cheesy.
4. (uncountable) (slang) money
5. (countable) (slang) (baseball) A fastball.
6. (uncountable) (slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted. See w:Cheese (recreational drug).

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:cheese

Derived terms

• Abertam cheese
• American cheese
• apple-cheese
• Añejo cheese
• Asiago cheese
• basket cheese
• bleu cheese
• blue cheese
• Bonchester cheese
• bread and cheese
• brick cheese
• Brussels' cheese
• Buxton Blue cheese
• Cabrales cheese
• Caerphilly cheese
• Caithness cheese
• Camembert cheese
• cauliflower cheese
• chalk and cheese
• Chaumes cheese
• Cheddar cheese
• cheese and bread
• cheese-bail
• cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard
• cheese-borer
• cheese-bowl
• cheese-box
• cheese-bug
• cheeseburger
• cheese-cement
• cheesecake
• cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout
• cheese-cratch
• cheese-crate
• cheese curds
• cheese-cutter, cheesecutter
• cheesed, cheesed off
• cheese dip
• cheese dish
• cheese down
• cheese fingers
• cheese-grater
• cheese-fly
• cheese-hake, cheese-heck
• cheese-head
• cheese-headed
• cheese-hoop
• cheese-hopper, cheesehopper
• cheese-knife
• cheese ladder
• cheeseling

• cheese-maggot
• cheese-mite
• cheese-moat
• cheese-mold, cheese-mould
• cheesemonger
• cheese off
• cheese-pale
• cheese-parer
• cheese-paring, cheeseparing
• cheese-plate
• cheese powder
• cheese-press
• cheeser
• cheese rack/cheese-rack
• cheese-ramekin
• cheese-rennet
• cheese-room
• cheese-running
• cheesery
• the Cheeses
• cheese-scoop
• cheese skipper
• cheese slaw
• cheese slicer
• cheese spread
• cheese straw
• cheese-taster
• cheese-toaster
• cheese-tub
• cheese-vat
• cheese-water
• cheesewire
• cheesewood
• cheese-wring
• cheesine
• cheesing
• cheesy
• Cheez Whiz
• Cheshire cheese
• Chevington cheese
• chèvre cheese
• Chihuahua cheese
• cock cheese
• Colby cheese
• Colby-Jack cheese
• Coon cheese
• Cornish Yarg cheese
• cotija cheese
• cottage cheese
• Cougar Gold cheese
• cream cheese, cream-cheese
• Criollo cheese
• Cuba cheese
• curd cheese

• damson cheese, damson-cheese
• Danish Blue cheese
• Derby cheese
• Dorset Blue Vinney cheese
• Dorstone cheese
• Double Gloucester cheese
• Dovedale cheese
• Duberry cheese
• Dunlop cheese
• Dutch cheese
• Easy Cheese
• Edam cheese
• Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese
• Exmoor Blue cheese
• farmer cheese, farmer's cheese
• feta cheese
• Gloucester cheese
• goat cheese
• Gouda cheese
• Grana Padano cheese
• grated cheese
• green cheese
• Gruyère cheese
• hard cheese
• head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese
• hoop cheese
• Horeb cheese
• human cheese
• Huntsman cheese
• Idiazabal cheese
• Ilchester cheese
• jack cheese
• jalapeño cheese
• Jarlsberg cheese
• Lancashire cheese
• Leicester cheese
• Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese
• lemon cheese
• Liederkranz cheese
• Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese
• Lincolnshire Poacher cheese
• Lymeswold cheese
• macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese
• make butter and cheese of
• make cheeses
• Manchego cheese
• Maytag Blue cheese
• mousetrap cheese
• mozzarella cheese

• Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, Münster cheese
• Nabulsi cheese
• Neufchâtel cheese
• nipcheese
• Nökkelost cheese
• Oaxaca cheese
• Oka cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• pepper jack cheese
• pick-cheese
• pimento cheese
• Pinconning cheese
• pizza cheese
• pot cheese
• processed cheese
• Provel cheese
• rat cheese
• Red Leicester cheese
• Red Windsor cheese
• ricotta cheese
• romano cheese
• ruen cheese
• sage-cheese
• Sage Derby cheese
• Saint-André cheese
• Sakura cheese
• say cheese
• Shropshire Blue cheese
• Single Gloucester cheese
• slip cheese
• smoked cheese
• sour milk cheese
• Stilton cheese
• Stinking Bishop cheese
• store cheese
• string cheese
• Swaledale cheese
• Swiss cheese
• Testouri cheese
• Teviotdale cheese
• Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese
• tip-cheese
• toad-cheese, toad's cheese
• Tyrolean grey cheese
• Västerbotten cheese
• Valdeón cheese
• Waterloo cheese
• Wensleydale cheese
• White Stilton cheese
• Yunnan cheese
• Zamorano cheese

Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms.

Cheese consists of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. It is produced by coagulation of the milk protein casein. Typically, the milk is acidified and addition of the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form. Some cheeses have molds on the rind or throughout. Most cheeses melt at cooking temperature.

Hundreds of types of cheese are produced. Their styles, textures and flavors depend on the origin of the milk (including the animal's diet), whether they have been pasteurized, the butterfat content, the bacteria and mold, the processing, and aging. Herbs, spices, or wood smoke may be used as flavoring agents. The yellow to red color of many cheeses is from adding annatto.

For a few cheeses, the milk is curdled by adding acids such as vinegar or lemon juice. Most cheeses are acidified to a lesser degree by bacteria, which turn milk sugars into lactic acid, then the addition of rennet completes the curdling. Vegetarian alternatives to rennet are available; most are produced by fermentation of the fungus Mucor miehei, but others have been extracted from various species of the Cynara thistle family.

Cheese is valued for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is more compact and has a longer shelf life than milk. Cheesemakers near a dairy region may benefit from fresher, lower-priced milk, and lower shipping costs. The long storage life of some cheese, especially if it is encased in a protective rind, allows selling when markets are favorable.

Quotes concerning Cheese.

• Like chalk and cheese.
  • An expression meaning completely different.

• A meal without cheese is like a beautiful woman who lacks an eye.
  • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

• A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.
  • Stephen King, Firestarter

• How can you govern a country where there are 246 different types of cheese?
  • (attributed to Charles de Gaulle)

• Moe, Larry, cheese!
  • Curly Joe, The Three Stooges

• I eat swiss cheese from the inside out. ~ Steven Wright

• Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
  • G. K. Chesterton

• Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese -- toasted, mostly.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

• There's always free cheese in a mousetrap.

• To cut the cheese
  • a euphemism for flatulence.

• It ain't easy being cheesy.
  • Chubby Cheese

• Life is like a block of cheese, hard and smelly
  • Anonymous

• [Cheese can] restore an old love and ... ripen a young one.
  • Casanova, Histoire de ma vie.

• The moon is made of a green cheese.
  • John Heywood, Proverbs.

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Fri Feb 12 23:26:55 2010