How is bacterial/microbial fermentation achieved?

Question

Let's say for cheese making. Can some one describe it in more detail?

Answer 1

Here is a similar question and answer from Yahoo answers.

How do you explain the process of fermentation on cheese in simple terms?

2 years ago

March 13, 2006



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all of these fermentation questions work the same way, put a little microbe in the food, it eats some and releases a product. For cheese add Lactobacillus or Streptoccus to Milk wait a while and it'll produce Lactic Acid. Eventually you get cheese. For Swiss cheese you start with Lactic acid and add Propionibacterium freudenreichii. You end up with Propionic acid and carbon dioxide...

Oh, all fermentation starts w/ glycolysis, goes to Pyruvic acid and then to whatever the fermentation end-product is depending on which little bugger was doing the deed