Is Donkey cheese the most expensive?

Narrator: Pule donkey cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world. Produced by only one farm in the world, pule will cost you about $600 for a single pound. Making it requires more time and effort than most other cheeses. You need over 6 1/2 gallons of donkey’s milk just to make 1 kilogram of cheese.

What is the best most expensive cheese?

The 5 Most Expensive Cheeses In The World

• Bitto Cheese – $150 Per Pound. Bitto cheese is a combination of goat’s milk and cow’s milk.
• Wyke Farms Cheddar – $200 Per Pound.
• White Stilton Gold Cheese – $420 Per Pound.
• Moose Cheese – $500 Per Pound.
• Pule Cheese – $600 Per Pound.

What is the best cheese in the world?

Olavidia
A soft Spanish goat’s cheese has done enough to seduce this year’s judges at the World Cheese Awards, with Olavidia being crowned the best cheese in the world and beating more than 4000 entries from over 40 countries on five continents.

What is the most expensive French cheese?

The most expensive Comté is “Comté vieux” (old Comté), which is generally aged over six months and possibly over a year. Comté is the traditional cheese used in a cheese “fondue”, and also for “raclette” (see below).

How is Pule made?

Pule cheese or magareći sir, is a Serbian cheese made from 60\% Balkan donkey milk and 40\% goat’s milk. Pule is produced in Zasavica Nature Reserve, as conceived by Slobodan Simić, Zasavica Special Nature Reserve Manager and former Serbian MP.

What cheese has maggots in it?

casu marzu
And it is within these edgy curves that shepherds produce casu marzu, a maggot-infested cheese that, in 2009, the Guinness World Record proclaimed the world’s most dangerous cheese. Cheese skipper flies, Piophila casei, lay their eggs in cracks that form in cheese, usually fiore sardo, the island’s salty pecorino.

What’s the worst cheese for you?

• Worst cheese overall: Double Gloucester (contains the most calories and fat)
• Worst cheese for salt content: Roquefort.
• Worst cheese for saturated fat content: Stilton.

Which cheese is used for pizza?

Mozzarella Cheese
Mozzarella Cheese This is the most commonly used cheese for pizzas due to its light and creamy texture. Typically, you’ll see this as a the base of every cheese pizza while other pizzas like the Margherita include mozzarella. When opting for mozzarella cheese, consider the low- and high- moisture options.

Why Pule is so expensive?

Pule is reportedly the “world’s most expensive cheese”, fetching US$600 per kilogram. It is so expensive because of its rarity: there are only about 100 jennies in the landrace of Balkan donkeys that are milked for Pule-making and it takes 25 litres (6.6 gallons) of milk to create one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cheese.

Why is Casu marzu illegal?

Casu marzu is registered as a traditional product of Sardinia and therefore is locally protected. Still, it has been deemed illegal by the Italian government since 1962 due to laws that prohibit the consumption of food infected by parasites.

What cheese smells like vomit?

That distinctive pukey smell you allude to is the whiff of butyric acid, a short-chain fatty acid naturally ocurring in plant and animal fats. It’s found in vomit, and it’s found in parmesan cheese (it’s found elsewhere, too, but let’s not digress).

What is dondonkey cheese?

Donkey cheese (Pule) is made from donkey milk in the Serbian nature reserve Zasavitsa. It has a delicate unique aroma and crumbly texture. The shocking price ($1200 per 1 kg) is due to the extremely rare and large volume of milk for production: 1 kg of donkey cheese requires 25 liters of rare donkey milk.

How much does a pound of donkey cheese cost?

In the past few years, the cost of the pule cheese has ranged from $700 to $1,700 per kilogram or $400-$900 per pound. On average, 1 kg of donkey cheese costs 1000 euros (£870; $1328).

What is the most expensive cheese in the world?

A characteristic feature of Serbian cuisine, Pule is not only extremely rare but also the most expensive cheese in the world. Zasavica donkey reserve, a donkey farm inside Zasavica, about 80 kilometres from Belgrade produces the donkey cheese by hand-milking a herd of about 100 endangered Balkan donkeys.

Where can I buy donkey cheese in Serbia?

Zasavica donkey reserve, a donkey farm inside Zasavica, about 80 kilometres from Belgrade produces the donkey cheese by hand-milking a herd of about 100 endangered Balkan donkeys. By selling the donkey cheese at 1,000 pounds per kilogram (app. $576 a pound), the Zasavica donkey reserve plans to sponsor their conservation work.