How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. It’s got a lot of other resarch projects too, but it also keeps a backup of the Swiss cheese bacterial cultures… just in käse. ■ Agroscope: https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home.html
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@TomScottGo
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
This video has a correction: the second interviewee is Noam Shani. I accidentally copied-and-pasted the wrong name, and it somehow got through all the video checks. Apologies to Dr. Shani!
@CausticWax
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Grommet, I know what we're going to do today, lad!
@MCInferno
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
EE
@cheydinal5401
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
How much sawdust can you put into cheese until people notice?
@flyingproofficial
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
The last comment was a month ago
@illiasukonnik9966
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Why on earth they have half of a laptop standing on a table?
@lacycygan5365
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
This is fantastic
@wta1518
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
So much effort for such a terrible cheese.
@Veptis
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
You can legally restrict some DNA sequence?
Couldn't this be synthesized or bred for manually??
@Phlegethon
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
imagine if bacteria knew they're just sitting in a can somewhere to be used by people, imagine if people are like that too
@KingArthurWs
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
As a Swiss-American, I'm just overwhelmed with pride in my heritage right now.
@christophweber3299
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
I remember thinking "where are the holes?" thanks for clarifying that✌️😂
Never thought i get an answer for that 😁
@CreepersNeedHugs
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Why do we even need holes in the Swiss cheese???? I’m just getting less cheese per cheese
@boscoalbertbaracus1362
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
and this is another example of how we're ruining things by making them more sterile and "pure" instead of natural and good, go back to the old ways, repent, and make things the natural, wholesome way again.
@arduous222
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
"just in käse" lmao
@SkyBlue-cv8qb
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
i really expected the answer to be "Global Warming"
@viridiantheforest1037
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
I heard about company that makes hotdogs with a similar problem. They expanded and moved into bigger fancier new building and noticed a reduction in quality. Turned out that while they in the old building they had to ship the meat from one place to another. This warmed it up just a little bit, but after they moved they did not have to do that anymore. They had to a build special climate controlled room to replicate this step in the process.
@nobleherring3059
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
In awe of the advanced cheese technology on display here.
Wallace's dream.
@adaritter9597
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Ok, but why DON'T all the other cheeses have holes? Like it's not just swiss cheese that used to be developed in less sterile conditions.
@ger128
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Wow! They x-ray cheese to look at the holes inside!
@RMJ1984
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
i remember watching these videos when he still did videos. Those were good times, the best of times. But as we know all good must eventually stop.
@rogerstalder7184
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
As someone from Swiss. Can you please stop calling it Swiss sheese? Its like when we would call a Chrysler American Car, or a Tarantino Movie an American Movie. It is litterly the ONLY ONE with holes in it, out of 460 diffrent chees we have. So please Americans. learn to specify stuff…
@tomspeed3354
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
there is a great blackmarket for cheese bacteria
@RedddShirt
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
if only the bacteria knew about the lovecraftian deities keeping their lineage alive…
@braxtondavis393
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
If only America was this homogenous and peaceful
@Lanks34
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
im high af
@karne3156
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
the real question is. are they increase the price or not
@mairaineplayzgames2205
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
but…the holes off swiss cheese are the best! O_O
@CarlosGutierrez-ef2pd
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Absolute waste of time check your belly button
@thizAHandle
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
5:29 That's the place you get your answer
@againstalladsgames
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Simply fascinating. Swiss is my favorite!
@QuinnMallory-od1hw
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Well the holes are losing the customer product, maybe getting rid of them was the right idea.
@Jomama_01
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
How can you make money doing middle school science experiments
@Cainb23
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
imagine getting pretentious and arrogant about the worst most nasty type of cheese… that's usually a british type thing to do, guess the swiss got them beat in this dept.
@roninbadger7750
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
My Favorite Swiss Cheese is cheese slices.
@StevenScott_studio53
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Cool the x-ray my cheese
@guitarfreakizoid
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
The "Something Un-Holey" thumbnail is the most topical reference this year 🤣
@SirPrizeMF
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Nothing about the Swiss is real
@Titanscreaming
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
AHAHA Un-holy that's clever!
@matthewsteele8448
October 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm
Swiss is my least favorite mainstream cheese.