Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hcazz 1218 days ago
It's just cornstarch. Same reason you should never use pre-shredded cheese on a pizza, the cornstarch burns faster than the cheese does.

Because it's soluble in water, you can (and I have) washed pre-shredded cheese in a colander and dried it on a kitchen towel when it was all I had on hand, and it turned out fine.
1 comments
hammock 1218 days ago
>It's just cornstarch.

That is not true, and TFA refers specifically to metal oxide nanoparticles that are used as anti-caking agents

link
rcme 1218 days ago
Shredded cheese usually does use some form of starch, however. E.g. Great Value Shredded Cheese uses potato and tapioca starch: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Shredded-Mild-Cheddar...
link
maxerickson 1218 days ago
It's plenty true that cornstarch and/or cellulose make packaged shredded cheese melt weird.

Or is your argument that metal oxide nanoparticles are the only anti-caking agents that are used?

link