Cooking with Wisconsin Cheese

A few hints make cooking with Wisconsin cheese an easy and tasty success:

• Use low heat, just enough to melt the cheese and blend it with other ingredients. High heat makes natural cheese tough and stringy.

• Avoid long cooking, which also makes cheese tough and stringy; cook just enough to melt.

• To promote even melting, slice, shred, grate, cube or dice cheese before adding as an ingredient.

• Broil foods topped with cheese, such as open-face sandwiches, pizza and vegetables, four to six inches from heat.

• Keep oven temperature between 325° F and 375° F. For longer baking, cover cheese with bread crumbs to protect and prevent toughening.

• To microwave cheese, use 30 percent (medium-low) to 70 percent (medium-high) power.

• We sell cheese by weight. Use these equivalents for handy conversion:

• 4 ounces semi-soft cheese to firm cheese = 1 cup
  
• 4 ounces Blue or Feta = 1 cup crumbled
  
• 3 ounces hard cheese = 1 cup grated