Guayanés cheese vs Queso blanco
Guayanés cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Stretched curd
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Venezuela
- Place
- Guayana Region
Guayanés cheese is a soft white cheese from the Guayana Region of Venezuela, made with cow's milk. It is a fresh cheese, salty and very moist, with a tender paste that can almost be eaten with a spoon. Producers heat and knead the curd, in the manner of a stretched fresh cheese, but they stop while the mass is still delicate. The usual piece is a soft ball or block, often cloth-wrapped, that weeps a little whey. It is an everyday cheese in Venezuela, not a long-aged wheel.
Queso blanco
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Mexico
Queso blanco means white cheese, and the name covers more than one fresh cheese. In US markets it usually means a pressed fresh cow's-milk cheese that holds its shape in a pan.