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A question relating to mozzarella cheese?

The local grocery store is having a "guess the weight of the cheese" contest. The cheese in question is one of those big cylindrical mozzarella cheeses (~ 3 feet long x 8 inches dia) with the ropes knotted around it (looks like cheese in bondage, you usually see them hanging in the Itallian food stores). I suspect these cheeses are made in a fairly standard size/weight, does anybody happen to know what that weight is? If not, does anybody know the density of mozzarella cheese? (All the technical treatises I consulted were sadly deficient in the area of chese density). Thanks.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    According to the paper below, a 7.5cm diameter by 30 cm long cylinder of mozzarella has mass 1.2 kg.

    3.75^2 * pi * 30 = 1325 cubic cm, or 0.905 grams per cc density.

    Your mission is to measure the cheese accurately--I don't know what standard size is.

    Now I'm hungry...

  • 1 decade ago

    Mozerella comes in 5, 6, 10, 12, and 20 lbs loaves usually but the wheight will be verry diferant if its heavy or light cheese (fat or low fat)

    Source(s): USAD Commodity requirments
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