Cheese ripening, alternatively cheese maturation or affinage, is a process in cheesemaking. It is responsible for the distinct flavour of cheese, and through...

and salt content. Soft cheeses include soft-ripened cheeses, some blue cheeses, some pasta filata cheeses, and fresh cheeses. They are often spreadable...

preservative so the cheese does not spoil through the process of brine salting or dry salting for 24–48 hours. The final step is ripening the cheese by aging it...

language) is a semisoft, washed-rind, smear-ripened Italian cheese that is named after Val Taleggio. The cheese has a thin crust and a strong aroma, but...

Emmental Cheese". Journal of Dairy Science. 1 (2): 91–113. doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(17)94362-0. P.L.H. McSweeney, Biochemistry of Cheese Ripening: Introduction...

Washed-rind or smear-ripened cheeses are cheeses which are periodically treated with brine or mold-bearing agents. This encourages the growth of certain...

French: [ɡʁɥijɛʁ] ; German: Greyerzer, Italian: Groviera) is a hard Swiss cheese that originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne...

-⁠om-, French: [kamɑ̃bɛʁ] ) is a moist, soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow's milk cheese. It was first made in the late 18th century in Camembert, Normandy...

is a key factor in the fermentation process and ripening of cheese. Since 1979, studies of French cheese have led to the identification of correlations...

weeks. It ripens faster than other cheeses made in the Netherlands. Maasdam has internal voids, or holes from the ripening process, and a smooth, yellow rind...