Wisconsin’s Master Cheesemaker share his love of cheese

MADISON, Wis.–– The Badger State is dwelling to 1,200 licensed cheesemakers, however few have mastered the artwork of creating cheese fairly like Gary Grossen.

At 71, Gary Grossen lives and breathes cheese. He has the PhD to show it.

Grossen is certainly one of lower than 80 who holds the title of Wisconsin Grasp Cheesemaker. 

Making cheese isn’t any simple process. There’s a science and artwork to cheesemaking that requires ability and a number of laborious work. 

“You do not stand in a single spot for too lengthy,” Grossen mentioned.

Grossen was born and raised within the cheese enterprise. 

“I lived proper above the cheese manufacturing facility and from an early age you had been doing a number of work,” he mentioned.

On the Middle for Analysis on the College of Wisconsin-Madison, Grossen works with a workforce of cheesemakers.

Whether or not he’s making cheese, serving to firms with product growth, or doing analysis, so long as it includes cheese, Grossen is blissful. 

But, what he loves most is instructing the artwork of cheesemaking to college students. The method of cheesemaking is a miracle,” he mentioned. 

“I’ve at all times purchased meals on school pupil price range the place it is positively like the most affordable cheese you will get to. Now, I am extra keen to purchase much less of one thing higher as a result of now I do know the work that goes into it,” mentioned Alison Sadler.

If you love making cheese as a lot as this Wisconsin Grasp Cheesemaker does, work by no means looks like work. 

Grossen has crafted greater than 20 cheeses and gained extra nationwide and worldwide awards than he can rely. Successful second within the World competitors to the Netherlands for his Gouda in 2012 is certainly one of his favourite accomplishments.