Chechil vs String cheese
Chechil
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Stretched curd
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Armenia
- Place
- Armenian Highlands
Chechil is a brined string cheese from Armenia, made in the Armenian Highlands. Makers pull the curd into thin strands and braid or coil them into dense ropes. The usual milk is cow's milk, often skimmed, so the cheese is lean and chewy rather than rich. Some ropes are only salted in brine. Others are smoked, which adds a dry, brown edge to the braid.
String cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Stretched curd
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
String cheese is a snack cheese from the United States, sold as thin sticks that peel into long strands. It is a stretched cow's milk cheese, close to low-moisture mozzarella, with a mild and slightly salty taste. The sticks have no rind. Each piece is meant to be pulled apart by hand. The form is as important as the flavor, because the strands are the point of the product.