Why limburger cheese stinks

For example, some bacteria give cheese a mushroom flavor and a particularly-stinky odor. The damp surface typically attracts Brevibacterium, a type of bacteria that can be found on the human skin and can cause foot odour. So why do people love the cheese if it stinks so much? Easy — it tastes great. It is so expensive because of its rarity: there are only about jennies in the landrace of Balkan donkeys that are milked for Pule-making and it takes 25 litres 6. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.

Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Thanksgiving What is special about Limburger cheese? Ben Davis April 30, What is special about Limburger cheese? Published: May. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. Chalet Cheese Coop. Posted by Hannah Flood on Wednesday, May 22, You can find more information about the breakfast here.

Most Read. Dodge County locates missing woman, suspect in custody. Rock Co. Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival. Latest News. Membership at Princeton Club Madison West terminated after hate speech altercation.

Photographer captures unity in Juneteenth photo project. Output has dropped to around , pounds. Who buys Limburger? Like Aruba. Co-owner Chris Soukup says he averages 50 pounds of Limburger in sandwiches weekly. On the side is a mint-chocolate candy, as a breath freshener. Some Limburger fans add a creamy slice of Braunschweiger to the sandwich and wash it down with a bock beer. Soukup says first-timers arrive with a mix of eagerness, curiosity and trepidation about tasting the pungent cheese, whose cousins are brick and German beer cheese Olson makes the latter.

The work by local artist Kathy King, in part, pays homage to Limburger. Follow longtime travel and food writer Mary Bergin of Madison at roadstraveled. About pounds of the cheese were ingested during the biennial festival in Green County cheesemakers produce more than 50 kinds of small-batch cheeses.

The event, which began in , pays homage to the plus varieties of cheese made locally. You can count on the line for hot cheese curds to be longer than the one for cold Limburger sliders. What else? See how cheese is made. Watch a herd of Brown Swiss cows lead the Sunday parade. Expect no shortage of yodelers, alphorns or polka music. Limburger is not the only cheese that puts Chalet Cheese Cooperative, Monroe, on the map.

That started with breakfast: Limburger on a slice on toast, with grape or strawberry jam and a little honey. The cheese was created by monks in the Duchy of Limburg, an area now split between Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. She runs the label machine, and she packaged Limburger by hand until the process was automated.

Brevibacterium linens, also known as B. The B. Young Limburger resembles feta cheese because it is salty and crumbly. If the cheese ages too long, it hardens and starts smelling like ammonia.