Perhaps you’ve wondered as much mid-bite of Parmesan or Gruyère. We spoke to a cheese expert to find out what these mysterious crystals are.
Parmesan is a potent pantry power player. Is your Caesar salad falling flat? Probably needs more Parmesan. Want some extra umami in your stock? Throw in a Parmesan rind, as test kitchen editor Kendra Vaculin does in her Gnocchi-Leek Soup With Greens. If you’re a seasoned Parmesan fan, you know how a few salty curls can transform a dish. But you’ve likely also encountered a mysterious crunch every few bites. No, you’re not imagining things.
These tend to appear on the surface of cheese, where moisture can collect. In both cases the resulting crystals are pretty tiny—the one’s you’ll notice as crunchy range in size from about as tiny as a grain of sand to as large as a mustard seed. Do crystals indicate anything about the quality of cheese? A lot of people confuse the white powdery look of calcium lactate on the surface of cheese with mold—an easy mistake to make.
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