Grana Padano vs Sbrinz
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.
Sbrinz
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
Sbrinz is a very hard cow's milk cheese from Switzerland. It is among the hardest cheeses in the Swiss dairy tradition, with a dense paste and a natural rind. The wheels are large, and the cheese is aged until it breaks rather than bends. Cooks grate it, shave it into thin curls, or eat it in small hard pieces. Buyers in northern Italy have long known the name, because the wheels moved south across the Alps, but the make itself is Swiss.