Coulommiers vs Olivet cendré
Coulommiers
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Bloomy rind
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- France
Coulommiers is a soft ripened cheese from France. It is made from cow's milk and finished with a white bloomy rind. The wheel is smaller and thicker than a large Brie, so it ripens through the center more readily. The paste is pale and creamy when ripe. It belongs to the same broad family as Brie and Camembert, but it keeps its own name and size.
Olivet cendré
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
Olivet cendré is a soft cow's milk cheese from France. The word cendré means that ash covers the cheese, and the rind turns grey from that coat. The paste is ivory, supple, and a little moist, with a delicate earthy taste. Makers have long ripened the rounds in ash, once from burned vine cuttings and now often from vegetable charcoal. It is a table cheese, sold in small cylinders for cutting and spreading.