Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, experiment finds

Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, experiment finds

Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, culinary experts found.

An experiment conducted by Käsehaus K3 and Sound Arts HKB students from the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland called Cheese in Surround Sound has found that exposing aging cheese to music enhances its flavor.

The study was conducted to investigate how flavor-giving microorganisms might react to different types of sound waves.

The Experiment:

9 identical 22-pound wheels of Emmental cheese were placed in individual wooden crates.

They were then exposed to 5 different genres of music and 3 different sine-wave frequencies (high, mean, low) for 24 hours a day over the course of 6 months.

One wheel was the designated control cheese that didn’t get serenaded by music.

That cheese is musicy

The track list:

Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’

Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’

A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Jazz (We’ve Got)’

There was even a techno Emmental that was subjected to Vril’s 2011 track ‘UV.’

The results:

After the 6-month maturing process, the wheels were subjected to tests by food technologists from the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

They concluded that “cheeses exposed to music had a generally mild flavor compared to the control test sample”.

They also find the Emmental wheel exposed to A Tribe Called Quest’s hip hop track had a “a discernibly stronger smell and stronger, fruitier taste than the other test samples”.

The wheels were then presented to a panel of highly qualified culinary jurors in a blind taste test and guess what? They all noticeably favored the hip hop Emmental flavor.

The panel also found that the wheels exposed to low frequencies were sweeter than the rest.

Swiss celebrity chef Benjamin Luzuy expressed his delight with the experiment: “For chefs like me, these results are fascinating. This opens up new avenues for us in terms of how we can work creatively with food in the future”.

Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, finds Cheese in Surround Sound experiment.

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