Cheese press
{{short description|Culinary device}}
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A cheese press is a device for pressing whey from curds when making cheese. Pressing influences the cheese's hardness and texture and will also determine the shape of the block or wheel of cheese.
Some sources state that Hazel Irwin, who received a patent for a cheese press in 1808,{{Cite web |url=https://watermark.silverchair.com/002219500551514.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAsowggLGBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK3MIICswIBADCCAqwGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMRJq_WVoMOLxCLS-5AgEQgIICfcDnyz8GVO2xZ3SBJZQETlEDoyWCwcAocohzYXYNvLb-r4ob_5RZpgaXJBX6mZSfHCowRMmclIa1UqiQD0nLMweMUQlT3BNnIOHMZVBl_-4OiUZQmLjSCnZ6tFcpykhOhyOOI2xexIgJuIvCE8v7d2QylON6ZVYD5jnnZf-T9Y_5HhDD-BxGj8wnrJMcxHyiAh4Xvk2ebrc00cYoQU9FJGgx0UF1rB_ZcDUyElODLmo0CWY0TtQruamBzWrmWjv17hzW9MY477bB4gdsH32k4NtFk9lWyBsan3-WagWwjLAZaWmwISlUIqPY29-LotjZfiJftH2p10umsqGNqpgwFkcbtF-vtDgHwaapTf3LCcYw8RxX6u09C7bdbxwJuBev-XMLNpH28ds6rIe0s_VT_7QmUmLH636WCyxcZID233v3uxZbuNfOQfL2cE4KWXqsMcz5OW4nDX-zRlX-xpsYdAZe9K-uQyiqgLhzgewBuMjlpjhTwnDsQ_guyD3p__Wc7NykXMSORSFok4vVMw-EqfZWhuGSNA_AyKJrfcnaWKdwbkwXfbY5HgjGbPMz9K4fqh89-kJ2xGG1LM9ZuLeannJEVIydADb0ktSUoppGg63ZWs2hadUtiBUdAhaWkSrX6Uj0K5NjVsqQ5qBXtZocfNSF6ja0eCrQREHxl-_c5NYeftPbdOgAgAsPUyjMmyDA3ZJvlUDvqx5XCvC4WyoJ_INf2jcrUlygCAlFTE2uYOJzxRrl-Hef69i8-B-dqHanHjI-qmYNiZeiyXf_4bbRFPWxyjQpj4Sx_yvK1fvrBYF-ErBEDsgMVSAgXWS8toEPotYip368hDz37RUr4jQ |title="Not for Ornament": Patenting Activity by Nineteenth-Century Women Inventors", by B. Zorina Khan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, xxxi:2 (Autumn, 2000), 159–195. |access-date=2021-10-13 |archive-date=2021-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013134949/https://watermark.silverchair.com/002219500551514.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAsowggLGBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK3MIICswIBADCCAqwGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMRJq_WVoMOLxCLS-5AgEQgIICfcDnyz8GVO2xZ3SBJZQETlEDoyWCwcAocohzYXYNvLb-r4ob_5RZpgaXJBX6mZSfHCowRMmclIa1UqiQD0nLMweMUQlT3BNnIOHMZVBl_-4OiUZQmLjSCnZ6tFcpykhOhyOOI2xexIgJuIvCE8v7d2QylON6ZVYD5jnnZf-T9Y_5HhDD-BxGj8wnrJMcxHyiAh4Xvk2ebrc00cYoQU9FJGgx0UF1rB_ZcDUyElODLmo0CWY0TtQruamBzWrmWjv17hzW9MY477bB4gdsH32k4NtFk9lWyBsan3-WagWwjLAZaWmwISlUIqPY29-LotjZfiJftH2p10umsqGNqpgwFkcbtF-vtDgHwaapTf3LCcYw8RxX6u09C7bdbxwJuBev-XMLNpH28ds6rIe0s_VT_7QmUmLH636WCyxcZID233v3uxZbuNfOQfL2cE4KWXqsMcz5OW4nDX-zRlX-xpsYdAZe9K-uQyiqgLhzgewBuMjlpjhTwnDsQ_guyD3p__Wc7NykXMSORSFok4vVMw-EqfZWhuGSNA_AyKJrfcnaWKdwbkwXfbY5HgjGbPMz9K4fqh89-kJ2xGG1LM9ZuLeannJEVIydADb0ktSUoppGg63ZWs2hadUtiBUdAhaWkSrX6Uj0K5NjVsqQ5qBXtZocfNSF6ja0eCrQREHxl-_c5NYeftPbdOgAgAsPUyjMmyDA3ZJvlUDvqx5XCvC4WyoJ_INf2jcrUlygCAlFTE2uYOJzxRrl-Hef69i8-B-dqHanHjI-qmYNiZeiyXf_4bbRFPWxyjQpj4Sx_yvK1fvrBYF-ErBEDsgMVSAgXWS8toEPotYip368hDz37RUr4jQ |url-status=live }} was the first American woman to receive a patent,[https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Progress-and-Potential-2019.pdf Progress and Potential: A profile of women inventors on U.S. patents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916071626/https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Progress-and-Potential.pdf |date=2021-09-16 }} United States Patent and Trademark Office. although others state that Hannah Slater in 1793,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/women-inventors/|title=Women Inventors {{!}} History Detectives|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2016-08-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.britannica.com/2011/03/10-key-dates-womens-history-early-modern-period/|title=10 Key Dates in Women's History: The Early Modern Period {{!}} Britannica Blog|website=blogs.britannica.com|access-date=2016-08-10|archive-date=2018-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019043610/http://blogs.britannica.com/2011/03/10-key-dates-womens-history-early-modern-period/|url-status=dead}}
or Mary Kies, in 1809, was the first.{{Cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-mary-kies-americas-first-woman-become-patent-holder-180959008/?no-ist|title=Meet Mary Kies, America's First Woman to Become a Patent Holder|last=Blakemore|first=Erin|access-date=2016-08-11}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2016/01/first-women-inventors.html|title=First Women Inventors {{!}} History of American Women|website=www.womenhistoryblog.com|date=January 3, 2016 |access-date=August 10, 2016 }}