Friday, March 20, 2009

Tips For Choosing The Sublime Cheese To Use In A Pizza

By Simon Smith

Cooking is a task that is both simple and enjoyable. To cook something edible and choice, you only need a few ingredients. Pizza is a fine example as you can make a delicious pizza with just a few ingredients. In fact, pizza has become so popular due to its austere yet ambrosial recipe. You can eat pizza at anytime you like. You can eat it in the after or in the evening. If you plan to have pizza as your breakfast, be sure to use scrambled eggs as toppings owing to the fact that they are really good. Imagine eating your own home baked pizza fresh from the oven!

Making pizza with stretchy cheese can be quite tricky because you need to find the right type of cheese to use. To enjoy tasty cheese on your pizza, you should use mozzarella. As this cheese melt in the oven, it will produce that "stringy" quality when you pulled or bite into it. Mozzarella is a decidedly favoured ingredient that is used on any pizzas with cheese. In any event, cheese with stretchy and stringy quality can make slicing your pizza completely hard. You should get a stainless steel knife to help you cut the pizza into perfect slices without making a mess.

Believe it or not, there are many variations of mozzarella available but most grocery stores only have the low fat and pasteurized version. To make excellent pizza, buffalo mozzarella and whole milk mozzarella are the perfect ingredients but finding them is another problem in itself. The most noticeable difference between a regular mozzarella and buffalo mozzarella is that the later is more extravagant, saltier, softer, creamier and of course more stringy. Buffalo mozzarella is also high in fat and protein but lower in cholesterol.

Mozzarella cheese is a sliceable curd cheese originating in Italy. It is normally made from cow's milk which is then processed through a stretcher where water solution is added. Traditional mozzarella is made from water buffalo. Since water buffalo milk is about three times more costly than cow's milk, buffalo mozzarella are by nature more expensive.

Fresh mozzarella is as a rule white and it is semi soft because of its high moisture content. It is best enjoyed in its fresh state which is either stored in water or whey. Since it is not aged like normal cheese, it is best eaten within hours of its making. The process of making mozzarella is called pasta filata where the curds are heated in water or whey until they form strings that are elastic in texture. The curds are then stretched and kneaded until smooth. Finally, they are formed into round balls to make fresh mozzarella cheese.

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