Perry's Cheese Blog

Over the years, I have always been mesmerised by the rind of cheeses. Thousands of microscopic organisms, all unknowingly working toward one objective to ‘protect the paste’. But what does this mean? In this blog, I want to give you an insight into how the rind comes to be, and what I think when I look at a cheese’s rind. Why Do Rinds Form? As a cheese ages, it forms a hard skin around it called the rind. The main function of the rind is to extend the cheese's lifespan by managing the degradation of the interior, or the paste....