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cheddaring

cheddaring

7.6
A step in making cheese when cheesemakers cut, stack, and turn curds to remove whey and make cheese firm
  • noun
  • /ˈʧɛdərɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : proceso de cheddaring
  • During cheddaring, curds are cut and stacked.

Examples

  • During cheddaring, the curds are repeatedly stacked and turned to remove excess whey.

  • The cheddaring process is essential for making quality cheddar cheese.

  • The cheddaring process is essential for creating the firm texture of traditional cheddar cheese.

  • Modern cheese factories use machines to automate the cheddaring step in production.

  • During the cheese-making process, the curds undergo cheddaring to enhance their texture and flavor.

  • The cheesemaker watched carefully as the curds began their cheddaring stage, ensuring they released enough whey.

  • As part of cheddaring, the curds were cut and stacked to achieve the desired consistency in the final cheese.

Surface Forms

cheddaring singular
cheddarings plural

Morphology

cheddaring = cheddar (opaque) = cheddar + ing

The form clearly contains cheddar + -ing, but the specialized cheese-making process is not directly predictable from the base word for an average learner.

Etymology

Cheddaring comes from the English village Cheddar, where the famous cheese and its special making method began. Cheese makers there cut, stack and turn curds to remove whey, and that method became known as cheddaring, which is why the word now means the step that makes cheddar cheese firm.