Submitted by TapZxK t3_ygsikd in explainlikeimfive
So I was watching a video on YT on how the blue cheese specifically gorgonzola is made. Apparently Gorgonzola cheese is very ancient cheese, produces as early as 879 AD. I was looking at a modern process which already looks complicated. It requires special bacteria to be added to it for the signature blue / green mould to grow.
How on earth did humans learn to make this cheese back in the day?
Leftstone2 t1_iua8htv wrote
Well nobody knows because no historians wrote down the process when it was invented. That said, it was probably just invented on accident. Some cheese people were storing in a cave got accidentally inoculated and someone tried it and went "huh, this didn't make me sick and tastes pretty good. I'll add some to the rest of the cheese I'm storing too!".