Mystery #1Tier 1microbes and cheese
How do invisible microbes turn plain milk into hundreds of kinds of cheese?
Pour yourself a glass of milk and it is smooth, white and mild. Yet the same milk can become crumbly cheddar, blue-veined stilton or stretchy mozzarella. Nobody pours those hundreds of flavours in from a bottle. So what turns one plain liquid into so many different cheeses?
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