Cooked Curd Cheeses Or Cooked Pressed Cheeses

A step in the cheesemaking process when the cheese curd is heated, sometimes in the surplus whey. Cooked cheeses are all hard cheeses and other Swiss types traditionally the biggest wheels of cheese from the mountains: Gruyere, Beaufort and the cheeses with 'eyes' like Swiss Emmentaler, the cheese most Americans think of as 'Swiss cheese.'