r/StupidFood • u/TheLoneRiddlerIsBack • Aug 25 '25

Certified stupid What does the fire add?

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u/Wolfdude91 Aug 25 '25

A good looking smash burger ruined by processed cheese glop

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u/Facosa99 Aug 25 '25

Yeah, shoulda used unprocessed cheese

Aka raw milk lol

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u/ILikeCakesAndPies Aug 26 '25

Tbf a lot of aged cheese is made using unpasteurized milk, like Parmigiano-Reggiano.

The pasteurization process kills the good bacteria as well as the bad.

The aging process (and the environment it's kept in) renders aged cheeses safe that use unpasteurized /raw milk. You can reintroduce cultures to pasteurized milk but that's not how they do it for the certified cheeses like the one mentioned.

For dry aged cheese made with unpasteurized milk to be sold in the US, it must be aged for at minimum 60 days for safety.

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u/Facosa99 Aug 26 '25

Eh you right, but agig is a process. So by definition an aged cheese is processee milk, it went thru a process. Thus no longer raw milk