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Cheesecloth is a loosewoven cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 cloth used in cheese
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 making, such as to press cheese curds for poutine
Poutine

Poutine is a dish consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds, covered with brown gravy and sometimes additional ingredients. It is a quintessential Cuisine of Canada comfort food, especially in Quebec....
. Cheesecloth is also used in straining stocks and custards, bundling herbs, making tofu
Tofu

Tofu , also , doufu , toufu, or bean curd , is a food of China origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks....
, and thickening yogurt.

Cheesecloth was very popular as a material for thongs and shirts during the 1960s and 1970s.

Cheesecloth is available in at least seven different grades,from open to extra-fine weave.






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Cheesecloth is a loosewoven cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
 cloth used in cheese
Cheese

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cattle, Water Buffalo, goats, or sheep's milk. It is produced by Coagulation of the milk protein casein....
 making, such as to press cheese curds for poutine
Poutine

Poutine is a dish consisting of French fries topped with fresh cheese curds, covered with brown gravy and sometimes additional ingredients. It is a quintessential Cuisine of Canada comfort food, especially in Quebec....
. Cheesecloth is also used in straining stocks and custards, bundling herbs, making tofu
Tofu

Tofu , also , doufu , toufu, or bean curd , is a food of China origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks....
, and thickening yogurt.

Cheesecloth was very popular as a material for thongs and shirts during the 1960s and 1970s.

Cheesecloth is available in at least seven different grades,from open to extra-fine weave. Grades are distinguished by the number of threads per inch in each direction.

Cheesecloth can also be used for several printmaking
Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of producing multiples of the same piece, which is called a 'print....
 processes including lithography
Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. By contrast, in intaglio a plate is engraving, etching or mezzotint to make cavities to contain the printing ink, and in woodblock printing and letterpress ink is applied to the raised surfaces of letters or images....
 for wiping up gum arabic
Gum arabic

Gum arabic, also known as gum acacia, chaar gund or char goond, is a natural gum made of hardened sap taken from two species of the acacia tree; Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal....
. In intaglio
Intaglio

Intaglio may refer to:*Intaglio , a printmaking technique with an incised image*Intaglio , a similar effect in jewelry*Intaglio , a similar effect in burial mounds...
 a heavily starched cheesecloth called tarlatan is used for wiping away excess ink from the printing surface.

It was also used to simulate the presence of "ectoplasm" during false spirit channelings or other ghost related phenomena.