Cheesemaker
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A cheesemaker is a person who cooks milk and specified ingredients to make cheese.
To make cheese, a cheesemaker:
- Pulls curd knives through curd or separates curd with hand scoop to release whey.
- Observes thermometer, adjusts steam valve, and starts agitator to stir and cook curd at prescribed temperature for specified time.
- Squeezes and stretches sample of curd with fingers and extends cooking time to achieve desired firmness or texture.
- Gives directions to Cheesemaker Helper or other workers to make curd, drain whey from curd, add ingredients, such as seasonings, or mold, pack, cut, pile, mill, dump, and press curd into specified shapes.
- Directs other workers who immerse cheese in brine or roll cheese in dry salt, pierce or smear cheese with cultured wash to develop mold growth, and place or turn cheese blocks on shelves to cure cheese.
- Tastes, smells, feels, and observes sample plug of the cheese
