Course Content (Syllabus)
1.Introduction to cheese making: historical facts, cheese production and consumption, diversity of cheese varieties and classification, legislation
2.Ingredients for cheese making: milk properties and pretreatment, enzymes
3.Ingredients for cheese making: starter culture, salt, calcium cloride, colourands
4.The basic step for cheese making: coagulation of milk, cutting or breaking the curd, cooking and holding the curds, draining the whey, knitting the curds
5.The basic step for cheese making: pressing the curds, salting the curds, special apliccations
6.Outline of cheese manufacture: cheeses ripened in brine, acid- acid/rennet-curd cheeses, Hard cheeses, semi-hard cheeses
7.Outline of cheese manufacture: pasta-filata cheeses, cheeses made from whey, non-Greek cheeses, blue and surface mould cheeses, pasteurised processed cheeses, low fat cheeses
8.Cheese problems/defects: blowing, cracks, softening, roping, crystal formation, sensory defects
9.Cheese ripening: biochemical changes, metabolism of fatty acids/lactose/lactic acid/citric acid, proteolysis and catabolism of amino acids, lipolysis, acceleration of cheese ripening,
10.Fermented milk products: yogurt-buttermilk: manufacturing, starter cultures and nutritional aspects
11.Fermented milk products: kefir-acidified milk drinks: manufacturing, starter cultures and nutritional aspects
12.Butter-cream products: manufacture, structure/texture
13.Ice cream: ingredients, structure/texture, manufacture, mix calculations for ice cream