Cheese Database

Burrata vs Mozzarella

Burrata

Milk
Cow
Texture
Fresh
Type
Stretched curd
Rind
No rind
Country
Italy
Place
Puglia

Burrata is a pouch of stretched cow's-milk curd filled with cream and shreds of curd. It comes from Andria, in Puglia, and it is a cheese of the twentieth century.

Mozzarella

Milk
Cow
Texture
Fresh
Type
Stretched curd
Rind
No rind
Country
Italy
Place
Southern Italy

Mozzarella is a stretched-curd cheese. On this page it is the cow's-milk cheese, fior di latte. Mozzarella di Bufala Campana is a separate cheese, made from water buffalo milk, when it carries that protected name.