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Two blue-cheese wedges with ivory and light golden pastes, irregular blue-green veins and contrasting textures on a plain platter.

Blue Cheeses

Blue cheeses have blue or green mold veins within their paste.

Feature
Blue or green veins
Producer’s examples
Blu ’61 and Hyrkus

Air and veins

Carpenedo describes piercing the cheese to help the molds develop. Its range includes cheeses of different textures, so blue cheese does not mean one fixed level of creaminess.

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