Basket cheese vs Hoop cheese
Basket cheese
Facts
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Levant
- Place
- originated in Turkey
Basket cheese is a fresh cheese of the Levant, and the style originated in Turkey. The Turkish name is sepet peyniri, which means cheese of the basket. Makers drain the curd in a woven basket, and the weave leaves a pattern on the surface. A fresh piece is mild, moist, and often almost without salt. A drier piece is firmer and only lightly salty, but it is still a young cheese.
Hoop cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Waxed or sealed
- Country
- United States
Hoop cheese is a plain cow's milk cheese from the United States. Makers press fresh curds in a round hoop, which gives the cheese its name and its wheel shape. The flavor stays mild, milky, and a little tangy, with none of the sharpness of a long-aged block. Shoppers still find it in some country stores and dairies, often under a coat of wax. It is a simple cheese, closer to a farm cheese than to a branded loaf.