Grana Padano vs Raspadüra
Grana Padano
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Northern Italy
- Status
- PDO
Grana Padano is a hard cow's-milk grating cheese from a wide area of northern Italy. It belongs to the same family as Parmigiano-Reggiano, and it is a protected cheese.
Raspadüra
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
Raspadüra is an Italian way of serving young grana cheese, not a separate recipe with its own herd or mold. The name refers to scraping. A long flexible knife lifts very thin sheets from a cut wheel of cow's milk grana. The sheets curl as they come off, and they stay supple because the cheese is still young. Fully aged grating cheese is a different thing, even when it comes from the same family of wheels.