Chaumes

Chaumes

The Chaumes is a mild French cheese that is industrially produced from pasteurized cow's milk and marketed with a rustic image. The producers are the Fromageries des Chaumes ( Savencia group, formerly known as Bongrain), one of the largest cheese manufacturers in France, which produce cow and sheep's milk cheese as well as blue cheese . The company headquarters and production site are in the Aquitaine region .

The Chaumes only ripens for four weeks and during this time it is lubricated with liquids containing red smear bacteria , especially Brevibacterium linens . Colonization with the red smear bacteria gives it a spicy, orange to reddish brown, elastic surface that is slightly sticky and gritty and grainy. The cheeses are usually eight to eight inches in diameter. The fat content in the dry matter is fifty percent. The bark is washed.