Chaumes

The chaumes is a mild French cheese, which is industrially produced from pasteurized cow's milk and marketed with a rustic image. Producer are the fromageries of chaumes ( Bongrain Group ), one of the largest cheese producer in France that produce cow 's and sheep's milk cheese and blue cheese. Company headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in the region of Aquitaine.

The mature chaumes only four weeks and during this time lubricated with fluids containing Rotschmierebakterien, especially Brevibacterium linens. Through colonization with the Rotschmierebakterien he gets a spicy, orange to reddish brown, elastic surface that is slightly sticky and gritty - grainy. Normally, the cheeses have a diameter of from twenty to twenty-three inches. The fat content in the dry matter is fifty percent. The rind is washed.

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