cut cheese

When sliced cheese are cheeses referred to in well with slices can be cut. Most semi-hard cheeses ripen between four and six weeks. Their consistency is predominantly smooth to firm and their variety of flavors ranges from mild to strong.

Sliced ​​cheese does not mature as long as hard cheese . Due to their shorter ripening time, they contain more water than hard cheese, which makes them softer and easier to cut than this. The water content in the fat-free cheese mass (wff) is greater than 54% and at most 63%, so that some types of both cheese groups have similar properties. Sliced ​​cheese is popular for breakfast and in the evening as cold cuts with bread . They can also be used very well in salads or when gratinating dishes ( gratins ).

Representatives are:

• Appenzeller
• Butter cheese
• Edam
• Gouda cheese
• Kashkawal (in the Balkans )
• Leerdammer
• Morbier
• Steppe cheese
• Subenhara
• Tilsiter
• Valais raclette sliced ​​cheese
• Wilstermarsch cheese

literature

• Heinrich G. Neuhaus: Cheeses from Europe. Matthaes Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-875-16622-1 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Sliced ​​cheese  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cheese Ordinance (last version from December 2010) (PDF; 97 kB).