Category:Blue cheeses
Blue cheese
This wiki cheese category contains pictures and information on blue cheeses.
Further information
Blue cheese (or bleu cheese) is a general classification of cows' milk, sheep's milk, or goats' milk cheeses that have had Penicillium cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, blue-grey or blue-green mould, and carries a distinct smell. Some blue cheeses are injected with spores before the curds form and others have spores mixed in with the curds after they form. Blue cheeses are typically aged in a temperature-controlled environment such as a cave. In the European Union many blue cheeses such as Roquefort, Gorgonzola, and Stilton are, like wine, a protected designation of origin, meaning they can bear the name only if they have been made in a particular region in a certain country. Similarly, individual countries have protections of their own such as France's Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée and Italy's Denominazione di Origine Protetta. The characteristic flavour of blue cheeses tends to be sharp and a bit salty. The smell of this food is widely considered to be pungent, even smelling like feet. This is due to the types of bacteria encouraged to grow on the cheese; for example, the bacterium brevibacterium linens, responsible for the pungent smell of many blue cheeses, is also the cause of human foot odor. Due to this strong smell and flavour, blue cheeses are often considered an acquired taste.
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Pages in category ‘Blue cheeses’
The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total.
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- Badentoy Blue cheese
- Ballyblue cheese
- Barkham Blue cheese
- Barkham Chase cheese
- Bath Blue cheese
- Beacon Blue cheese
- Beenleigh Blue cheese
- Bellingham Blue cheese
- Bestbier Blue cheese
- Binham Blue cheese
- Birdwood Blue Heaven cheese
- Black Dub Blue cheese
- Blacksticks Blue cheese
- Blacksticks Silk cheese
- Blacksticks Velvet cheese
- Blacksticks White cheese
- Bleu d'Auvergne cheese
- Bleu de Bonneval cheese
- Bleu de brebis cheese
- Bleu de Bresse cheese
- Bleu de Gand cheese
- Bleu de Lozère cheese
- Bleu de Séverac cheese
- Bleu des Causses cheese
- Bleu du Haut-Jura, de Gex, de Septmoncel cheese
- Bleu du pays du Malzieu
- Bleu du Vercors cheese
- Bleu d’Arvieux cheese
- Blissful Buffalo cheese
- Blue Hills cheese
- Blue Monday cheese
- Blue Rathgore cheese
- Blue Wensleydale cheese
- Blue Whinnow cheese
- Blå (Blue) Castello cheese
- Brebiblu cheese
- Brendon Blue cheese
- Brinkworth Blue cheese
- Buffalo blue cheese
- Byland blue cheese
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Media in category ‘Blue cheeses’
The following 47 files are in this category, out of 47 total.
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Aura cheese.jpg 492 × 366; 40 KB
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Barkham Blue cheese.jpg 759 × 782; 29 KB
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Barkham Chase cheese.jpg 617 × 622; 15 KB
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Bath Blue cheese.jpg 532 × 399; 49 KB
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Beenleigh Blue cheese.jpg 532 × 399; 39 KB
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Bla (Blue) Castello cheese.jpg 650 × 488; 33 KB
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Bleu d'Auvergne cheese.jpg 384 × 368; 28 KB
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Bleu de Bresse cheese.jpg 800 × 600; 72 KB
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Bleu des Causses cheese.jpg 800 × 600; 48 KB
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Bleu du Haut-Jura, de Gex, de Septmoncel cheese.jpg 500 × 375; 145 KB
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Bleu du Vercors cheese.jpg 650 × 488; 46 KB
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Blissful Buffalo cheese.jpg 532 × 399; 40 KB
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Blue Monday cheese.jpg 441 × 616; 43 KB
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Blue Vinney cheese.jpg 220 × 165; 8 KB
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Cambozola cheese.jpg 593 × 487; 104 KB
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Cashel Blue cheese.jpg 650 × 498; 55 KB
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Cornish Blue cheese.jpg 444 × 461; 80 KB
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Cotswold Blue cheese.jpg 530 × 398; 26 KB
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Cut in a round.jpg 800 × 782; 198 KB
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Danish Blue cheese.jpg 650 × 510; 33 KB
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Devon Blue cheese.jpg 530 × 398; 19 KB
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Dolcelatte cheese.jpg 166 × 211; 24 KB
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Dorstone Blue cheese.jpg 530 × 398; 31 KB
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Dovedale Blue cheese.jpg 200 × 142; 25 KB
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Edelpilzkäse cheese.jpg 99 × 54; 2 KB
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Exmoor Jersey Blue cheese.jpg 530 × 398; 20 KB
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Fourme de Montbrison cheese.jpg 800 × 600; 50 KB
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Gorau Glas cheese.jpg 364 × 336; 24 KB
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Lanark Blue cheese.jpg 800 × 600; 66 KB
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Loddon Blewe cheese.jpg 800 × 689; 46 KB
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Morbier cheese.jpg 443 × 357; 30 KB
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Oxford blue cheese.jpg 573 × 461; 101 KB
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Partridge Blue cheese.jpg 530 × 398; 34 KB
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Picón Bejés-Tresviso.jpg 200 × 167; 35 KB
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Queso de La Peral cheese.jpg 500 × 333; 66 KB
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Queso de Valdeón.jpg 450 × 300; 32 KB
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Rochebarron cheese.JPG 800 × 600; 58 KB
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Roquefort cheese.jpg 790 × 576; 63 KB
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Saga cheese.jpg 446 × 408; 45 KB
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Shropshire Blue cheese.jpg 180 × 135; 9 KB
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Somerset Blue cheese.jpg 500 × 332; 58 KB
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St Agur cheese.jpg 650 × 488; 36 KB
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Stichelton.jpg 534 × 800; 96 KB
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Stilton cheese.jpg 800 × 713; 112 KB
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Suffolk Blue cheese.jpg 286 × 250; 74 KB
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Wardhall Blue cheese.jpg 158 × 157; 10 KB
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Wiltshire Blue cheese.jpg 500 × 332; 49 KB