It’s already been said that music helps plants to grow faster and I have found that a Swiss study suggests that you can improve cheese by playing music, especially hip hop!
Researchers played nonstop loops of Led Zeppelin, A Tribe Called Quest and Mozart to cheese wheels to find out how sound waves impacted flavor. So how did they do this? Well, researchers from the Bern University of Arts placed nine 22-pound wheels of emmental cheese in individual wooden crates in cheese cellar. Then, for the next six months each cheese was exposed to 24-hour loops of each song using a mini-transducer, which directed the sound waves directly into the cheese wheels.
Songs included:
The “classical” cheese: Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
The “rock” cheese: Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.”
The “ambient” cheese: Yello’s “Monolith,”
The “hip-hop: cheese: A Tribe Called Quest’s “Jazz (We’ve Got)”
The “techno” cheese: Vril’s “UV.”
A control cheese : silence & the other cheeses were exposed to high, medium and low frequency tones.
They say that the creation of good cheese involves “a complex dance between milk and bacteria. Playing the right tune while this dance unfolds changes the final product’s taste, a study shows. that hip-hop, for example, gave the cheese an especially funky flavor, while cheese that rocked out to Led Zeppelin or relaxed with Mozart had milder zests.”
A Tribe Called Quest’s cheese was “remarkably fruity, both in smell and taste, and significantly different from the other samples.”
They are saying that they can see marketing cheeses based on the music they matured too. Already, people have called requesting cheese that has listened to the blues, Balkan music and AC/DC. I wonder what the AC/DC cheese would taste like???
