Pizza cheese- hard or soft?

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

What kind of cheese is "pizza cheese?"
Is it a soft cheese or a hard cheese?

Thanks to whoever knows the answer.

Gold Member Joined: Oct 06 2009 Posts: 1065

hard and shredded. usually a combination of mozzarella and chedder

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

Hmmm. The one I have isn't mozzarella or cheddar.

Posted: Wed, Nov 11 2009, 9:01 pm Post subject:

Ditto to previous poster, it's a combo of both. I used it tonight.
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Diamond Member Joined: Dec 28 2005 Posts: 4653

Interesting...I never knew the difference between the "shredded pizza cheese" and "shredded mozerella cheese" so I always just bought what was cheaper!

Posted: Thu, Nov 12 2009, 8:06 am Post subject: re: pizza cheese- hard or soft?

you can use whatever you want and see how it comes out. I have put a mixture of chedder, feta and parmesan on pizza. Almost any cheese will melt and taste good. Traditionally mozzarella or chedder are used, but any hard-ish cheese should work.

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

Maybe I'm wrong or google's wrong, but when I googled I read something about pizza cheese being different than mozzarella in the way that it's made, so that it will melt quickly.

I'm a bit confused about this whole thing, because I don't wait 6 hours for fleishigs after eating pizza, but if the cheese is mozzarella and cheddar than I should.

See what happens when you grow up waiting 6 hours for all cheese?

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48139

A soft cheese is yogurt or cottage cheese.

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

I see it's time for me to actually ask a Rav about this. Because I couldn't be more confused.

Anyway, thanks for the replies.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 01 2006 Posts: 48139

Soft cheese is prob. called one thing in halacha, and another thing by the cheese industry.

Posted: Thu, Nov 12 2009, 1:01 pm Post subject:

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Platinum Member Joined: May 15 2008 Posts: 5024

Parmesan as well as aged cheddar are hard cheeses.
Some Poskim hold that once it is cooked/melted it loses its "hardness", and therefore you do not need to wait before eating meat.

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Posted: Sun, Nov 15 2009, 6:38 pm Post subject:

mozzarella is considered a "semi-soft" cheese ... which means it's also semi hard ... anyways it's considered a hard cheese and is the usual kind one uses for pizza unless one is trying to conserve the cost ... as for waiting - if you wait 6 hrs you wait for pizza too (so I've heard)
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I'm getting hungry.
Nothing like homemade pizza.

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