the.com/sharp cheddar
Cheddar that aged long enough to develop attitude and lose patience for blandness
means Cheddar cheese aged long enough to develop a pronounced, tangy bite, as opposed to the milder taste of younger, 'mild' cheddar.
from "Cheddar" comes from the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England, whose limestone caves once provided the cool, steady conditions for aging the cheese. "Sharp" here borrows the old sense of a flavor that seems to prick or cut the tongue — the same metaphor that lets us call a taste "piercing" — and that sharpness simply increases with age, as the cheese's natural acids and broken-down proteins concentrate over months in storage.
- sharpness source
- Tang comes from extended aging, not added spice
- crunch crystals
- Aged cheddar grows crunchy calcium lactate crystals
- the verb
- Cheddaring stacks curds to drain whey
- natural color
- Bright orange comes from annatto seeds, not milk
- birthplace
- Named for an English village's cave-aged origins
cabot clothbound cheddar — vermont creamery aged 12 months, won american cheese society awards multiple times
montgomery's cheddar — somerset england farmhouse cheddar, pdo protected since 1996
keen's cheddar — west country farmhouse cheddar made in somerset for over 300 years
clothbound cheddar tillamook — oregon dairy cooperative, sharp aged variety produced since 1909