A ripened cheese needs high humidity and the right temperature.

They used ripened cheese as a way of preserving extra milk.

Soft ripened cheeses should also be avoided by those most at risk.

For the best flavour, always bring soft ripened cheeses to room temperature.

Coliforms also decrease in number during aging of ripened cheese varieties.

Domestic ham at that, topped off with a wedge of overly ripened cheese.

Raw milk Camembert is, therefore, of particular concern relative to hard ripened cheeses.

For others, like soft ripened cheese, cutting is delayed while the gel continues to become firmer.

Cut grapes into small bunches and serve alongside wedges of soft, ripened cheese.

Information on the manufacture of mould ripened cheeses.

It is a semi-hard ripened cheese with reduced lactose content and soft consistency.

The exemption does not apply to the requirement to keep soft or mould ripened cheeses at safe temperatures.

Firm, ripened cheeses such as Cheddar or Swiss will keep for several months in their original package.

Ripening varies from nil for fresh cheese to 5 years for some hard ripened cheese.

For soft or semi-soft ripened cheeses take special precautions to avoid contamination of the sample by phosphatases that might be present on the surface.

Readers interested in more details on defects of surface ripened cheese are referred to Eck & Gillis, 2000.

High moisture varieties like soft ripened cheese are cut with 2 cm knives or the curd is simply broken sufficiently to be dipped into forms.

Yeasts are also used to produce kefir products, semi-soft ripened cheeses and fermented soy drinks.

Most matured or ripened cheeses contain little lactose since most is removed in the whey during manufacture.

Cheddar and American varieties are the only ripened cheeses which (in my view) are not drastically altered by film wrapped curing.

In Switzerland, in addition to milk, milk components can only be added to ripened cheeses, not to unripened varieties.

The soft mould ripened cheese has a distinct smooth, creamy flavour, developing a more pronounced flavour and savoury notes with age.

Pasteurization (63C, 30 min. or 72C, 16 s) is generally considered the safest alternative, but the full flavour of traditional ripened cheese can not be achieved.

Ripened cheese varieties containing herbs are traditional in Turkey and have been manufactured for more than 200 years in the east and southeast of the country.

"Dry-aged fat is phenomenal," Mr. Burke said, touting its funky, ripened cheese qualities.