American cheese is technically made of cheese, but unlike the jokes, it’s mostly just processed cheese with sodium citrate, a common food additive to make things easier to work with in cooking called an emulsifier. Nile Red covers it extensively in his Nile Blue channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGNAxN5Z-o
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username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
That… substance is cheese?
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I had a heart attack watching this. Even the original cheddar he used doesn’t look like actual cheese.
insanemantis@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeahhh keep that weirdass emulsifier chemical shit out of my cheese. Plastic or not, it clearly does something weird to it
myyass@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It was whatever cheese was available mixed together with milk and with emulsifier to make it easier to process. The main purpose was food security. But it became a staple–Government cheese.
I’m not putting Mimolette on a cheeseburger.
Bubs@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Proper American cheese, (not the cheap slices that are filled with preservatives), is basically solidified cheese sauce.
Mix cheeses like colby and cheddar with milk and sodium citrate and you get American cheese.
Can’t be technically labeled cheese any more just like how a milkshake is no longer technically I’ve cream since it’s been filled with milk.
Melts really well and is great for burgers. As long as you get the proper deli variety that is.
M137@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
“technically I’ve cream”
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slothrop@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Pla-stic Notes
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The technical terminology is “cheese themed edible product”