Just Cheesy: The Podcast Summer Series No Whey

Cheesy and Fondue go out of their "whey" to talk about cheese byproduct. We learn about edible packaging, spa treatments, road brine, and more. And of course we tell a very cheesy joke!

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Why is cheddar the most dangerous of all the cheeses? Because it is very sharp!

 

Show Notes 

https://thecounter.org/whey-disposal-reuse-cheese-dairy-byproduct/amp/

https://www.susannekaufmann.com/collections/key-ingredient-whey

https://www.foodandwine.com/grains/wheat/we-tried-3-edible-cutlery-brands-heres-what-we-found?

https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/02/brine-the-salty-flavor-of-road-safety.html

https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/experiences/whey-bath-alpine-wellness-in-the-great-outdoors/?

https://hypebeast.com/2025/6/self-packing-cheese-biodegradable-packaging-whey-waste-decomposes-ogilvy-colombia-nestle

https://www.packagingdive.com/news/packaging-innovations-nestle-sig-proampac-scotts-miraclegro/748705/

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14287

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/11/9/1056?

https://flavorfulz.com/about/

Episode Transcript

(00:02):
Just Cheesy, the podcastpresented by Just Cheesy Productions.
I'm your host with the most fondue.
I'm Cheesy.
Welcome back to Cheesy Bites,our summer series where we're going
out of our whey to talk aboutcheese waste.
No whey.
We're talking about ediblepackaging, spa treatments, road brine,

(00:23):
and more.
whey cool.
And of course, there's no wheyyou would miss our very cheesy joke.
No whey.
Make whey for Cheesy Bites episode.
No whey.
We've talked about whey.
whey to go.
No whey are you gonna do thisthe whole episode?
No whey.
Okay.
Yes whey.
We talked about whey making mywhey. We talked about whey in episode

(00:46):
132. That's the whey it iscalled American whey. We talked about
it in episode 92 in Cheese Powered.
We were whey ahead of our time.
And what we talked about inthose episodes was whey.
No whey.
whey is a liquid that's leftover after milk is curdled and strained
during the cheese making process.
whey.
According to an article inthecounter.org, they say pound for

(01:07):
pound, dairies produce muchmore whey than they do anything else.
One pound of cheese generatesnine pounds of whey.
No whey.
And because so much isgenerated, dairies had to find a
whey to get rid of the waste.whey to go, they say. Small scale
cheesemakers typically disposeof it however they can by spreading
it on fields or feeding it toanimals. And it can act as a fertilizer.

(01:29):
But too much can actuallypollute waterwheys, killing fish
and other aquatic creatures.And because of that, farmers and
dairy and people around theworld are trying to find a whey.
See what I did there? A wheyto use all of that excess whey, they
say here. Samuel Alcane, anassistant professor of dairy fermentation
at Cornell University, he puton his brewing hat and actually created

(01:52):
a beer made entirely from whey.
whey cool.
He said it paired well withfruit and ginger.
Wow.
According to myswitzerland.comthere's another use for whey.
There is.
We're talking a bath.
A bath.
That's right. According tomyswitzerland.com, spa goers can
soak in warm tubs of whey forsoft, glowing skin. And the lactic

(02:12):
acid in the ouai exfoliatesyour skin. And apparently it's been
used in wellness retreatssince the 16th century.
whey ahead of its time.
We even found online thatthere's a lot of skincare products
made from whey onsuzannecaufman.com, there's alkali
salts, herbal whey, bath, bodybutter for the senses.
No whey.
Clinique is using whey tosmooth out your skin and plump it

(02:36):
up. They say.
Whoa.
There's even a cosmeticcompany from Munich called whey Organic
Cosmetics. They have lip balm,face plumper, and they even have
a line of soaps.
whey to go.

(03:38):
whey Organic Cosmetics is nota sponsor, but if they were, their
ad would go right here. Ithink we've talked about this one
before, but According toAdirondack Almanac.com Ouai is being
used as road salt in thewinter. They're using this in places
like Madison, Wisconsin andCalgary, Alberta.
No whey.
I guess whey isn't the onlybyproduct used. They use beet juice

(04:00):
and pickled brine as well.
No whey.
We're putting brine on theroad. And apparently in India, they're
converting whey into bioethanol.
No whey.
Maybe you don't want to fuelyour car with whey, but you want
to eat a piece of cheesethat's packaged in cheese.
What?
Well, now you can.
No whey.
According to hypebeast.com,nestle and Ogilvy Columbia have created
what they're calling selfpacking cheese. They're unveiling

(04:23):
a biodegradable cheese wrappermade from whey. This film material
has properties that aresimilar to the conventional plastics,
but it biodegrades in only 300days. That made me wonder. Can you
eat it?
No whey.
Not this one. But according toMDPI.com, there's an abstract that
talks about the creation ofedible films and coatings.

(04:46):
whey cool.
There are wraps that arecolorless, odorless, and completely
biodegradable.
They're leading the whey.
They can carry antioxidants,probiotics, and even UV protection.
whey ahead of its time.
Topic near and dear to myheart. Edible utensils. Yeah, that's
right. They exist.
No whey.
There's a study on AR XIV thatshowed how whey protein can form

(05:06):
the base of biodegradable andpotentially edible cutlery. FoodandWine.com
has a list of a couple of companies.
Okay.
Utensils made of things likerice, millet and wheat flours.
No whey.
Flavorfuls has a sample packof 21 different flavors of edible
spoons.
whey to go.
This is $21, and these flavorsare just amazing. They've got wasabi.
They have plain chocolate,potato, salted caramel, apple, basil,

(05:31):
mint chocolate, Italian herb,gingerbread, pretzel sea salt, you
name it. There are flavors forthese awesome spoons.
Have it your whey.
Incredibleeats.com doesn'tonly have spoons. They have edible
straws.
No whey.
These bad boys come inchocolate and vanilla. And I think
this would be awesome with a milkshake.
I'm ready for a joke fondue.

(05:51):
Okay. What did curd say toweigh in therapy?
No whey to know.
This relationship is strained.Time to separate. Get it?
No whey.
You know like how you separatecurd from whey to make cheese?
whey over the top.
Oh, it was whey better than expected.
No whey.
And a little bit cheesy. Canyou go out of your whey to help us

(06:17):
out?
Yeah.
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This is the whey.
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Find a whey to say cheesy, everybody.