Colby vs Colby-Jack cheese
Colby
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
- Place
- Wisconsin
Colby is a washed-curd cow's-milk cheese first made in Colby, Wisconsin, in 1885. Joseph F. Steinwand, a local cheesemaker, devised it and named it for the town.
Colby-Jack cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
- Place
- Wisconsin
Colby-Jack is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Wisconsin, in the United States, made by mixing Colby curds with Monterey Jack curds. The two stay in separate orange and white pieces, so a slice looks marbled. Both parent cheeses are mild and moist, and the blend keeps that easy character. It is a young cheese, sold in blocks and loaves rather than as a long-aged wheel. There is no strong rind flavor, because most pieces are rindless.