CHEESEMAKER

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Cooks milk and specified ingredients to make cheese, according to formula: Pasteurizes and separates milk to obtain prescribed butterfat content. Turns valves to fill vat with milk and heat milk to specified temperature. Dumps measured amounts of dye and starter into milk. Starts agitator to mix ingredients. Tests sample of milk for acidity and allows agitator to mix ingredients until specified level of acidity is reached. Dumps and mixes measured amount of rennet into milk. Stops agitator to allow milk to coagulate into curd. Pulls curd knives through curd or separates curd with hand scoop to release whey. Observes thermometer, adjusts steam valve, and starts agitator to stir and cook curd at prescribed temperature for specified time. Squeezes and stretches sample of curd with fingers and extends cooking time to achieve desired firmness or texture. Gives directions to CHEESEMAKER HELPER (dairy products) or other workers to make curd, drain whey from curd, add ingredients, such as seasonings, or mold, pack, cut, pile, mill, dump, and press curd into specified shapes. Directs other workers who immerse cheese in brine or roll cheese in dry salt, pierce or smear cheese with cultured wash to develop mold growth, and place or turn cheese blocks on shelves to cure cheese. Tastes, smells, feels, and observes sample plug of cheese for quality. Records amounts of ingredients used, test results, and time cycles. Makes variations in time cycles and ingredients used for succeeding batches. Dumps specified culture into milk or whey in pasteurizer to make bulk starter. May be required to hold state cheesemaker's license. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: CHEESEMAKER

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Westby, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Cheesemaker showing Saugstad how cheesecloth is applied at the cooperative creamery. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Usage Frequency: CHEESEMAKER

"CHEESEMAKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "CHEESEMAKER" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: CHEESEMAKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-h-k-m-r-s"
	-3 letters: cashmere, machrees, marchese.
	-4 letters: amerces, hackees, hackers, hakeems, hareems, machree, marches, mesarch, racemes, reaches, remakes, schemer, schmear, schmeer, smacker.
	-5 letters: ackees, ameers, amerce, arches, chares, charks, charms, chaser, cheeks, cheers, cheese, crakes, creaks, creams, crease, creeks, creese, creesh, cremes, emcees, emeers, eschar, haceks, hackee, hacker, haeres, hakeem, hareem, harems, hearse, hermae, kasher, kermes.
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Alternative Orthography: CHEESEMAKER

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 48 45 45 53 45 4D 41 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. .... . . ... . -- .- -.- . .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001000 01000101 01000101 01010011 01000101 01001101 01000001 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#69 &#69 &#83 &#69 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0045 0045 0053 0045 004D 0041 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	91.67%	11	106,044
Noun (proper)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

CHEESEMAKER

Specialty Definition: CHEESEMAKER

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Crosswords: CHEESEMAKER