Quesillo vs String cheese
Quesillo
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Stretched curd
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Honduras
Quesillo, in Honduras, is a fresh cow's milk cheese made by stretching the curd into long strands. The paste is white, moist, and semi-soft, and it pulls apart in strings when it is warm. Flavor is mild, lightly salty, and milky, with none of the bite of an aged cheese. Cooks melt it into everyday foods, especially filled tortillas and shared hot pots. The same word names other cheeses and snacks in Latin America, so the country on the label matters.
String cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Stretched curd
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
String cheese is a snack cheese from the United States, sold as thin sticks that peel into long strands. It is a stretched cow's milk cheese, close to low-moisture mozzarella, with a mild and slightly salty taste. The sticks have no rind. Each piece is meant to be pulled apart by hand. The form is as important as the flavor, because the strands are the point of the product.