A Friendly Cheese Encyclopedia
cheese.help is a free cheese encyclopedia with straight answers: which cheese to buy, how to cook with it, what to pour with it, and what to use when the store is out.
Popular cheese answers
These popular cheese answers are the questions people bring here most, each answered in the first lines of the page.
The Best Cheese for Mac and Cheese
Use a blend. Make about two-thirds of it sharp cheddar aged 6 to 12 months for flavor and the rest a smooth melter such as Gruyère, fontina, Monterey Jack or young...
The Best Cheese for Grilled Cheese
The best cheese for grilled cheese is one that melts before the bread browns, such as deli American, young cheddar, Monterey Jack, muenster, fontina or Havarti. For...
The Best Cheese for Pizza, Style by Style
Whole-milk low-moisture mozzarella, grated from a block, is the best cheese for most pizza, from New York slices to Sicilian squares and bar pies. Neapolitan pizza...
High Protein Cheese: The Best Cheeses for Protein, Ranked
Parmesan is the highest protein cheese per ounce: USDA lists hard Parmesan at 10.1 grams, ahead of Romano (9.0), hard goat cheese (8.7), Gruyère (8.5) and Swiss...
The Smelliest Cheeses in the World
The smelliest cheese on record is Vieux-Boulogne, a beer-washed French cheese that topped a 2004 Cranfield University sniff test of 15 cheeses. Most other famous...
What Is Brie? France's Classic Soft Cheese, Explained
Brie is a soft cow's milk cheese with a thin, edible white rind of Penicillium mold, named for the Brie region east of Paris. Only Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun...
What Is Labneh? The Middle Eastern Yogurt Cheese, Explained
Labneh is salted yogurt strained through cloth until most of its whey drains away, leaving a thick, tangy spread that sits between Greek yogurt and cream cheese. It...
The Mildest Cheeses, Ranked From Fresh to Firm
The mildest cheeses are fresh, unaged ones: ricotta, fresh mozzarella, cream cheese and queso blanco. Next come young, moist cheeses such as brie, Bel Paese,...
The Best Cheeses for a Charcuterie Board
The best cheeses for a charcuterie board cover four roles: a soft cheese such as brie or fresh goat cheese, a firm aged cheese such as Manchego or aged Gouda, a...
Cheese families
Cheese families group cheeses by how they are made and aged, which tells you more about taste and texture than country does.
Three cheese tools
These three cheese tools answer the practical questions: what to serve with a cheese, how much to buy for a board, and what to use instead.
Cheese Pairing Guide
This cheese pairing guide starts from either side: pick a cheese to see what to pour and plate with it, or type a wine, beer or fruit to find the cheeses that suit it.
Cheese Board Builder
The cheese board builder picks a balanced set of cheeses for your headcount, different in milk, texture and strength, and tells you how much of each to buy.
Cheese Substitute Finder
The cheese substitute finder ranks the five closest swaps for the cheese your recipe calls for, by family, milk, strength and flavor.
The cheese library
The cheese library holds every article on the site, sorted into ten topics.
Cheese by country
Cheese by country, for when you know where a cheese is from and want its neighbors.