Tomme Vaudoise vs Vacherin Mont d'Or
Tomme Vaudoise
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Bloomy rind
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- Switzerland
Tomme Vaudoise is a small soft cow's milk cheese from Switzerland. The name points to a Vaud tradition in the French-speaking part of the country, and the card gives Switzerland rather than one town. A thin white bloomy rind covers a pale paste that yields under a knife. Young rounds stay mild and milky, and riper rounds grow richer and more aromatic. It is meant for the table soon after it is made, not for long grating like a large alpine wheel.
Vacherin Mont d'Or
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Franche-Comté
Vacherin Mont d'Or is a soft cow's milk cheese from Franche-Comté, in France, packed in a round spruce box. A strap of spruce bark holds the wheel, because a ripe paste is too soft to stand on its own. The rind is washed, pink to amber, and often a little wrinkled. The interior is pale cream, and a ready wheel can be eaten with a spoon. A related cheese is made in Switzerland, but the cheese on this card is the one from Franche-Comté.