At Work With: How an Oregon family became masters of Mexican cheese

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At Work With: How an Oregon family became masters of Mexican cheese

It’s around ten in the morning when Francisco Ochoa walks into the cheesemaking room at Don Froylan Creamery, where cheese curds are forming in a vat machine.“My favorite thing to do is make cheese,” he said.Ochoa is the owner and head cheesemaker here at the Salem-based company, which produces authentic Mexican cheeses. It also makes the best string cheese in the U.S., according to the American Cheese Society’s 2024 competition.“For me to do so…