Ah, NileRed eating and 'cooking' in lab again...
American cheese cannot legally be called cheese. Cheese is legally defined as...
The fresh or matured product obtained by draining after coagulation of milk, cream, skimmed, or partly skimmed milk or a combination of some or all of these products and including any cheese that conforms to the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration for cheeses and related cheese products
...and American cheese contains ingredients added to that to encourage emulsification of the fat and water so that the cheese won't break when it melts, meaning the fat and the water won't separate and create the oily puddles that you get from melting cheese.
So American cheese is technically a processed cheese product.
...which NileRed explains and demonstrates in today's video.
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