Talk:Gamalost

I will merge Gammelost into this page because it appears this is the Norwegian name. - AKeen 03:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, gamalost is the nynorsk version of the word, and gammelost is the bokmål version.

Recipe
Trying to source this recipe. Maybe it should be moved to the cookbook later.

Recipe
50 liter very sour milk to make 4-5 kg cheese Warm milk to 50-60 degrees C. (140 F.) Cheese will coagulate apart from the whey Take out the cheese, lay in fine cheese cloth and press out excess whey. Cheese should hang a day or two so all whey runs out. There should just be a cheese mass after. It is important to get the right ripening. Set the cheese in a room at about 20 degrees C. (68 F.) so fermenting will start. Let it stand about two days. Cheese should now be yellowish and have some smell. Place the cheese in a 10 degree C. (50 F.) environment. Place food paper over the cheese so it does not dry out. Turn the cheese every day until the cheese is ready in 1-3 weeks.

Is this a blue cheese?
Cheese.com says that it is a blue cheese and that is why it was added to the Blue cheeses category:
 * The name of the cheese means "old cheese" and the reason is that the rind grows a green-brown mould and looks old before its time. It is creamery, blue cheese made from goat's milk.

However, I can not find any other source that explicitly calls it a blue-veined or blue cheese and pictures of it look nothing like a typical blue cheese.

It is not a blue cheese; I had the dubitable privilege of experiencing gammelost in Norway. It was in a large round with a brown, almost mottled, skin, looking much like a liver pate. The chef who was serving it told me that, aside from its commercial production by TINE, it is now only produced by one creamery in Vestlandet.


 * Indeed, this article (in norwegian) distinguishes between three types of moulded cheese, the ones with blue moulds, the ones with white moulds (like brie), and gamalost is mentioned as a third kind.

Seconded. Cheese.com is wrong here, probably because it isn't really a cheese at all, in the traditional understanding of cheese. As a Norwegian, I know my gamalost, and no variety of this cheese has blue veins; it has brown "hairs". It starts out as white, then goes dark brown (at which point it's eaten), and if left for too long, it turns near white again, with the brown dripping off as liquids, and the remainder resembling cottage cheese. Traditionally, it's served on bread with soft butter both below and on top of the cheese. This prevents one from smelling the cheese, and creates a taste explosion. 65.75.16.254 (talk) 00:18, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Folklore
I wrote a section on the folklore about Gamalost - the stories about it being matured in cow manure and the one about the soiled socks, used to strain the curd. The stuid bot read it as vandalism and wiped my edit. This folklore DOES exist in the English-speaking world, at least and I'm not sure why the bot thought my edit was vandalism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.38.231 (talk) 09:22, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Two questions: Are there reliable sources that confirm the existence of these stories? Have these stories received prominent enough coverage to be notable? Unless the answers to both' of these questions is "yes", the stories have no place in an encyclopaedia article. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:26, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Of Cheeses
Hi, here's one RS for Gammelost: https://snl.no/gammelost The "old style" curdling method of using sour or soured milk instead of rennet is the source of the name "old cheese". I note that the title is still in nynorsk; by choice? T 88.89.5.214 (talk) 22:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)