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Washed-rind cheeses are periodically cured in a solution of saltwater brine or mold-bearing agents that may include beer, wine, brandy and spices, making their surfaces amenable to a class of bacteria (Brevibacterium linens, the reddish-orange smear bacteria) that impart pungent odors and distinctive flavors and produce a firm, flavorful rind around the cheese. [1]
It is classified as an Alpine cheese. The cheese is made in discs, each between 40 and 70 cm (16 and 28 inches) in diameter, and around 10 cm (4 inches) in height. Each disc weighs up to 50 kg (110 lb) with a fat in dry matter (FDM) around 45%. The rind is usually a dusty-brown colour, and the internal paste, pâte, is a pale creamy yellow. The ...
Oka is a semi-soft washed rind cheese that was originally manufactured by Trappist monks located in Oka, Quebec, Canada. The cheese is named after the town. It has a distinct flavour and aroma, and is still manufactured in Oka, although now by a commercial company. The recipe was sold in 1981 by Les Pères Trappistes to the Agropur cooperative. [1]
The cheese is aged and flipped every day for 2 to 4 weeks to allow it to develop a rind. As this process takes place, the Brie drains slowly and shrinks in height.
A bloomy rind is a cheese rind that is soft and fluffy and white in color. Cheese that uses Penicillium camemberti is prone to developing bloomy rind. Bloomy rind cheese can be described as having "mild and lactic" flavors that may resemble onion or mushroom. [1] They are described as being "ripened from the outside", and usually have creamy ...
Époisses is a pungent soft-paste cow's-milk cheese. Smear-ripened, "washed rind" (washed in brine and Marc de Bourgogne, the local pomace brandy), it is circular at around either 10 cm (4 in) or 18 cm (7 in) in diameter, with a distinctive soft red-orange color. It is made either from raw or pasteurized milk. [1] The rind is edible. [2]
Demand for the cheese subsequently rose by 500 percent, [4] forcing the cheesemaker to hire more staff and increase production. [5] It was also referenced again at the end of Episode 4 of Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention , where Wallace samples an even more pungent – fictional – variant of Stinking Bishop, called "Stinking Archbishop".
A mix of blue cheese and brie, creamy, blue-veined cheese with a white-mould rind. Saga is a very mild blue-veined cheese. It comes with a delicate blue mold, that may not appear in other varieties of blue cheeses. It is aged for more than 60 days. Samsø cheese: Samsø: A cow's milk cheese named after the island of Samsø. It is similar to ...