Probably by the time the cheese has oozed out the breading has solidified.
No, because I don’t fuck around with my pizza rolls.
I buy mozzarella sticks frozen and fry them at home, and I can attest that there’s a very fine line between “cold in the center” and “nothing in the center.” It’s less than a 30-second window of perfection.
I don’t mind eating the oozed cheese separately, but McD’s obviously isn’t serving that.
Frozen burritos in the microwave. Stuffed pizza. Chicken Kiev. Same deal. The filling, if allowed to get too hot, will breach the breading/batter/wrap at the point of least resistance and ooze out.
I’ve had this happen once in a while with cheesesticks long before the Donalds ever started selling them. Usually it means there was a hole or something in the outer layer and the insides oozed out, forming a blob of melted cheese in the container/on the dish. People trying to get over on the internet are obv just showing the shell and not the blobby cheese left over.
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I’ve had this happen once in a while with cheesesticks long before the Donalds ever started selling them. Usually it means there was a hole or something in the outer layer and the insides oozed out, forming a blob of melted cheese in the container/on the dish. People trying to get over on the internet are obv just showing the shell and not the blobby cheese left over.
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In my experience, no. The cheese just vanishes. The “why” is that they’re almost certainly using “cheese food” which is legally limited in the US to be made of up to 49% vegetable oil, so it just slips out and dissolves into the fryer oil. If they used actual cheese, there wouldn’t be a problem, other than costing more than people would be willing to pay at a fast food place.
Huh. I just looked at their website and the ingredients list says: Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Culture, Salt, Enzymes)
So it’s not cheese food, but nonetheless it’s possible to overfry the things and make cheese, which is primarily solid fat with some protein dissolve into hot liquid fat.
I ordered them once. Once. They were not hollow at all, but the cheese filling wasn’t anything to write home about. No gooey-ness, no stretchiness, no flavor. Just a sort of dry white paste. The best part was the marinara that came with them.
At Jack in the Box, I saw cheesesticks overcook to the point that all the cheese leaked out and they were just a hollow shell. That was in cases of excessive overcooking, though (1-2 minutes more than the ideal cooking time) where the fry cook just plain forgot to set a timer or got distracted doing something else. It was definitely real cheese in there, though.
I also saw sticks arrive at the restaurant hollow due to a factory error, which might also account for some of the problems McDonald’s is having.
Venezuelan Beaver Cheese sticks?
I’m picturing Qadgop running around with a black eye mask muttering “robble robble.”