Asiago vs Silter
Asiago
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Veneto
- Status
- PDO
Asiago is a cow's-milk cheese from the Asiago plateau in Veneto and from the protected zone around it. Pressato is young, pale, and mild. D'allevo is aged until it is firm and sharper.
Silter
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Lombardy
Silter is a hard cow's milk cheese from the Alpine valleys of Lombardy in northern Italy. Makers start with raw milk and skim off part of the cream, so the paste is firm rather than rich. The wheels carry a hard rind that turns from straw yellow toward brown. The name refers to the local room where cheese is left to mature. It is a mountain cheese meant to keep, not a fresh curd.