Mont des Cats vs Munster
Mont des Cats
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- France
Mont des Cats is a semi-soft cow's milk cheese from France. The paste is pressed, smooth, and supple, with a few small holes, and a washed rind colors the outside orange to red. The taste is mild, milky, and lightly savory, closer to a gentle table cheese than to a pungent washed rind. People eat it in slices and also melt it. The name belongs to this French cheese, not to a blue and not to a fresh curd.
Munster
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Alsace and the Vosges
- Status
- PDO
Munster is a washed-rind cow's-milk cheese from Alsace and the Vosges, and a protected name. The rind is orange. The smell is strong. The paste is softer and milder than the smell suggests.