How many different types of cheese are there?

There are 8 types of cheese.which fall into categories:


Fresh Cheese ..This category contains ie. Ricotta, cottage, Mascarponi etc


Semi Soft Cheese...Colby, Fontina etc


Soft Ripe Cheese... Brie, Camembert etc


Cooked Cheese...Mozzarella, Provolone etc


Washed RInd Cheese... These are the 'stinky' cheese ie Stinking Bishop etc


Semi Hard Cheese... Includes Cheddar, Red Leicester etc.


Hard Cheese.... Parmesan, Pecorino, Gouda


Blue Cheese... Veined cheeses, St Agur etc





There are over 2,000 known variations of the above but there are many more made on small farms and in peoples kitchens


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In France alone there are over 300 different types of cheese some people even say there are close to a thousand! So you can only imagine how many there are in the world!





There are fresh cheeses, soft cheeses, pressed cheeses, pressed and cooked cheeses, Goat cheese, Blue cheeses, Processed cheeses.





Canned cheeses.





..and that is just a handful.




internationally it's endless,from the milk of cows goats sheep buffalo ,llama ;pasteurised cheese ,with bacteria ,regional cheese,and traditional cheese ,new world cheese,red blue ,green ,mature,mild.hard soft,creamy, pickled,and that's just et tesco,so perhaps there is NOT millions,cause if they dint have it does it exist! does it?




There are hundereds of cheese types. These can all vary depending on the area/district/country you are in. Cheeses all have different varieties as it can depend on the producer.




In France alone there are over 350 registered types of cheese. About 1000 types have names around the world.




Thousands




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