Need a cheese wheel not to be missed? Try to play hip-hop

If you want healthy plants, some people say you should talk to them. If you want to make a delicious cheese, try playing hip-hop music.

This is what emerges from a recent experiment conducted by Swiss researchers who sought to determine how sound waves could affect the microorganisms that give cheese its flavor.

The Cheese in Surround Sound experiment began last fall with nine 22-pound Emmental wheels in nine wooden crates. This badortment of cheeses was played with different types of sound waves and songs, including Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and "Jazz (we have)" in hip-hop legends. A Tribe Called Quest. There was also a cheese wheel control that received no music.

The cheese was exposed to music 24 hours a day for six months thanks to a transmitter that focused the sound waves into the cheese mills. When making the cheese, the milk came from the same farmers and was processed in the same tank so that the grindstones were as identical as possible.

Once the cheese was refined, it was badyzed by food professionals, who concluded that the grindstones exposed to music had a milder taste than the control cheese. The group also determined that the cheese that had been played hip-hop had "a distinctly stronger smell and a more fruity and fruity taste than the other samples tested," according to a summary of the results of the experiment.

A panel of Swiss chefs, politicians and artists also sampled cheeses from each wheel during a blind tasting test and agreed that cheeses played in hip Shop or low frequencies were softer than others.

"I love its flavor and hip-hop cheese was so my favorite cheese … rock'n'roll and techno, there was not such a big difference", has said Beat Wampfler, a longtime cheese enthusiast who has worked with researchers at the Bern University of the Arts is responsible for creating the experience, said Lulu Garcia-Navarro of NPR.

The next goal: to create another study with only the silent transmission of hip-hop cheese mills against other cheeses control. Wampfler said the potential benefits could go far beyond the flavor.

"The cheese can also serve as a transmitter between different people who like hip-hop or folklore or rock'n'roll," said Wampfler. "It can also help to bring society closer."

There is no report yet on the impact of NPR's sound on cheese taste.

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