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A cheese press at the Hadley Farm Museum in Hadley, Massachusetts

A cheese press is a device for pressing whey from curds when making cheese. Pressing influences the cheese's hardness and texture and will also determine the shape of the block or wheel of cheese.[1]

References

  1. ^ Catherine Donnelly, ed. (2016), "Press", The Oxford Companion to Cheese, Oxford University Press, pp. 588–589, ISBN 9780199330881