Cheese, is it really just rotten milk?

Answer 1

Making Cheese at Home

The most important ingredient in cheese, is of course, the milk. Cheese can be made from just about any kind of milk including, cow, goat, sheep, mare and camels. It is the lucky home cheesemaker who even has access to fresh cow's milk, let alone the other exotic types. We will presume that the cheesemaker is limited to what can be purchased in the local supermarket. If fresh milk is available, consider yourself lucky and proceed in the same manner.

Starter is to cheese what yeast is to wine and beer. It is a living colony of microscopic organisms that give the cheese its characteristic flavor. One basic difference is that yeast is a fungus and cheese starter is usually a bacterium. However, that's not to say that fungi have no place in cheese. The blue stuff in blue cheese, for example, is a fungus.
http://schmidling.com/making.htm

So I guess you are right, but we hate to label it "Rotten" since we go about such a process to make it.

Answer 2

No it isn't rotten milk, enzymes are added to curdle the milk, that is very different from rotten. It is aged, and some cheeses do use fungi to obtain destinctive flavors and colors, i.e. blue cheese.

Answer 3

Rotten milk stinks and makes you want to vomit. Cheese is awesome. So to answer your question, no, because it is so much more.

Answer 4

Cheese is made out of milk with a high bacteria content.

Answer 5

cheese is really rotten milk.

Answer 6

yes but also enzymes and spices

Answer 7

nope,& i work with the stuff every day.mozzarella