Why Do Some Cheeses Have Holes?
- Lynn
- Jul 14, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2023
Although you may have been told as a kid that the holes in cheese come from a tiny mice chewing through it, the holes actually come from carbon dioxide that is produced during the cheesemaking process. Swiss, Emmental, and other alpine-style cheeses are made with Propionibacterium freundenreichii bacteria, which produces carbon dioxide, forming small air pockets as the cheese hardens.

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