Limburger vs Stinking Bishop
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.
Stinking Bishop
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Stinking Bishop is a semi-soft washed-rind cheese from the United Kingdom, made with pasteurized cow's milk. The paste is pale and creamy, and the rind runs from orange to gray-pink. Makers wash that rind with perry, a fermented pear drink, which feeds the bacteria that create the famous smell. The name is shared with the pear used for that perry. The aroma is strong, but the flavor inside is milder than the smell suggests.