![]() ![]() But it is also sold in various stores in North America, usually through the Ski Queen type, which is produced by the Norwegian company Tine. Your best bet would be in Sweden and Denmark. Buying brown cheeseĬan one get this cheese outside of Norway? Being a very specific food for the Norwegian cuisine, it can be a challenge to find it in other countries. Also, you can just slice yourself some pieces and nibble on it. The cheese will give it a richer flavor, and add a subtle hint of sweetness that many seem to appreciate. A third way is to add it to a stew or a gravy. Kids especially like to combine it with different types of jam, and it works excellent as topping on/in a pancake/crepe combined with blueberry jam. The second most common is on a Norwegian waffle, usually with a thin layer of butter under. The most common way is on top of a slice of bread (toasted bread can work very well). Norwegian Waffle with brown cheese How to eat brown cheese? Almost half of the dry part of a brown cheese is milk sugar. It has more of a sweet flavor, due to the milk sugar in the whey being caramelized. Many foreigners that have not had it before, naturally will expect a cheese flavor, but will be surprised, sometimes pleasantly sometimes not, that it does not taste like a cheese. ![]() This one often consists of 100% cows milk, and has a lighter brown color and a sometimes sweeter and milder flavor. A lot of people also prefer a milder brown cheese, for instance what is also called mysost (whey cheese). Cows milk is cheaper and more plentiful though, so to make a cheaper cheese and larger quantities it makes sense to use whey from cows milk. Some (like me) would say it makes it taste better. Goat milk gives it a much stronger flavor, more intense and more rich than cows milk. The traditional way to make brown cheese was by using 100% goat milk. So what is a brown cheese then? I’ll get to that now. The brown cheese is made from the whey, a waste product when you make (white)cheese. ![]() A real cheese is made from the milk product you are left with after the whey is separated out. With a big craft made brown cheese How is brown cheese or gjetost made?Īs stated above, brown cheese is per definition not a cheese. Read more about how the cheese is made below… However, when we talk about a Norwegian goat cheese (gjetost), we usually refer to the kind that is made of 100% whey from goat milk. Brunost (brown cheese) to the left – Gjeitost (Goat cheese to the right) What is a brown cheese?įirst to clarify, why do I and many call it brown cheese, and not goat cheese/gjetost? The answers are simple: because there is not always just goat milk in it, sometimes cow milk is used, and also “goat cheese” is a pretty wide term. ![]()
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