What’s on the Cheese poster
A 6-row table: Type · Examples · Melts?.
Grouped by texture, which follows from moisture and ageing.
- Fresh — Mozzarella, ricotta, feta — Softens; mozzarella stretches
- Soft-ripened — Brie, camembert — Yes, runs
- Semi-hard — Cheddar, gouda, gruyère — Yes — best for sauces
- Hard — Parmesan, pecorino — Poorly; use grated as seasoning
- Blue — Stilton, gorgonzola — Yes, strongly flavoured
- Washed rind — Taleggio, époisses — Yes, pungent
For a smooth cheese sauce, grate finely and add off the heat. Boiling makes the proteins tighten and the fat separate.
Questions about the Cheese poster
- What’s on the Cheese poster?
- A 6-row table: Type · Examples · Melts?. Grouped by texture, which follows from moisture and ageing. Fresh — Mozzarella, ricotta, feta — Softens; mozzarella stretches; Soft-ripened — Brie, camembert — Yes, runs; Semi-hard — Cheddar, gouda, gruyère — Yes — best for sauces; Hard — Parmesan, pecorino — Poorly; use grated as seasoning; Blue — Stilton, gorgonzola — Yes, strongly flavoured; Washed rind — Taleggio, époisses — Yes, pungent. For a smooth cheese sauce, grate finely and add off the heat. Boiling makes the proteins tighten and the fat separate.
- Who is the Cheese poster for?
- Cheese belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ingredients can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cheese poster?
- Younger and moister cheeses melt smoothly. Aged hard cheeses tend to split. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cheese belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cheese?
- Storing Bread, Chillies and Choosing Fish sit alongside Cheese in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Storing BreadChilliesChoosing Fish
- Is the Cheese poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cheese downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cheese poster print at?
- Cheese is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cheese loses nothing.Printing guide
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