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> If you stored milk in a stomach, it would coagulate very quickly. The substance would be solid: something you can dry! Aha. This could be a good way to store
by 13of40 10y ago
> If you stored milk in a stomach, it would coagulate very quickly. The substance would be solid: something you can dry! Aha. This could be a good way to store surplus milk.
You can make cheese without any sheep stomach involved, so it was probably more of an "Ah ha! Faster cheese!" sort of moment.
- dimal 10y agoEven though some cheeses are made without rennet, it seems more likely that the easier method with rennet would have been discovered first. It seems tricky to get the milk to coagulate into curds before turning sour unless you have rennet.