The history of pasteurizing milk and cheese
Most milk drunk and cheese eaten today is pasteurized. But what is pasteurisation? How was it discovered? Why is it called pasteurisation? And what impact does it have on milk and cheese?
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Images
Give the bottle-fed baby a chance for it’s life poster (Chicago Department of Health artist, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Louis Pasteur (public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Louis Pasteur portrait by Albert Edelfelt from 1885 (public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek portrait by Jan Verkolje (Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Lazzaro Spallanzani (Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Nicolas Appert by Edouard Foucaud (Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Robert Koch (Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Nathan Straus (public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
Franz von Soxhlet (public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)
00:00 Introduction
00:56 What is pasteurization?
02:13 Early pasteurization
04:42 Louis Pasteur
07:24 Milk pasteurization
12:42 Impact on cheese-making
17:04 Thanks for watching
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