5 Most Expensive Cheese with Rare Making in the World
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VIVA – Many people love to eat cheese because it tastes delicious and is easy to find, especially in supermarkets and small stalls. But it turns out that cheese as a food has many types and prices are quite expensive.
Some of the world's most expensive cheeses may be the result of the rarity of the ingredients or making. To find out more about the expensive cheese, here are the five most expensive cheeses in the world.
1. Pule Cheese
Keju Pule Keledai
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Pule cheese comes from Serbia with an average price of $600/ kilogram. Pule can be expensive due to the scarcity of one of the ingredients, namely Balkan donkey milk, which makes up 60% of Pule cheese.
Unfortunately, for right now, Balkan donkeys only have about 100 females, not all of them nursing at any given time. Because it takes 25 liters of milk to make one kilogram of Pule, the price of Pule cheese is very expensive. Pule cheese is also only made in the region of origin of the Balkan donkeys, the Zasavica Nature Reserve in Serbia.
2. Cabrales Cheese
Keju Cabrales
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In 2018, Cabrales cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world around 2.62 kilograms of Cabrales sold for $16,000 and entered the Guinness World Records as the world's most expensive cheese ever sold at auction.
Cabrales hail from Spain, the commune's dairy farmers make cheese from goat's and sheep's milk and use traditional methods handed down from previous generations.
3. Moose Cheese
Keju Moose
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Moose cheese costs $1,000/kilogram, but is usually sold by the pound for around $445. So, Moose cheese is placed as the most expensive cheese in the world. The high price is because the cheese is made by only one group of cheese makers that actually makes Moose cheese in the world.
Led by Christer and Ulla Johansson, Moose cheese is made from deer milk at Johansson's farm in Sweden. They usually produce about 300 kg of cheese per year. Three types of Moose cheese are made with a softer, tougher crust and a blue cheese is finally ripe.
4. White Stilton Gold Cheese
Keju White Stilton Gold
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A variant of Stilton cheese made traditionally since 1911 in the village of Stilton, England, it costs around $420/pound and is also sold per piece for $95/100g.
The price is based on the use of gold liquor or gold liquor to make the cheese batch. White Stilton Gold cheese also takes longer than other types of cheese.
5. Wyke Farms Cheese
Keju Wyke Farms
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Wyke Farms is the UK's largest cheese producer and uses a secret recipe originally owned by Ivy Clothier in the 1950s.
Although it uses plain cow's milk as its main ingredient, the brand name and the secret method used to make the cheese make this product expensive. This cheese also low in sugar or gluten. So, it is suitable for people who are allergic to gluten.
Wyke Farms aged up to 15 months cost an average of $200/pound. However, younger cheese can be sold for less than $14/pound.
