What is the most uncommon cheese?
Emily Wilson
Updated on April 02, 2026
What is the most uncommon cheese?
Here are 11 of the more unusual cheeses you may run across:
- Casu Marzu (Italy)
- Milbenkase (Germany)
- Yak cheese (Tibetan communities)
- Airag cheese (Central Asia)
- Camel’s milk cheese (Ethiopia, Mauritania, Sudan and Bedouin communities)
- Human milk cheese (New York)
- American cheese (United States)
- Lichen cheese (Canada)
What is the finest cheese in the world?
MADISON: A gruyere from Switzerland has been named the world’s best cheese, chosen from a record number of entrants from 26 nations in the World Championship Cheese Contest in Wisconsin. The cheese from Bern, Switzerland made its maker, Michael Spycher of Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus, a two-time winner.
Which country has cheap cheese?
Price Rankings by Country of Local Cheese (1kg) (Markets)
| 1. | Switzerland | 25.34 $ |
|---|---|---|
| 2. | Taiwan | 22.31 $ |
| 3. | Hong Kong | 20.99 $ |
| 4. | Luxembourg | 19.79 $ |
| 5. | Singapore | 19.14 $ |
What is the most sold cheese?
For the USA – Mozzarella seems to be the most popular cheese based on sales figures, followed by Cheddar and Parmesan.
Which is the most rare cheese in France?
One of the most cherished French cheeses is Ossau-Iraty, a ewe’s milk semi-soft from the country’s Basque region. Bleu de Termignon is also prestigious and very rare, drawn exclusively from several dozen Alpine cows of the Tarentaise and Abondance breeds that graze in the Vanoise National Park and aged in a cellar for four to five months.
Where does the most expensive cheese in the world come from?
What makes it so expensive is that it comes from the milk of a Balkan donkey from Siberia. It’s not just the most expensive cheese, but also one of the rarest of them all. It takes 25 liters of the donkey’s milk to make just one kilogram of the cheese.
Which is the creamiest cheese in the world?
Buffalo’s milk has around twice the fat of cow’s milk, so it produces some of the creamiest cheese in the world. This cheese is made with time-tested techniques and aged 8-12 months in the caves of Casa Madaio. It has a delicate, buttery flavor and melts in your mouth.
Which is the oldest cheese in the world?
While still not technically 100 percent legal, this allows the cheese to fall into a relative legal gray area under E.U. regulations. A rare Italian cheese produced in the Valtellina Valley in Lombardy, Bitto Storico is the world’s oldest commercially available cheese.
One of the most expensive cheeses in the entire world is Pule, and it comes from the milk of a very unlikely candidate: the donkey. But not just any donkeys are used to make this cheese. Pule is made specifically from Balkan donkeys that live in Serbia.
What is the most expensive cheese?
A distinctive dairy product of Serbian cuisine , pule is reportedly the “world’s most expensive cheese”, fetching 1,000 Euros per kilogram. It is so expensive because of its rarity: there are only about 100 jennies in the landrace of Balkan donkeys that are milked for pule-making and it takes 25 litres (6.6 gallons)…
Where is the most cheese made?
Wisconsin produces the most cheese of any state, followed by California, Idaho, and New York.
What is the most expensive cheeseburger?
The world’s most expensive cheeseburger — the “Le Burger Extravagant” at NYC’s Serendipity 3 — is $295.
