Grevé vs Prästost
Grevé
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Waxed or sealed
- Country
- Sweden
Grevé is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Sweden, made in a style with large round eyes. The paste is pale yellow, smooth, and flexible, and a waxed rind protects the wheel. The taste is mild, slightly sweet, and nutty, closer to a gentle alpine cheese than to a sharp aged one. It is a Swedish table cheese, not Emmentaler from Switzerland and not a Norwegian Jarlsberg, even though the open texture looks related. Swedes use it for both cold slices and cooking.
Prästost
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Waxed or sealed
- Country
- Sweden
Prästost is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Sweden. The name means priest cheese, and it recalls an old custom of paying a church tithe in farm goods, including milk. Farms turned that milk into a small-eyed cheese that could keep. Today the style is made in dairies from pasteurized milk and sold across the country. The paste is yellow, smooth, and lightly open, with a savory tang.