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Make Your Own Pizza!, Monday, Period 2
Raiden thumped a cheese-making kit identical to the ones the students would find at their workstations down in front of him and declared, "Let's make cheese.
"Making cheese is easier than you probably think, at least in its most basic form. To get different kinds of cheese you need different environments, and just the right kind of bacteria, and...honestly, a lot more time than most of us have. But you can knock out a mozzarella pretty quickly, and great news! That's just what we need for our pizzas! The only thing is, you're going to want to buy whole, pasteurized milk but not ultrapasteurized milk, because ultrapasteurization denatures some of the proteins we need to activate for our cheese." What? Raiden could use big words, if they were food words. "You can also, of course, use raw milk if you can get it, and some say it makes a better cheese--personally I say all cheese is good cheese--but I don't want any of you to die or have a very bad time of food poisoning, so I'm going to say use raw milk at your own risk. Let's get started."
After everyone had opened up their cheese-making kits and verified that they had everything they needed, Raiden proceeded to walk them through how to make mozzarella cheese step by step. When they were done, and hopefully had their beautiful mozzarella children in front of them, he said, "We're not quite ready to assemble our pizzas yet, so I thought we could eat our fresh cheese on a nice caprese salad. Obviously it'll be better in a few weeks when the fresh garden tomatoes are in, but it'll be good now, too! Here's how you assemble one..." And then, once he'd walked them through that, he said with a laugh, "And you probably don't need me to tell you how to eat one!" But if anyone did he'd be happy to help them figure it out. "Enjoy!"
"Making cheese is easier than you probably think, at least in its most basic form. To get different kinds of cheese you need different environments, and just the right kind of bacteria, and...honestly, a lot more time than most of us have. But you can knock out a mozzarella pretty quickly, and great news! That's just what we need for our pizzas! The only thing is, you're going to want to buy whole, pasteurized milk but not ultrapasteurized milk, because ultrapasteurization denatures some of the proteins we need to activate for our cheese." What? Raiden could use big words, if they were food words. "You can also, of course, use raw milk if you can get it, and some say it makes a better cheese--personally I say all cheese is good cheese--but I don't want any of you to die or have a very bad time of food poisoning, so I'm going to say use raw milk at your own risk. Let's get started."
After everyone had opened up their cheese-making kits and verified that they had everything they needed, Raiden proceeded to walk them through how to make mozzarella cheese step by step. When they were done, and hopefully had their beautiful mozzarella children in front of them, he said, "We're not quite ready to assemble our pizzas yet, so I thought we could eat our fresh cheese on a nice caprese salad. Obviously it'll be better in a few weeks when the fresh garden tomatoes are in, but it'll be good now, too! Here's how you assemble one..." And then, once he'd walked them through that, he said with a laugh, "And you probably don't need me to tell you how to eat one!" But if anyone did he'd be happy to help them figure it out. "Enjoy!"
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