Handkäse vs Limburger
Handkäse
Facts
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Germany
Handkäse is a small sour-milk cheese from Germany. The name means hand cheese, because makers shaped the little rounds or bars by hand. It starts from sour skim-milk curd, so the paste is lean, tangy, and free of a rich cream taste. A young piece is mild and fairly firm. A ripe piece smells much stronger, with a yellow surface and a soft, sharp center.
Limburger
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- Netherlands
Limburger is a semi-soft washed-rind cheese from the Netherlands. It is made from cow's milk and shaped in small bricks with a moist orange rind. The smell is famously strong, while the paste inside is milder than that smell suggests. Salt, moisture, and the washed surface define it more than a sharp aged bite. Shops sell it for bread and hearty plates, not as a hard cheese for grating.