American cheese is technically made of cheese, but unlike the jokes, it’s mostly just processed cheese with sodium citrate, a common food additive to make things easier to work with in cooking called an emulsifier. Nile Red covers it extensively in his Nile Blue channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGNAxN5Z-o
It was whatever cheese was available mixed together with milk and with emulsifier to make it easier to process. The main purpose was food security. But it became a staple–Government cheese.
That… substance is cheese?
c/foundtheitalian
The technical terminology is “cheese themed edible product”
Proper American cheese, (not the cheap slices that are filled with preservatives), is basically solidified cheese sauce.
Mix cheeses like colby and cheddar with milk and sodium citrate and you get American cheese.
Can’t be technically labeled cheese any more just like how a milkshake is no longer technically ice cream since it’s been filled with milk.
Melts really well and is great for burgers. As long as you get the proper deli variety that is.
“technically I’ve cream”
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American cheese is technically made of cheese, but unlike the jokes, it’s mostly just processed cheese with sodium citrate, a common food additive to make things easier to work with in cooking called an emulsifier. Nile Red covers it extensively in his Nile Blue channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGNAxN5Z-o
I had a heart attack watching this. Even the original cheddar he used doesn’t look like actual cheese.
It was whatever cheese was available mixed together with milk and with emulsifier to make it easier to process. The main purpose was food security. But it became a staple–Government cheese.
I’m not putting Mimolette on a cheeseburger.
Yeahhh keep that weirdass emulsifier chemical shit out of my cheese. Plastic or not, it clearly does something weird to it