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CHEESE TYPE BOARDS (for Cheese Lovers and Cheese Makers) => RENNET COAGULATED - Hard Grana (Grating Cheesee) => Topic started by: Webmaster on January 04, 2009, 12:37:30 PM

Title: Pressed Grana (Grating) Type Cheeses
Post by: Webmaster on January 04, 2009, 12:37:30 PM

This Board is for Members who are interested in making or who make Pressed Grana Type Cheeses.

Grana is an Italian term for a hard type cheese which are normally used grated. Some of the general characteristics of these cheeses are:

• Low water content.
• Long shelf lives.

Some High Temperature Type Cheeses sorted by origin are:

• Italy: Parmesan, Romano, Grana Padano, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Granone or Tipico Lodigiano, Trentingrana, Gransardo.
• Switzerland: Sbrinz.

In addition to this board there are Recipe (Ingredients, Directions, Tricks & Traps, & Pictures) webpages on this subject on the Recipe Area of CheeseForum.org website (http://cheeseforum.org/Recipes/Recipes.htm) as follows:

• Parmesan/Parmigiano (http://cheeseforum.org/Recipes/Recipe_Parmesan.htm)
• Romano (http://cheeseforum.org/Recipes/Recipe_Romano.htm)

Other resources:

• 2006 Article on making Parmigiano-Reggiano & Grana Padano (http://hhoffman.wordpress.com/2006/05/22/from-parmigiano-reggiano-to-grana-padano/) and field trip photos of Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Making Factory (http://photos.hhoffman.co.uk/p169950970/) and Caseificio Europa, Mantova, Italy, Grana Padano Cheese Making Factory (http://photos.hhoffman.co.uk/p56769887/).
• Italian Cheese Communication company CLAL.it's info video on Asiago Cheese (http://www.clal.it/en/index.php?section=video&v=5), in Italian with English subtitles.
• Italian Cheese Communication company CLAL.it's info video on Asiago cheese "Product of the mountain" (http://www.clal.it/en/index.php?section=video&v=6), in Italian with English subtitles.
• Italian Cheese Communication company CLAL.it's info video on Grana Padano Cheese (http://www.clal.it/en/index.php?section=video&v=2), in Italian with English subtitles.
• Italian Cheese Communication company CLAL.it's info video on Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese (http://www.clal.it/en/index.php?section=video&v=3), in Italian with English subtitles.