Why are different types of cheeses cut into different shapes? i.e. provolone is always circular
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It depends on the size of the cheese wheel: If it’s a small one, you can buy it whole and get a round cheese. If it’s very big, it gets cut into slices or blocks, for example, and you can buy a small part of that big cheese wheel.
My personal observation is that size correlates with age and cheapness, so an expensive young cheese tends to be sold whole while cheap old cheese is sold in smaller parts.
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