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Cheese from Turkey, eastern Black Sea

Golot (Kolot) peynirikolot

Skimmed milk is left half a day to a day to sour, then heated until it curdles; in an alternative method it is renneted at 30 °C. The curd is squeezed in a cloth and kneaded three times in ever hotter whey, up to 73–75 °C, salted at 1.5 g per 100 g and packed into a hollowed pine log (koloti). It ripens at least 3 months below 10 °C. Steps follow the Çayeli Koloti registration.

Fully documentedCheese3 monthsnone for golot as a whole; Çayeli Koloti Peyniri is a registered designation of origin (menşe adı) in Turkey, TÜRKPATENT no. 1199, 24 August 2022Family: Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette)

Recipe

Golot (Kolot) peyniri, a photo from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amounts from a sourceAmounts from the Çayeli Koloti registration, per 20 litres of milk for rennet and per 100 g of cheese for salt.
Milk of Jersey and crossbred cows grazing the high villages, pastures and meadows of Çayeli, skimmed by separator[koloti-gi]
Industrial cheese rennet (alternative method only)20 ml per 20 litres of milk[koloti-gi]
Salt1.5 g per 100 g of cheese[koloti-gi]
Starterskimmed milk left to sour in the cauldron for half a day to a day (registered method); rennet in the alternative method

Total time across the recorded steps: 3 months

Start
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What changes: The milk is strained and the cream is separated off

Step 1 of 7
Strain and skim the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria

The milk is strained and its cream taken off with a separator.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Skimmed milk is left half a day to a day to sour, then heated until it curdles; in an alternative method it is renneted at 30 °C. The curd is squeezed in a cloth and kneaded three times in ever hotter whey, up to 73–75 °C, salted at 1.5 g per 100 g and packed into a hollowed pine log (koloti). It ripens at least 3 months below 10 °C. Steps follow the Çayeli Koloti registration. Made in 7 steps over 3 months. The longest step, pack into the koloti and ripen, takes at least 3 months (TÜRKPATENT (Turkish Patent and Trademark Offi…) and runs at up to 10 °C (TÜRKPATENT (Turkish Patent and Trademark Offi…). Salt is 1.5 % (TÜRKPATENT (Turkish Patent and Trademark Offi…). Lactic acid bacteria does most of the fermenting.

Key numbers
Main stepat least 3 monthsSet[koloti-gi]Pack into the koloti and ripen
Temperatureup to 10 °CSet[koloti-gi]Pack into the koloti and ripen
Salt1.5 %Set[koloti-gi]Salt

What makes this one different

A low-fat cheese from soured skimmed milk whose curd is kneaded three times in hotter and hotter whey and then ripened in a hollowed pine log. The log, the koloti, gives the cheese its name.

Shape
Off-white, broad and thin
Composition (Çayeli koloti)
Fat 5–12% (a low-fat cheese), dry matter 45–52%, protein 27–40%, salt 1.4–5.2%
Use
Wikipedia says it is used to make muhlama
Eaten fresh or ripened
The Çayeli registration has the cheese ripen at least 3 months in the koloti, while a survey of Trabzon and Rize golot reports that it is mostly eaten fresh
Salt in surveyed golot
Salt averaged 2.95 ± 0.93 % in 30 samples from Trabzon and Rize

Related ferments

Safety

The Çayeli registration scalds the curd in whey at 73–75 °C and ripens it at least 3 months below 10 °C. A survey of Trabzon golot found coliforms in about a third of samples but no E. coli or Salmonella, while a separate survey of 30 Trabzon and Rize samples found E. coli in three and Staphylococcus aureus in two. The sources also differ on the heat step. Tunçtürk and Özdemir report the curd cooked at 85–90 °C, and Wikipedia describes boiling cut curd in 80–90 °C brine.

Hazards the sources name: Coliform bacteria (found in 36.67% of samples; E. coli and Salmonella found in none); E. coli (found in 3 of 30 samples) and Staphylococcus aureus (found in 2 of 30) in a separate survey of Trabzon and Rize golot; the two surveys disagree on E. coli.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The registration dates Çayeli koloti to about 200 years ago, made from the milk of animals grazing the high villages and pastures of Çayeli, above all the Senoz valley. It was registered as a designation of origin on 24 August 2022 on an application filed 20 November 2020. A 2005 survey describes golot as made mostly on family farms in Trabzon and Rize, usually by acid coagulation.

  1. [koloti-gi] TÜRKPATENT (Turkish Patent and Trademark Office), geographical indication registration no. 1199, 'Çayeli Koloti Peyniri', designation of origin, registered 24.08.2022 (application C2020/411)spec
  2. [yazici2001] Yazıcı F., Dervişoğlu M. 2001, Golot peynirinin mikrobiyolojik özellikleri (Microbiological properties of golot cheese), Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Dergisi 16(1):16–20 (abstract)paper
  3. [tuncturk2005] Tunçtürk Y., Özdemir M. 2005, Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesinde Üretilen ve Tüketime Sunulan Golot Peynirinin Üretim Tekniği, Bazı Kimyasal, Biyokimyasal ve Mikrobiyolojik Özellikleri (Production techniques and some chemical, biochemical and microbiological characteristics of golot cheese), Gıda (The Journal of Food) 30(3) (abstract)paper
  4. [tr-wp] Wikipedia (Turkish), Kolot peyniriwiki