Cheese Database

Maytag Blue cheese vs Stilton

Maytag Blue cheese

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
United States

Maytag Blue cheese is an American blue cheese made in Iowa, in the United States. It is a cow's milk wheel with blue-green veins through a pale, creamy paste. The taste is salty, sharp, and tangy, and the texture breaks into moist crumbs. Makers pierce the wheels so the blue mold can grow inside, which is what gives the cheese its color and bite. It is sold for the table and the kitchen, not as a mild slicing block.

Stilton, field guide plate
Stilton, photographed

Stilton

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-hard
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
United Kingdom
Place
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire
Status
PDO

Stilton is a blue cow's-milk cheese from England. The protected cheese is made only in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, or Nottinghamshire. It is not made in the village of Stilton.