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@blindarchershaunhenderson3769

Жыл бұрын

You really need to check out Canterbury here in the UK, England's holiest city, but you would also enjoy looking up Wensleydale where Wensleydale cheese is made in North Yorkshire

@neilgayleard3842

Жыл бұрын

Somerset is famous for its cider.

@gillianrimmer7733

Жыл бұрын

Cave aged cheddar is a wonderful cheese. It's a softer texture than ordinary vintage or mature cheddar, but a more complex flavour. It's expensive, but for a cheeseboard or special occasion it's worth the extra money.

@flemishhaggis3474

Жыл бұрын

I've been following Tread the Globe for a while now. They are currently travelling around your continent. Some great content

@gillianrimmer7733

Жыл бұрын

@mikka fjallraven, I was born in North Yorkshire, about a mile from Mother Shipton's cave. Things take a lot longer than a few weeks to 'fossilise'- more like 6 months to a year. It's the water from the limestone above that seeps through and leaves deposits on anything that's being continually soaked in it. It's the same way stalactites are formed. It's a very slow process. They aren't really fossilised, they just get a coating of limestone that makes them hard on the outside. And, it's not in the cave proper, it's a separate bit called the Petrifying Well. Hundreds of years ago, people thought it was magic - but we now know what causes it.

Now you can understand why we are so precious about Cheddar cheese. It upsets us when we hear phrases like "American Cheddar" and you see a bright orange fake piece of rubber purporting to be cheddar. Once you've had proper Cheddar you'll realise why we are so proud of it.

@marydavis5234

Жыл бұрын

Actually the yellow cheddar cheese sold in the US, is not actually cheese, as it says on the label , a cheese by product and I live 4 miles from the Crowley cheese factory and they actually make white cheddar cheese.

@kevinclayton1656

Жыл бұрын

Real cheese takes year's decades to mature and the difference between the cheap shit called cheese and real cheese is night and day when you taste it

@GaryNoone-jz3mq

8 ай бұрын

The cheese was named after the place. Not the other way around. American cheddar can not be cheddar, as it is made in American, not Cheddar.

I love the assumption that a town was named after a cheese and not the other way around 😂

@sam-bp4uh

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that lol the village came first lol

@kimberlytrading2344

Жыл бұрын

The town was first and the cheese was named after the town where it was first made

@neil364

5 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😂😂

The town isn't named after cheese. The cheese is named after the town :)

@charlielouise2428

Жыл бұрын

There are lots of towns whose food is named after them, like Bakewell and Sandwich 🥪

Cheddar Gorge is also where the oldest human skeleton was found in Britain. A 9000 year old skeleton of a man , unoriginally named the "Cheddar Man"

@SuperFifthman

Жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in Cheddar, my children went to the local school & were taught history by someone who was found to be a direct descendant of ‘Cheddar Man’ through his DNA!

@blodwynshaver

Жыл бұрын

There was a 33.000 + year old skeleton found in Goat Cave on the Gower Peninsula. Initially named the red lady of Paviland when it was discovered 200 hundred years ago, it proved to be a ritual burial of a man. The burial was done before the last ice age, and was scattered with red ochre to dye the bones when the flesh was gone. He was found with mammoth bones amongst the grave goods, though we don't know what had already been taken, as there were stories locally of the burial for years before the 19th century archaeologists went in there. It is reputed to be the oldest ceremonial burial known in weatern Europe.

@jonathanmorgan1882

Жыл бұрын

@@blodwynshaver Rumours that they were the first person from Birmingham to take a holiday in the Gower remain unsubstantiated.

@catherinerobilliard7662

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperFifthman I remember hearing that on the BBC news. Imagine finding out you live where your ancestor lived in the Mesolithic age, and you can visit him in the local museum.

@johngardiner6800

Жыл бұрын

There is a teacher at the local school who is a direct descendant of Cheddar man still living in the village.

We met some Americans a few years ago who were adamant that cheddar cheese was "invented" (their word) in Wisconsin, USA. The process of cheddaring, which makes this kind of hard cheese as flavourful and characteristic as it is has been used in the UK for many hundreds of years. Cheddar is the world's most widely produced cheese and can range from mild, awful waxy stuff to a rich and flavourful delicacy. Here in the UK you can find wide varieties with taste profiles ranging from mild through mature, extra mature and vintage, all of which depend on the time the cheese has been allowed to mature. There is so much to do around Cheddar and Somerset generally, ranging from the gorge to the regency city of Bath and Glastonbury Tor (where there is a thorn tree allegedly grown from the staff of Joseph or Arimathea).

@Beedo_Sookcool

Жыл бұрын

HA! Cripes, they do love to re-write history and put themselves in the center of everything, don't they? Which reminds me: "Churchill: The Hollywood Years" -- bloody funny film on that subject.

This is why all the countries that claim to make Cheddar cheese, they don't, they have a knock off version.

@Beedo_Sookcool

Жыл бұрын

It's only really Cheddar cheese if it's made in the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England. Otherwise, it's just sparkling sharp cheese. 😉

Hey - Thanks for reacting to our video - Some of our followers messaged and told us - The Cheddar cheese you all know was from this village and originally it was made in the caves. This video was made at the beginning or our adventures so funny to watch the old videos !! - we just spent the past year exploring North America :) - Have fun in the UK. - Chris & Marianne x

American reaction to the Cheddar Gorge: 'Why did you guys named a gorge after some cheese?'

@Britonbear

4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the movie A Fish Like Wanda when Otto asks, "why would you name a girl (Porche) after a car".

Of course there is cheese, where do you think Cheddar cheese gets its name? The town wasnt named after the cheese!

I grew up in Somerset, and been to Cheddar many times. There was no refrigeration 100's of years ago, and as the video says, the caves are the perfect temperature for maturing cheese. This is where the cheese gets its name.

We were visiting England in 2011 and friends of ours in Bristol took us by car through Cheddar Gorge on the way to Glastonbury. We didn't stop in the town of Cheddar, but we did see shaggy, long-haired goats standing halfway up some of the cliff faces inside the gorge. And yes, it was a lot like the older highways through the Smoky Mountains in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Carolinas looked back in the 1960s when I was a child.

True cheddar cheese has to come from cheddar caves as the Name has legal protection under the United nations produce geographical protection regulation. This also includes Melton Mowbray Pork pies from Leicestershire england

@philthedogg

Жыл бұрын

And Cornish pasties

@peterjackson4763

Жыл бұрын

Cheddar soes not have name protection. West Country Farmhouse Cheddar is protected, but so is Orkney Scottish Island Cheddar

@Beedo_Sookcool

Жыл бұрын

@@peterjackson4763 Yeah, they've really dropped the ball on geographic protected status for things like Cheddar cheese and Devonshire clotted cream. There was some company out of Wiltshire called "The Devon Clotted Cream Compnay," selling some seriously sub-par stuff and ruining the name. I think they've been forced to change their name since, but that doesn't erase the bad experiences and associations people had with their jars of spoilt yuck.

@swordy21

7 ай бұрын

Cheddar village gave its name to the “process of making this type of cheese” ie Cheddaring. Which is the way of draining, cutting, stacking and turning the curds. Which is why Cheddar cheese can be made anywhere using this process, even New Zealand. But as a resident of the area, I do feel the locally produced products have that little extra. There is also cave matured cheddar using the caves at Wookey Hole, near Wells, just 8 miles down the road. The other local product to make a reaction about would be Cider & Scrumpy, and the resulting fun that can ensue. ❤️

That's so funny! I've only just finished a series of books set in Somerset, and one of them was based in Cheddar, with the gorge, caves, Jacob's Ladder and the cliff walk featuring heavily. You know cheddar cheese was named after this area, right? The town wasn't named after the cheese! Great video, as always. Love you two x

Smokey Mountains! Oh dear. I stayed overnight in Sevierville TN intending to drive into the Smokies the following day. Didn't make it. I had a heart attack instead and ended up in hospital in Knoxville. (Thank goodness for travel insurance!!!) That was 23 years ago and I'm still fine so a great big thank you to the medical team in that Tennessee hospital. I've yet to make that trip to the Smokey Mountains but it's a long way from Australia 🙂. I have, however, been to Cheddar Gorge. The counties of Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall are among my favourite in the UK. Thank you for posting, ladies.

Cheddar gorge is a mecca for English cheese lovers It a great place to visit.

Girls, I've lived in the UK for over 70 years and I still have places to see. Best you can hope for is to scratch the surface and see the most popular locations. Good luck!

@garystroud6153

Жыл бұрын

First went to Cheddar aged 10, it was just a village then. Close by is Wookey Hole cave, a much larger cave system.

Somerset in general is a fantastic county to visit, OK Cheddar is a bit touristy and Glastonbury is the same , but the Mendip Hills, which is where Cheddar is situated, The Quantock Hills and between them The Somerset Levels make for a very varied county. Oh, and the people are incredibly friendly. It's one of my favourite counties, although it is a bit overlooked by people in a rush to reach to reach Devon and Cornwall. Well worth a visit.

@claudiaphillips7063

Жыл бұрын

That’s because Cornwall is the best. 😂😂😂 Guess where I live 😜🤣

@mariahoulihan9483

Жыл бұрын

you left out Cider. lol.

@wendygraham6863

Жыл бұрын

@@mariahoulihan9483 dont forget the clotted cream

@mariahoulihan9483

Жыл бұрын

@@wendygraham6863 not strictly Somerset, is it? Devonshire.

@lilacfloyd

Жыл бұрын

@@claudiaphillips7063 Devon?

A little true story for you... When i was about 20 there was a group of about 15 of us that used to hang around together in a Wiltshire town. One day one of our group called around and asked if i had seen two of our friends because nobody had seen them for a few days and they werent at home. We started asking around but nobody had seen them. That night on the local news there was a camera shot of 2 motorcycles parked outside a cave at Cheddar and there was a search and rescue operation in action because somebody had reported that the bikes had been outside the cave for a couple of days. Of course we all recognised those bikes! It was a big relief (and hilarious) when they were found cold and wet after spending 3 days and nights lost in the caves but to this day they have never lived it down. We are all now in our 50's and they are still refered to as Chris Cheese and Andy Cheese to anybody that knows them. Andys own kids don't even call him dad. He's known to them as "Cheddar" and they weren't even born when it happened. 😂 That's how deep banter runs to a Brit.

Many countries in Europe age cheese and some meat products in caves. Certainly France, Spain and Italy do as well as the UK. They’re cool, dark, deep and have natural microbes etc to help with age, taste and even adding blue veins to the product.

@webtoedman

Жыл бұрын

Roquefort for one.

Morning girls. I live in Cheddar, and the South West of England is a beautiful place.

@kimberlytrading2344

Жыл бұрын

I agree

I love the cheddar caves. It's like being in a Fantasyland. I put my hand in a pool of water and it was so soft that it didn't even feel wet. I tasted it and it was sweet and it was so pure and clean that I could drink it straight from the pool. ✌️♥️🇬🇧

I loved the video . Very informative and you two are fantastic

Cheddar is 40 minutes away from me, half an hour on a good day. Cheddar Gorge is so pretty and very dog friendly, so we take our dog whenever we visit. Yes, both the Cave-Aged Cheddar and Marshfield Ice Cream (also West Country) are delicious. In Somerset, we say Cheddar Cheese isn't proper Cheddar, unless it's made in a 30 mile radius of Cheddar town. I highly recommend visiting the rest of Somerset, including Glastonbury (witch town, home of the Tor and one of the UK's largest music festivals), Bath (Jane Austen, Roman Baths), Wells (England's Smallest City and film set of Hot Fuzz) and the Quantocks (Dunster Castle, West Somerset Railway and part of the Exmoor National Park). Wookey Hole, a village with Caves also, is just down the road from Cheddar too.

Good morning ladies 😘 A story from my childhood. My mum and dad were in the Cheddar Caves, crawling through the old cave system when my mum, who was in front, panicked and declared She was stuck! So, my dad bit her bum and she shot through the narrow place. Typical of my dad 😊

@TheNatashaDebbieShow

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@sarahingham2758

Жыл бұрын

That's hilarious your poor mum bless her, wonder what she thought it was

@michaelatkins4501

Жыл бұрын

That must of been the spot known as the smarties tube I haven’t been in years but found memories caving there 😊

@johncarpenter3008

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahingham2758 Knowing my dad was behind her, I suspect she well knew what it was!

Watching this video after having come from the refrigerator downstairs and noticing I had completely run out of my block of cheddar cheese 😢Oh the ironic timing of this upload!!! 😭

Cave aged cheddar cheese is absolutely yummy. I highly recommend it.

great video girls be bpth learnt new thing sin this video and look forward to your vlog when your in uk

I've been to Wookey Hole nearby. One of things pointed out, beyond the constant temperature in either summer or winter, was that the Stalactites had a thick black line indicating when they used to burn torches for light.

The first recorded cheddar cheese from Cheddar England dates back to the 12th Century, the Cheddar village was called Cheddar because in old English Cheddar comes from the word ceodor meaning deep dark cavity. The caves looked so cool, never been, looks great. i would love to get out of towns and cities and just live in a little village like this in the country.

Great video ladies, and I loved the picture shown at 18:31 "Cheddar & Caerphilly cheese stores", as my home town is Caerphilly x

Thank you ladies. It's been a few decades since I drove through the Gorge and I always regret we didn't stop as we were on our way to somewhere else. Every video I learn something new with you two.

I went to cheddar gorge last year, for the first time. I'd never seen pics of it beforehand and was overwhelmed when i went! It's one of the most awesome places you can visit in the uk. The caves in the area are well worth a visit too.

So much to do around Somerset and on holiday down the road from Cheddar there was so much fresh produce you, were spoilt, great destination.

Been here a few times it's stunning x

Love your videos, you have a new subscriber 🎉. I live 5 miles away from Cheddar Gorge, so was thrilled to find you had a look at it, you should have popped in for a ‘Cuppa!’. 💕

I came from Somerset I lived just down there road from here the gorge is amazing and that's why so many people come to visit I used to go caving on the Mendip hills It's one of best place to visit in the world

Having family who live equidistant between Yeovil and Cheddar is a blessing. I get to visit whenever I want. Never gets old. Cheese on one side, cider on the other. Bliss. The scenery is quite nice too.

Well, I've never ever been to Cheddar but I'm going to go now. Looks great.!!

The ice cream is lovely Debbie xx

I am a proud Welshman, but also of Somerset ancestry we have traced my family history back to the 1620's in the village of Coxley south of Cheddar between Wells and Glastonbury. Love that part of the World.

We went in our camper van and stayed on a site after Covid. It was lovely you can hike up the gorge and can actually see Glastonbury Tor, it wasn’t madly overrun with tourists it’s stunning. Wild goats are a bit stinky though 😂 Get to The New Forest as well

Morning ladies. So happy to see Cheddar Gorge coming up. Haven't been there for years but still remember how lovely it was.

yup, been to/through/over the Smoky Mountains

I live in the south of Bristol about a 30 minute drive to cheddar in the winter a bit longer in the summer with all the tourists

Good morning ladies I live in cheddar and my family own a b&b next village over so when you get over we can sort you with a room to explore this area not far away from Glastonbury or bath or Bristol

Stunning, there is also similar caves in South Wales in the Brecon Beacons national Park called DAN-YR OGOF Caves which also has Dinosaur Park

Brilliant video today ladies. I learned a lot. So the caves were early refrigerators

I live I Somerset just a few miles from Cheddar, we go often, it's stunning. I've been to the smokey mountains in Tennessee and yes, it's similar....

Somerset is a beautiful county with high places like Cheddar Gorge, and then low places like the Somerset Levels, which become flooded. I Have just moved from near London to Somerset and live in the south of the county. The last time I visited Cheddar Gorge was sixty years ago, when I was at school in the next county, Dorset.

Cheddar caves have a good potholing routes,, as does wells,wooky hole not far away From cheddar,, on same hill routes. very Very suffocating squeeze it is,, literally u have to worm it wriggle,, did it years ago,,was exciting,, enjoyed It .been in caves on the island of Crete and Turkey too,, underground is an amazing wonder of a place,,the hidden world,✨love cheddar cheese🙂 good episode,, brought back memories

Omg my county of Somerset. Love Cheddar gorge such an amazing place to see.. and drave through

The caves are picked because they have just the right temperature and humidity for the cheese. On the subject of cheese (iLOVE IT!) many cheeses had to by law be made from pasteurised milk. There are many that do not and they ask all their customers to keep it secret! In London, Jeremy Street, there is a cheese shop, all it sells is just cheese! Every type and nationality, over 200 in all! The whole building wreaks of cheese! I'm sure there must be somewhere within San Francisco, with all the many national areas, Little Italy, China Town etc Just love Fresh Cheese, with real crusty bread and a pint of English Beer! to die for!

I live in Somerset about half an hour from Cheddar. My friend owns the mouse hole cafe. Nice place to visit if you get the chance. Somerset has a lot to see

Thanks lady's - hope the weather/snow ain't getting you down - take care yeah ❤😎❤

Hi i live in Somerset .a small seaside called weston super mare.a few miles from chedder a beautiful place ....your reaction to them driving made me laugh .. really enjoy your channel

I love going to cheddar to see cheese made and also seeing sweets nade

Don't forget you got to try real Summerset scrumpy Cider with your Cheddar cheese in a ploughman's. Lovely anytime.

@woodentops1394

Жыл бұрын

Even more so at a wurzels concert. Oh my poor head the next day.

I'm amazed that someone who once lived in Cheddar calls it a town, Cheddar is a village.

Can’t wait for you to come over, hopefully will get to meet you at some point, and me and my American partner can show you around my home county of Nottinghamshire, or York where I used to live, or the Peaks near where we live now Thought you’d enjoy this video, I briefly worked making Stilton in my late teenage years - something can only be called Stilton here (and in the EU - still applies) if it’s made within a small area of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (it’s like Champagne in the Champagne region and of course Cheddar in Cheddar…)

Cheddar itself is a bit touristy (and hard to park!) but it doing the caves is fun. There are some great places to go up the gorge, Black Rock is worth a visit and just to the east you can get awesome views from the hills overlooking Draycott (just below the gliding club). It's possible to do Glastonbury as well in a day out from Bristol. Other places to see are Brean Down which juts out into the Severn estuary. you can virtually explore these places in Google Earth.

I often buy Cave Aged Cheddar. Lovely.

Great place to Visit.. Probably one of the nicest cheese I ever had was the cave matured cheddar.

years ago you cou;d also buy scrumpy goes so well with cheese

@catherinerobilliard7662

Жыл бұрын

It’s still for sale in local farms, nothing like the cheap imitation you can buy elsewhere

Look as well at the nearby Wookey Hole - its another pre-historic cave system with victorian paper company museum and you can go on a guided scooba dive through the under water sections.

I live in Somerset but haven't been there for yrs can remember going up Jacobs ladder as a child was easy back then now I'm nearly 50 I think I would stop a few times to have a breather lol

I love a bit of "Cave Aged" Cheddar

If you like this, you may like Bourton in the Water (which has a model village based on the village, including its own model village in a model village ad infinitum. You might also like the Plym Valley railway (our grown son, Jack, works there)

My home county I still live in Somerset 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

We drove down the gorge, stopped at this little siding and I got out to take a photo of the sheep.. fell sideways on to my arse because it's so steep 😂

Cave cheese is amazing! It's so strong and tasty. Living so close, we eat it all the time

You have got to come over we have loads of places to visit in the UK, sadly Natasha if you don't drink the Highlands whiskey trail is not for you. It is advisable not to come during the school holidays in the UK as prices almost double and any tourist attraction is crowded.

THE BEST CHEDDAR IS THE CHEDDAR AGED IN THE CAVE...YUMMY! I love somerset....it is my heart and soul. xx

Also Rockfort (french cheese) is aged in caves. Lov the show✌🏽❤

Lovely video, just cheesed off as I've not been in that area for years went caving there as a lad

Good morning ladies..Somerset is lovely, but I have never been to the Gorge.. Have a great day!

Been to Cheddar gorge many times, Englands Grand Canyon, hahahaha😊

Man that bought back memories lol. My mother took us to those caves. Back then you could go in a small boat to what was called the witches cave..... It was so dark and the water frightened me lol. When I was older we went there on a school trip. Lefts at 4am and got back 3am the next day lol. Much better organised and less scary lol lol lol The tours are so much better than they used to be!! Really enjoyed this one girls, thank you! Oh if you do go to the caves pop over to Wiltshire and visit Lacock .... Its an incredible place ... We lived just outside it in a part 14th and a part 15th century house!! That house is now a B&B but up i the attics and I was scared of those rooms ....It was haunted ;-) Oh Debbie milking cows s easy! They are such beautiful patient animals With cheese if you buy mature Cheddar its taken a year or longer t get that deep rich taste. It does it better in cold and dark places lol Those caves I remember as being very cold and very deep and dark lol lol lol Mind I wonder if my grandkids would like to go there lol.

I love that drive up the gorge. I cycled it after a block of cheese. It nearly finished me off. 🌝

I live in Somerset (Taunton), less than an hour from Cheddar. If you come over I would be honoured to take you both there!

I has a very long night when I traveled to England the first time. I was assigned to a unit in RAF Mildenhall. As tired as I was, I was fully awake when three guys from my new unit showed up and drove me through the English country side at 55 mph on the "wrong side of a two lane road.

I lived there but yes plenty of tourists but you ha e to have them for the funds, what you may not see is the quarry truck that drive around & the big trucks that go thru to Wells, Wookey & Glastonbury 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

Hello from cheddar! So weird to see this in my KZread feed! One of my family members helped make that mural!

Cheese and Wine are stored in caves, for cheese, it is stored in caves because of the constant cold temperature of the caves, even in summer. There were no refrigeration units at the time so it quickly went off. Now it's stored there because of the unique flavour that the caves bring to the cheese

You've been to more places here than I have lol and I live here ❤️ I live in a tourist town and love seeing the tourists it's always busy here as I'm on the coast there's always a 'weekend' celebrating something - lifeboats - tractors - 60's music - 40's weekend - 80's music - folk week - Goth weekend - steampunk weekend etc I love it 👍

At 03:05 there's a road sign asking drivers to be careful , at the top of that sign is a picture of the medieval cross thing further into the village.........that was, a few years ago, partially demolished by a taxi. Probably why they put it on the sign....🤔

Cheddar is also famous for its strawberry 🍓yes I have it so delicious

YES the cheese really is that good

Debbie mentioned a glider. there is a gliding site on the hills above the gorge

And it is Burns Night. Haggis for supper. With Cheddar Cheese the real stuff.

Ive seen The Smokey Mountains on tv and yes I know what you mean .: )

Cheddar is the #1 in my book, and I love so many types. On that, Roquefort is a beautiful veined cheese from the caves of Roquefort in France. I somehow am not surprised that your faces registered the thought that "are you sure cheese isn't just manufactured in a factory, to flavour order, really"?

I was there a few years ago and if you paid an extra £40or £50 you could go adventure caving with a guide into much deeper parts of the caves that are out of bounds and it was amazing squeezing through little gaps that feel claustrophobic only to crawl out into huge spaces like being inside of a church full of stalagmites, along the way the guide leaves little tags in specific spots so if something goes wrong they know where you was last. It was well worth the money and anybody reasonably fit can do it, we were in the caves for almost an hour and a half all told and on that day it was just the guide my girlfriend and myself.

When we went to Somerset to visit my cousin's, we went on an open top bus tour through the Gorge, I wonder if that's still going? It was many years ago

When you go to the Yorkshire Dales, to to a village in Wensleydale, called Hawes. You can see cheese making on an industrial scale, you can buy the cheese made in Creamery and they have a really wonderful restaurant well worth a visit.

I live in Thailand but when ever I go back to England I always visit Cheddar, the cheese is keep in the caves because the temp all year around stay about 60F. It's better in the off season. I love to talk with the older locals who have so many stories, drink a pint of scrumpy. Walk up the Gorge. But if you do get to that area don't miss Wookey Hole caves, and museum only 8 miles away.

Loved watching this! I haven't been to Cheddar for 30 years so it was nice to see things that I still remember from all those years ago. Makes me want to go back and explore it all again!

we can all buy houses and be neighbours here haha ; ) I love cheese so much! : p

So here is a guy from The Netherlands home of the cheese called Gouda 🙂 Yes Gouda is a place in the province South Holland in The Netherlands and the area around it has lots of grassy meadows for black and white cows to roam around and eat the fresh grass 🙂 These cows produce ample milk to which "stremsel" is added. Stremsel is basically some specific bacterial culture that makes the proteins (and fat) separate from the whey (milk fluid). After a while the protein mass is pressed together in specific forms and the fresh cheese is there. It is white at that moment and soft and every cheese will go through specific additional steps to make the different kinds of cheeses. The duration of each step and the circumstances of maturation determine the specific taste and mouth-feel. During maturation the cheese will harden and some cheeses as rubbed with a saline solution, some are getting stabbed with blue molds or smeared with white molds and others are covered with herbs and spices 🙂 Cheese can be stored and matured in shacks, caves (as they have a constant temperature and moist percentage and in some caves the cheese gets molded which adds to the specific taste. Dutch Gouda cheese is matured in the form of big "wheels" and covered in a thin plastic layer and matures to "Young" , "Medium matured", "Matured" to "Old" and finally "crumble - brokkelkaas" (from short to long term maturation). Each step older adds to the taste and character of the cheese.

im eating cheese right now, cheddar cheese haha. Love from Wales