Cheese Database

Colby-Jack cheese vs Marble Cheese

Colby-Jack cheese, field guide plate
Colby-Jack cheese, photographed

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.

Marble Cheese

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Hard
Type
Pressed
Rind
No rind
Country
United Kingdom

Marble cheese is a name from the United Kingdom for cow's milk cheese that shows streaks or patches of more than one color. The usual path is to mix two curds, often white cheddar curd and orange cheddar curd tinted with annatto. The cut face looks marbled, and the cheese underneath is usually a hard pressed style. It is a way of making, not one dairy's private recipe. A block can taste mild or sharp depending on the cheddar that went into it.