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Pressed uncooked cheeses

Lightly scalded, pressed curds with natural or washed rinds: tommes and monastery cheeses.

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CheeseRegionMilkRipeningRind
FelciataItaly, Calabria30–45 minNone; porcelain-white, creamy, moist
FontalN Italycow milk~2 mo
Formadi frant / Formaggio salatoFriulicow milkmonths in brine
Formaggi di stazzoItaly, Abruzzoat least 30 daysNone or thin natural; basket marks
Formaggio della paglia (Lavizzara)Switzerland, Ticino2 months
Formaggio di capraItaly, Lazio0.2–0.5 minSmooth to rough with basket marks; ivory to light straw
Formaggio StraconItaly, Veneto, province of Verona50 days – 2 monthsClean, dry, slightly thick, yellow
Formaggio ValmorelItaly, VenetoClean; white to deep straw yellow, soft to hard by age
Fourme de Rochefort-MontagneFrance, Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme45 days – 2 months
FrachetItaly, PiemonteAlmost none, or very thin wrinkled orange bloomy skin
Frant (Friuli)Carniacow milkweeks
Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra)Spain, Basque Country and northern Navarreold S cheese (Latxa), optionally with Latxa milk, water or pacharán/aguardientein a small clay pot, ≥2 monone; soft, creamy spread
Giuncatella abruzzeseItaly, Abruzzo30 min – 1 hNone; white; basket marks
Golot (Kolot) peyniriTurkey, eastern Black Sea
GomolyaHungary
Hokkaido raclette / Tokachi cheesesTokachicow milk
Ibores PDOExtremaduragoat milk, raw≥60 d
Källarlagrad getost (cellar-ripened goat cheese)Sweden, Jämtlandgoat milk, raw (unpasteurised)in an earth cellar built in the mid-19th century; moulds of several colours, notably red, grow on the rind
Krasotyri of Kos (tyri tis posias)Greece, Dodecanese
Livanjski sirLivno, Bosniasheep/cow milk≥60 d
Mahón-Menorca PDOMenorcacow milk, (+≤5% S)tierno 21 d to añejo >5 mo
Marzolino di TeanoItaly, CampaniaTreated, clean, aromatised
Mastelo (Chios)Greece, North AegeanCow milk; goat-milk versions also exist
Mollana della Val BorberaItaly, Piemonteat least 14 daysNone when fresh; after about two weeks a light white-to-straw rind covered in white mould
Monte Veronese PDOLessiniacow milk25 d – >6 mo
MortrettItaly, PiemonteNone when fresh; clean or slightly mouldy, yellow-pink to brown after smoking
Mostviertler SchofkasAustria, Lower Austria
Murol (Grand Murols)France, Auvergnecow milkabout 1 mo (5–6 wk)washed-rind type of Saint-Nectaire
MurtaratItaly, Piemonte2–7 monthsSlightly rough, straw to light brown/grey; sometimes coated in the flavourings
PadraccioItaly, Basilicata30 minNone; white, smooth
Pas de RougeBelgiumNatural red smear rind (not edible)
PassendaleBelgium, West FlandersPasteurised cow milk from local farms
Primo sale di latte ovinoItaly, Lazio24 h – 7 daysNone, or a very thin soft white rind
Pustertaler Bergkäse (Formaggio di montagna della Val Pusteria)Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. BolzanoSmooth, soft, elastic; straw, light brown or brown, white moulds
Queijo colonialS Brazilcow milk
Queijo de Cabra das BeirasPortugal, Beiras
Queijo de Cabra do GuadianaPortugal, Baixo Alentejo along the lower Guadiana30 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal da CanastraBrazil, Minas Geraisat least 22 daysThin, smooth, yellow, darker at edges; white or green mould with age
Queijo Minas Artesanal de AraxáBrazil, Minas Geraisat least 14 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do Campo das VertentesBrazil, Minas Geraisat least 22 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do SerroBrazil, Minas Geraisat least 7 daysThin, no cracks; thick and dry by day 13
Queijo serranoRS/SC campos de cima da serracow milk, raw≥60 d
Queso blanquet (queso de cabra de Alicante)Spain, Valencian CommunityBarely any
Queso chaqueñoBolivia, Chaco24 h
Queso cremoso / Por salut argentinoArgentinacow milk~3 wk
Queso de AcehúcheSpain, Extremaduraat least 40 daysWaxy yellow to dark ochre; natural, paprika-coated (pimentonada) or rubbed with oil
Queso de bola de OcosingoChiapascow milk
Queso de BurgosSpain, Castile and LeónNone; smooth white surfaces with cloth or mould marks
Queso de El Carballo (queso de Taramundi)Spain, Asturiasat least 2 monthsThin, cream-coloured
Queso de freírDominican Republiccow milknone; fresh
Queso de hoja (Veracruz)Mexico, Veracruz
Queso de Murcia al Vino PDOMurciagoat milk, (Murciana)≥45 d
Queso de poro de BalancánTabascocow milk~1 mo
Queso de Pría / Ahumado de PríaSpain, Asturias30 days – 2 monthsHard, smooth, brown
Queso de servilletaSpain, Valencian CommunityWhite (fresh) to light yellow (cured); cloth weave visible
Queso de VidiagoSpain, AsturiasThin, soft, yellow
Queso de VillalónSpain, Castile and Leónup to 2 daysNone; soft, compact paste
Queso herreñoSpain, Canary IslandsShows burnished lines from the smoking grill
Queso PaipaBoyacá, Colombiacow milk, raw≥21 d
Queso palmizuliaVenezuela, Zulia24 h – 2 days
Queso TurrialbaCosta Rica, Cartagoup to 24 hNone
Raclette de Savoie PGISavoiecow milk≥6 wk
Ras (Rumi)Egyptcow/buffalo milk, (or mixed)≥3 mo
Raschera PDOCuneocow milk, (+S/G)≥30 d
Raviggiolo di latte vaccino del MugelloItaly, ToscanaNone; glossy, wet, milk-white
Raviggiolo di pecora seneseItaly, ToscanaNone; milk-white
ReblecItaly, Valle d'Aosta1.5 hNone
Reblec de cramaItaly, Valle d'Aosta1.5 hNone
Robiola d'AlbaItaly, PiemonteNone in industrial versions; thin, soft, cream to light straw, slightly mouldy when aged in traditional ones
Robiola della Val BormidaItaly, Liguria4–6 daysNone, or a thin wrinkled moist skin, white to ivory
SalagnùnItaly, PiemonteThin, light dark-ochre
SalignunItaly, PiemonteNone when fresh; thin, ochre-brown when smoke-dried
Ser koryciński swojski PGIPodlasiecow milk, rawfresh–weeks
Sot la trapeItaly, Friuli Venezia Giulia8–10 daysTreated; violet with red pomace, bright yellow with white
Spressa delle Giudicarie PDOTrentinocow milk, skim≥3 mo
Stagionato di bufala di FormelloItaly, Lazio6–12 monthsThin, semi-hard to hard; ochre if clean, blackish if waxed
Stracchino di capraItaly, LazioNone, or thin, soft, sometimes bloomy, porcelain-white
Teviotdale PDOBorderscow milk, (Jersey)
Tilsiter (German)East Prussia origincow milk~2–5 mo
Tilsiter (Swiss)Thurgaucow milk≥2 mo

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What the sources record about each of these so far.

FelciataItaly, Calabria

Unsalted creamy curd layered with ferns that perfume it; made May–August, hard to find.

Rind
None; porcelain-white, creamy, moist
Size
0.2–0.4 kg; takes the container's shape
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd30–45 min · 34 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
FontalN Italy

industrial Fontina style

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
~2 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Formadi frant / Formaggio salatoFriuli

brine-preserved Montasio-type

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
months in brine

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Formaggi di stazzoItaly, Abruzzo

Generic name for cheeses made at the summer mountain sheep folds of the transhumance, with the oldest techniques still in use.

Rind
None or thin natural; basket marks
Size
Variable; cylinder
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripenat least 30 days
Formaggio della paglia (Lavizzara)Switzerland, Ticino

Also called formaggio della paglia, formaggio alto.

Formaggio della paglia is a soft, strong-smelling cow cheese from the alps of Fusio in the upper Valle Maggia, once wrapped in rye straw and shipped across northern Italy. The milk is warmed only gently, set with rennet in about 30 minutes, broken into large grains and put into hoops without pressing. One producer still makes it, ripening it about two months in a cool cellar.

Size
4–5 kg; about 25 cm diameter, 7–8 cm high
Season
Made at the start of the alp season and for Christmas; sold mainly August to October at Fusio
  1. Warm the milk gently
  2. Set with rennet30 min
  3. Break into large grains
  4. Fill hoops without pressing
  5. Salt
  6. Ripen in a cool cellar2 months

Safety: No safety data or study of this cheese was found.

Formaggio di capraItaly, Lazio

Generic Lazio goat cheese made in the Marzolina area in warmer months; rind may be rubbed with an oil-vinegar-herb sauce.

Rind
Smooth to rough with basket marks; ivory to light straw
Size
0.2–1.5 kg; cylinder
  1. Prepare the milk0.2–0.5 min · 68–72 °C
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cook the curd
  4. Ripen
Formaggio StraconItaly, Veneto, province of Verona

Also called Stracon.

Stracon is a semi-cooked, semi-hard summer cheese from the alpine pastures of the Verona mountains. Raw whole milk from a single milking is set with calf rennet at 37 °C, the curd is broken and semi-cooked at 45–48 °C, and the wheels ripen 50–60 days in cool, very humid rooms.

Rind
Clean, dry, slightly thick, yellow
Size
About 6.0 kg; diameter 20–25 cm, height 7–9 cm; faces irregular
Season
Made June to September in the high Lessinia
  1. Warm the raw milk
  2. Set with calf rennet37 °C
  3. Break the curd
  4. Semi-cook the curd45–48 °C
  5. Hoop and rest the wheels
  6. Salt the wheels
  7. Ripen50 days – 2 months

Safety: The cheese is made from raw milk and ripened only 50–60 days, so keep it cool.

Formaggio ValmorelItaly, Veneto

Cooperative raw-milk cheese sold at three ages; taste said to vary day to day with feed, season and weather.

Rind
Clean; white to deep straw yellow, soft to hard by age
Size
3–4 kg; size otherwise variable
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Cook the curd40 °C
  5. Mould and salt
  6. Ripen
Fourme de Rochefort-MontagneFrance, Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme

Also called Fourme de Rochefort, Fourme fermière de Rochefort.

Fourme de Rochefort is a farm cheese of raw whole cow milk from the Puy-de-Dôme, made from a milled and salted tome like other Auvergne pressed cheeses. The milk is renneted right after milking, the pressed curd (tome) is milled, salted, moulded and pressed for about a day, and the cylinders ripen for about 45–60 days. Around ten farms make it, and a cooperative at Perpezat ripens and sells much of it.

Size
Cylinder about 7 kg, 29 cm diameter, 10 cm high
Output
About 100 tonnes a year through the La Fourmontoise cooperative (2013); about 120 tonnes a year in Wikipedia
  1. Rennet the milk after milking
  2. Mill the tome
  3. Salt the milled curd
  4. Mould and press24 h
  5. Ripen in the cellar45 days – 2 months

Safety: The cheese is made from raw milk. No safety study of this cheese was found.

FrachetItaly, Piemonte

Spiced cheese-and-ricotta ball, once a way to use unsellable or faulty cheeses; paste dotted dark with ground spices.

Rind
Almost none, or very thin wrinkled orange bloomy skin
Size
100–300 g; ball ø 9–11 cm
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
Frant (Friuli)Carnia

mixture of crumbled cheeses re-salted and pressed with milk/cream

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
weeks

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra)Spain, Basque Country and northern Navarre

Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra, old cheese) is a Basque and northern Navarrese spread made by leaving old Latxa sheep cheese to ferment in a small clay pot for two months or more, sometimes with milk, water or liquor such as pacharán. Some older gaztazarra is kept as the mother for the next pot. It is strong and peppery.

Milk
old S cheese (Latxa), optionally with Latxa milk, water or pacharán/aguardiente
Ripening
in a small clay pot, ≥2 mo
Rind
none; soft, creamy spread
Size
pots of 100–250 g

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Giuncatella abruzzeseItaly, Abruzzo

Transhumance fresh ewe curd, very creamy and moist; fig-latex coagulation survives locally.

Rind
None; white; basket marks
Size
0.5–0.8 kg; Ø 13–18 cm, height 4–8 cm; very moist, slumps into a flat 'focaccia'
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd30 min – 1 h · 36–37 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
Golot (Kolot) peyniriTurkey, eastern Black Sea

Also called kolot, koloti, kuymak peyniri.

Low-fat, low-salt cow cheese that melts into long strings; the cheese of kuymak/muhlama. Fat ranges widely (about 1–20 %); Çayeli koloti 5–12 %.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripen
GomolyaHungary

Small farmhouse cloth-drained curd loaf, fresh or lightly aged; cow, sheep or mixed.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Ripen
Hokkaido raclette / Tokachi cheesesTokachi

Tokachi Raclette collective (Fortune)

Milk
cow milk

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Ibores PDOExtremadura

paprika-rubbed rind

Milk
goat milk, raw
Ripening
≥60 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Källarlagrad getost (cellar-ripened goat cheese)Sweden, Jämtland

Källarlagrad getost is a raw goat-milk cheese from the Stengärde goat farm in Jämtland, made to a grandmother's recipe and ripened in an earth cellar built in the mid-19th century. The cellar's damp lets white and red moulds grow on the rind.

Milk
goat milk, raw (unpasteurised)
Ripening
in an earth cellar built in the mid-19th century; moulds of several colours, notably red, grow on the rind

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Krasotyri of Kos (tyri tis posias)Greece, Dodecanese

Also called κρασοτύρι Κω, τυρί της ποσιάς.

White island cheese finished in wine lees; a relative of Sifnos 'manoura'.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripen
Livanjski sirLivno, Bosnia
Milk
sheep/cow milk
Ripening
≥60 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Mahón-Menorca PDOMenorca

square cushion via cloth 'fogasser'; rind rubbed with butter/oil/paprika

Milk
cow milk, (+≤5% S)
Ripening
tierno 21 d to añejo >5 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Marzolino di TeanoItaly, Campania

Also called marzellina.

Soft March-made sister of casoperuto, thistle-coagulated and herb-finished, but not jar-fermented.

Rind
Treated, clean, aromatised
Size
About 150 g; small oblong square-based prism
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripen
Mastelo (Chios)Greece, North Aegean

Also called Μαστέλο, Mastelo cheese, Mastelo®.

Mastelo is a soft, white, chewy cheese from Chios, made from cow or goat milk. It is sold for grilling, like halloumi. It is a trademarked dairy product, and its make has not been published.

Milk
Cow milk; goat-milk versions also exist
Type
Soft, white, chewy grilling cheese
Behaviour in storage
In a challenge test at 7 °C, Listeria monocytogenes survived on Mastelo but did not grow, which the authors put down to competing microbes and/or low pH or water activity

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Safety: In a laboratory test at 7 °C, Listeria monocytogenes did not grow on Mastelo but was not always eliminated, so it should be kept cold.

Mollana della Val BorberaItaly, Piemonte

Soft, yielding ('molle') high-moisture fresh cow cheese with low acidity (pH 6.0–6.5).

Rind
None when fresh; after about two weeks a light white-to-straw rind covered in white mould
Size
0.7–1.2 kg; low, wide cylinder
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Ripenat least 14 days
Monte Veronese PDOLessinia
Milk
cow milk
Ripening
25 d – >6 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

MortrettItaly, Piemonte

Also called Murtret, Murtrett.

Spiced, often smoked, pressed paste of toma pieces with chilli and cumin, born to save unsellable cheese.

Rind
None when fresh; clean or slightly mouldy, yellow-pink to brown after smoking
Size
Small rounded 0.25–0.5 kg, or flattened up to 2 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
Mostviertler SchofkasAustria, Lower Austria

Fresh sheep-cheese roll sold floating in its whey; served with chives, pumpkin-seed oil or pear vinegar.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
Murol (Grand Murols)France, Auvergne

Murol, or Grand Murols, is an uncooked pressed cow-milk cheese from the Puy-de-Dôme, created by Jacques Bérioux in the 1920s and 1930s and made much like Saint-Nectaire. A hole is punched out of the middle of each 450 g wheel, and the plug is sold on its own, coated in red wax, as Murolait. It ripens for about a month.

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
about 1 mo (5–6 wk)
Rind
washed-rind type of Saint-Nectaire
Size
about 450 g; 12 cm across, 3.5–4 cm high, 3 cm central hole

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

MurtaratItaly, Piemonte

Strong, piquant cheese flavoured inside with e.g. garlic or walnuts; name means 'firecracker'.

Rind
Slightly rough, straw to light brown/grey; sometimes coated in the flavourings
Size
0.4–0.7 kg; low irregular cylinder with faces about 20 cm, side 3–4 cm (also block or ring shape)
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Ripen2–7 months
PadraccioItaly, Basilicata

Large, perishable cacioricotta-type goat curd with acidic taste and light goaty notes; made June–September, sold only locally.

Rind
None; white, smooth
Size
0.3–2.5 kg; often slumped
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd30 min · 85–90 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
Pas de RougeBelgium

Belgian organic raw-milk semi-hard cheese with a red B. linens smear; creamy and mild; 53.9 % fat in dry matter.

Rind
Natural red smear rind (not edible)
Size
Flat wheel, about 2–2.3 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
PassendaleBelgium, West Flanders

Also called Passendale, Passchendaele cheese, Passendale Classic, Groot Hof.

Pasteurised cow milk from local farms is made into a round, loaf-shaped cheese that is shaped by hand and ripened slowly in linen cloths in the dairy's cellar. It has a brown or golden rind with white spots and a creamy, mild, slightly sweet paste with small holes.

Milk
Pasteurised cow milk from local farms
Shape
Round, like a farmhouse loaf
  1. Take local cow milk
  2. Shape by hand
  3. Ripen slowly in the cellar

Safety: No safety source specific to Passendale was found. It is made from pasteurised milk.

Primo sale di latte ovinoItaly, Lazio

Large fresh Sarda-ewe primo sale from Tuscia, usually eaten with olive oil and black pepper.

Rind
None, or a very thin soft white rind
Size
About 2 kg; cylinder with basket marks
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripen24 h – 7 days
Pustertaler Bergkäse (Formaggio di montagna della Val Pusteria)Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano

Classic Pustertal alpine-style cheese with sparse, large, irregular eyes and an elastic, unctuous paste.

Rind
Smooth, soft, elastic; straw, light brown or brown, white moulds
Size
Ø 40 cm, height 10–11 cm, 10–14 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cook the curd
  4. Ripen
Queijo colonialS Brazil

Italian/German immigrant farm cheese

Milk
cow milk

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queijo de Cabra das BeirasPortugal, Beiras

Small goat cheeses where the dried 'seco' is simply salted leftover fresh cheese.

Size
Fresco <150 g; seco about 100 g; curado ≤12 cm, 4 cm high, ≤1 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd28–31 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripen
Queijo de Cabra do GuadianaPortugal, Baixo Alentejo along the lower Guadiana

Goat milk is filtered, boiled, cooled to about 38–40 °C and set with cardoon, with some salt added to the milk. The curd drains in porous cloths and is pressed into small hoops. Most is eaten fresh within three days; the seco gets a little more salt, dries about 30 days on cane racks and is kept in olive oil or under salt in clay pots. The boiled milk means the fresh cheese is set by cardoon enzymes rather than by fermentation.

Size
Fresco 150–250 g, about 8 cm across, 3–5 cm high; seco 90–150 g, 5–6 cm across, 2–3 cm high
Use
Fresh cheese is eaten within 72 h of making; about three quarters of output is fresh
  1. Filter and boil the milk
  2. Cool and add cardoon38–40 °C
  3. Drain in porous cloths
  4. Fill the hoops and salt the outside
  5. Dry the seco on cane racks30 days
  6. Keep under olive oil or salt

Safety: The milk is boiled before making. The fresh cheese is eaten within 72 hours.

Queijo Minas Artesanal da CanastraBrazil, Minas Gerais

The best-known Minas raw-milk cheese; few small eyes, buttery semi-hard paste, mild, lightly acid and piquant.

Rind
Thin, smooth, yellow, darker at edges; white or green mould with age
Size
Cylinder 15–17 cm diam., 4–6 cm high; 1.0–1.2 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripenat least 22 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal de AraxáBrazil, Minas Gerais

Drier, sharper Minas cheese with firm but buttery paste and cream-white colour; shortest legal ripening of the Minas regions.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Ripenat least 14 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do Campo das VertentesBrazil, Minas Gerais

Minas raw-milk cheese of the Campo das Vertentes highlands; sensory and microbiological profile studied by UFJF (2014).

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Ripenat least 22 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do SerroBrazil, Minas Gerais

Smaller, more acid Minas cheese of the Espinhaço range; total solids 46–52 %, fat in solids ≥50 %; colour shifts from cream to golden after ~13 d.

Rind
Thin, no cracks; thick and dry by day 13
Size
Cylinder 13–15 cm diam., 4–6 cm high; 700–1,000 g
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripenat least 7 days
Queijo serranoRS/SC campos de cima da serra
Milk
cow milk, raw
Ripening
≥60 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso blanquet (queso de cabra de Alicante)Spain, Valencian Community

Sweetish low-salt goat disc with esparto-weave sides; sometimes kept in brine.

Rind
Barely any
Size
About 0.5 kg; about 15 cm disc
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
Queso chaqueñoBolivia, Chaco

Salt-in-curd pressed farm cheese of the Bolivian Chaco cattle country; documented only by producer descriptions.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt24 h
Queso cremoso / Por salut argentinoArgentina
Milk
cow milk
Ripening
~3 wk

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso de AcehúcheSpain, Extremadura

Moist raw-goat-milk cheese with a slightly 'putrid' smeared rind and paprika or oil coatings; hand-wetted 'sobao' rind finish.

Rind
Waxy yellow to dark ochre; natural, paprika-coated (pimentonada) or rubbed with oil
Size
200–1,200 g; cylinder, diameter ≥7 cm, height ≤50% of diameter
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripenat least 40 days
Queso de bola de OcosingoChiapas

crumbly core in stretched-curd shell

Milk
cow milk

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso de BurgosSpain, Castile and León

Unpressed, unripened fresh rennet cheese, Spain's best-known 'queso fresco'; the sheep-milk share sets the grade name.

Rind
None; smooth white surfaces with cloth or mould marks
Size
Cylinder
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
Queso de El Carballo (queso de Taramundi)Spain, Asturias

Also called queso de Taramundi, El Carballo, Taramundi cheese with walnuts and hazelnuts.

A small pressed cheese from Taramundi in western Asturias, made plain from cow and goat milk or from cow milk studded with hazelnuts or walnuts. Turismo Asturias describes milk set with rennet at about 30 °C, a rice-sized cut, stirring while the curd warms, two hours of pressing, a short brine and at least two months of ripening at 10–12 °C.

Size
Cylinders of 500 g or 1 kg (Turismo Asturias); 600 g or 1 kg (Wikipedia)
Rind
Thin, cream-coloured
  1. Warm the milk and add rennet30–31 °C
  2. Cut and stir while warming20 min · 45 °C
  3. Mould and press2 h
  4. Brine5–10 h
  5. Dry5–6 days · 10 °C
  6. Ripenat least 2 months · 10–12 °C
Queso de freírDominican Republic

Also called queso de freír, queso frito (when cooked), queso blanco (Dominican), Dominican frying cheese.

Queso de freír is a firm, salty white Dominican cheese with a very high melting point, so slices hold their shape when fried. Fried, it is queso frito, part of the Tres Golpes breakfast. No source found describes how it is made or whether a fermentation step is involved.

Milk
cow milk
Moulding and salting
pressed, salted firm white curd
Ripening
none; fresh

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso de hoja (Veracruz)Mexico, Veracruz

Fresh pressed cow cheese wrapped in wetland-plant leaves that slow moisture loss in the hot coast climate and add herbal notes; traditional recipe is only milk, salt and rennet.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
Queso de Murcia al Vino PDOMurcia

rind bathed in red wine

Milk
goat milk, (Murciana)
Ripening
≥45 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso de poro de BalancánTabasco

porous; paraffin coat

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
~1 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso de Pría / Ahumado de PríaSpain, Asturias

Also called Queso de Pría, Ahumado de Pría.

Queso de Pría is a semi-soft pressed cheese of pasteurised cow milk with sheep cream added. The milk is set with natural rennet at 30 °C, the curd is cut, moulded, pressed 24 hours and brined, then ripened one to two months. The best-known form, Ahumado de Pría, is then smoked over oak and beech.

Rind
Hard, smooth, brown
Size
Cylinders of 500–800 g (small) or 1.5–2 kg (large)
Fat
45 %
  1. Add sheep cream to the milk
  2. Set with natural rennet30 min · 30 °C
  3. Cut and reheat the curd35 °C
  4. Mould and press24 h
  5. Brine and air-dry
  6. Ripen30 days – 2 months
  7. Smoke over oak and beech

Safety: The milk is pasteurised before cheesemaking.

Queso de servilletaSpain, Valencian Community

Also called formatge de tovalló.

Shaped by a tied napkin instead of a mould, giving a globe with a top knot.

Rind
White (fresh) to light yellow (cured); cloth weave visible
Size
≤2 kg; squarish globe
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
Queso de VidiagoSpain, Asturias

Soft rectangular farmhouse cow cheese of one family (Collera).

Rind
Thin, soft, yellow
Size
About 1 kg; rectangular
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
Queso de VillalónSpain, Castile and León

Also called queso de Villalón, Villalón cheese, queso fresco de Villalón.

A very fresh sheep-milk cheese from Villalón de Campos, sometimes mixed with cow milk or made from cow milk alone. The milk is renneted as soon as the ewes are milked, and the soft, rindless cylinders are sold the same day and keep no more than two days. Cheeses left unsold were traditionally ripened into Pata de mulo, a name also used for Villalón cheese itself.

Rind
None; soft, compact paste
Shape
Cylinder
Keeping
Sold the day it is made; keeps at most two days
  1. Rennet the milk straight after milking
  2. Drain and mould
  3. Sell the same dayup to 2 days
Queso herreñoSpain, Canary Islands

Mixed raw-milk island cheese smoked over cactus pads and fig wood; fresh one fills the quesadilla herreña.

Rind
Shows burnished lines from the smoking grill
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripen
Queso PaipaBoyacá, Colombia

Colombia's first DO cheese

Milk
cow milk, raw
Ripening
≥21 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Queso palmizuliaVenezuela, Zulia

Also called queso palmita (parent type).

Zulia's fresh white cheese with gas holes ('ojos') from bacterial and yeast fermentation; palmizulia is a softer variant of palmita.

  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen24 h – 2 days
Queso TurrialbaCosta Rica, Cartago

Also called queso blanco tipo Turrialba.

Pressed fresh white cheese with a mild, slightly salty taste, no holes, slices without crumbling; holds a Costa Rican DO; made in Santa Cruz for over 160 years.

Rind
None
Size
Square block
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and saltup to 24 h
Raclette de Savoie PGISavoie

washed rind; melting cheese

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
≥6 wk

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Ras (Rumi)Egypt

hard, peppercorns sometimes; Kefalotyri-derived

Milk
cow/buffalo milk, (or mixed)
Ripening
≥3 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Raschera PDOCuneo

square or round; d'alpeggio

Milk
cow milk, (+S/G)
Ripening
≥30 d

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Raviggiolo di latte vaccino del MugelloItaly, Toscana

Also called Raviggiolo del Mugello.

Very wet, barely set cow curd eaten within a day, from the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines.

Rind
None; glossy, wet, milk-white
Size
~1 kg; Ø 15–25 cm, side 2–4 cm; collapsed
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripen4 °C
Raviggiolo di pecora seneseItaly, Toscana

Pudding-soft ewe curd set in bowls; slightly acidic, sweetish.

Rind
None; milk-white
Size
~400 g; bowl shape
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd38 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
ReblecItaly, Valle d'Aosta

Unsalted creamy household curd of farm families.

Rind
None
Size
Small cylinder or truncated cone, variable
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd1.5 h · 36 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
Reblec de cramaItaly, Valle d'Aosta

Cream-enriched Reblec; eaten plain, with herbs and spices, or sweetened as a dessert.

Rind
None
Size
Small cylinder or truncated cone, variable
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd1.5 h · 35 °C
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
Robiola d'AlbaItaly, Piemonte

Small soft cow robiola, moist and chalky-granular, with a fresh acidic note.

Rind
None in industrial versions; thin, soft, cream to light straw, slightly mouldy when aged in traditional ones
Size
300–400 g; cylinder ø 9–12 cm, side 2.5–3.0 cm
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Ripen
Robiola della Val BormidaItaly, Liguria

Among the oldest Ligurian ewe cheeses; tiny, creamy, very mild uncut-curd robiola sold only locally.

Rind
None, or a thin wrinkled moist skin, white to ivory
Size
0.2–0.4 kg; small cylinder or block
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripen4–6 days
SalagnùnItaly, Piemonte

Large salted, spiced block of re-kneaded toma, shaped for slicing; formerly a way to save faulty cheese.

Rind
Thin, light dark-ochre
Size
8.0–15.0 kg; rectangular block
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
SalignunItaly, Piemonte

Also called Salgnun.

Spiced ball of re-kneaded Tometto, white flecked red and green with spices, often hearth-smoked.

Rind
None when fresh; thin, ochre-brown when smoke-dried
Size
0.250–0.500 kg; roughly spherical
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen
Ser koryciński swojski PGIPodlasie

basket-moulded

Milk
cow milk, raw
Ripening
fresh–weeks

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Sot la trapeItaly, Friuli Venezia Giulia

'Under the pomace': affined in grape must or pomace rather than wine, so fruit aromas reach the centre.

Rind
Treated; violet with red pomace, bright yellow with white
Size
Latteria ø 30–33 cm, height 8 cm, 6 kg; caciotta ø 10–15 cm, height 10 cm, 1–3 kg
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Mould and salt
  3. Ripen8–10 days · 10–15 °C
Spressa delle Giudicarie PDOTrentino

low fat

Milk
cow milk, skim
Ripening
≥3 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Stagionato di bufala di FormelloItaly, Lazio

Aged buffalo table or grating cheese; flaky paste with irregular eyes under the rind.

Rind
Thin, semi-hard to hard; ochre if clean, blackish if waxed
Size
About 2 kg; cylinder with basket marks
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Mould and salt
  4. Ripen6–12 months
Stracchino di capraItaly, Lazio

Creamy goat-milk stracchino; also made organically.

Rind
None, or thin, soft, sometimes bloomy, porcelain-white
Size
0.250–2.0 kg; square tile or small cylinder by area
  1. Prepare the milk
  2. Set the curd
  3. Cut and drain the curd
  4. Mould and salt
  5. Ripen
Teviotdale PDOBorders
Milk
cow milk, (Jersey)

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Tilsiter (German)East Prussia origin

smear, small openings

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
~2–5 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Tilsiter (Swiss)Thurgau

red, green, yellow labels for milk type

Milk
cow milk
Ripening
≥2 mo

Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).

Numbers come from cited sources and carry a label that says how each is known. How this atlas is made