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cheeses
Assortment of cheeses.
list of cheeses
Humans have been enjoying cheese for about as long as we have been domesticating milk-producing animals. Cheese making is a complicated art that balances microbes, environmental conditions, and technical processes to create a novel and delicious product. The following is a list of cheeses, classified according to hardness and ripening method.
soft cheeses
- ripened with rennet only
- ripened with bacteria, enzymes, and surface microorganisms
semihard and semisoft cheeses
- ripened with bacteria and enzymes
- ripened with eye-producing bacteria and enzymes
- ripened with bacteria, enzymes, and surface microorganisms
- ripened with bacteria, enzymes, and blue mold
hard
- ripened with bacteria and enzymes
- ripened with eye-producing bacteria and enzymes
- Emmentaler (Swiss)
very hard
- ripened with bacteria and enzymes
other
- fermented with insects
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