Because I looked it up on wikipedia and it said "blue veining"!!! WTF!! I don't want my cheese to have any veins!! Is that just a term and what makes that cheese blue?????
2007-07-24 09:15:49 · 15 answers · asked by djzlyric 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
ARE THEY ACTUAL VEINS?????!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!!????!
2007-07-24 09:37:22 · update #1
The "blue veining" they are describing in blue cheese comes from several different types of Penicillium mold. It is completely harmless and tastes delicious, if you like that very pungent aftertaste!
For example, Penicillium roqueferti is used in Roquefort blue cheese.
Please, DO NOT eat green or blue colored cheese that is NOT supposed to be.
2007-07-24 09:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by bringthepayne82 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dear you should have checked on how the cheese is made. the "blue/bleu" veining is caused by the injection of blue/green spores from penicillium rogurorti or glaucum. These spore originally came from the kind of caves the were first stored in. By accident someone tasted the cheeses that were thought spoiled.
Thank goodness they liked them. Now we have many types of "blue veined" cheeses. These spores do not harm us.
2007-07-24 09:30:49 · answer #2 · answered by suzdav68 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the curds have been formed into a wheel;
they press a tool made of copper wires into it.
Then the cheese is stored in a special cave,
where this particular mould in known to grow.
While the cheese is curing, the mould gets in.
It spreads through the holes into the gaps.
I love blue cheeses:
Danish, Roquefort, Stilton, Gorgonzola, etc.
2007-07-24 09:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're gona feel really bad when I tell you that the "Bleu vaining" is mold. True Roquefort is kept in caves to age (in France) where it developes the bleu veins. They found out by accident when they were trying to keep cheese cool and preserved many many (centuries) ago.
2007-07-24 09:32:02 · answer #4 · answered by Cricket 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they are not actual "veins." It's just the mold following the shape of the curds in the cheese.
2007-07-24 09:48:28 · answer #5 · answered by KatJones37 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blue is mold. They inject air and bacteria into the cheese before it is aged and it molds in the areas that they inject- thus creating veins.
2007-07-24 09:21:09 · answer #6 · answered by Johnny Elbows 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a type of blue mold that is injected into the cheese.
2007-07-24 09:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by margarita 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mold makes the cheese bleu, and blues viens is just a term
2007-07-26 14:33:26 · answer #8 · answered by Ally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually cheese is actually mold and a certain kind of mold is blue... and that is why it is BLEU...
BLEU is French for BLUE
They make lots of cheese in france.
2007-07-24 09:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs. Crosby 87! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes veins, like a vein of gold or silver in the ground.
2007-07-24 09:43:12 · answer #10 · answered by jon_mac_usa_007 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋