Types of CHEESE in Poland

Sorry to repeat myself, but...
I never got an answer.... if I want to make Sernik, what kind of cheese do I use here in US?, I don't know what brick or farmer's cheese is called here!!!

Thanks

Very common cheese is "white" cheese (directly translated). It's kind of like cottage cheese, maybe it even IS cottage cheese but it's not as watery. Sometimes people add a little sugar to it and eat it with noodles or small macaroni. I'm not a huge fan of the taste, but if done right it can be very good. This is a common meal in the countryside, considered more of a "poor man's meal" though. Other ways to eat it is to just put it on a sandwich with some butter.

You can also make white cheese spread with chives and sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Tons of calories, but very good. You can make it also with sour cream, sugar and cinnamon if you prefer.
I did not see any real white, polish cheese in any large American supermarkets. I don't know where the polish delis are getting it from...I did not buy it for a while and I did not pay any attention to see where it was made.



This poor man's meal is very good if done right! :)

If your in the UK, try the Sainsbury's 'taste the difference' range. They are all full flavour, and beautiful. Not processed or homogonised. All other supermarkets fall short. (And I work for one of the other supermarkets)

This is of course for the God of English cheese... Cheddar! Emmental, Brie and Edam are continental cheese's, and beautiful, but I cannot recommend varieties! I hope this helps at least 1 person to a new flavour sensation!

Are french cheeses well-known in Poland ( and UK, USA ...) ???

Marek, I sense desperation in your question but don't worry, we Brits dont just deep fry brie (don't cry, it dies very quickly), but we do value Camembert, Boursin etc with a nice Merlot. It isn't better or worse than Strong Ale and Wensleydale or Piwo and Oscypek - each are excellent in their own time and place.
Our town has regular French market days and I do buy French country cheeses and wines.
Usually local cheese is best wherever you happen to be, because it is fresh or fresh from correct storage.
When In Korea I was amazed to find that many Hotels only stock (very expensive) French wine - when they are so much closer to Australia!

Zamojski cheese is the best!!!

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Best polish cheeses?

I'm in Gdansk now, and what are the best Polish cheeses I should seek out?

well, first of all (if you want to know Polish cheese) try the ones mady by Polish companies, not all those Danone, Hochland etc. that might have their factories here, but still use their French/German/international recipes :)

- typically Polish is "twaróg" (white cheese)
- then we have "serek/twarożek wiejski" (or "Grani") - similar to cottage cheese, it can be plain (just twaróg, sour cream, salt) or with some vegetables (szczypiorek is the most common)
- decent products of other types (IMHO) - Lazur (blue cheese), Turek (Camembert/Brie)
- I'm not keen of Polish versions of hard cheese (we call it "yellow") - you know Ementaler, Gouda, Edam or similar
- I like (but not too often) "twaróg wędzony" (smoked white cheese) - "twaróg wędzony" is not the same as "ser wędzony"!


- if you want to feel the old times (communist era) try "ser(ek) topiony" (again by Polish companis, like SerTop for example, not Hochland), which for years was the most popular, because it was the only type widely disponible.
- another "relics" from the past, even more connected to those times is "serek homogenizowany" (plain, not vanilla or fruit taste), warning for vegetarians, they probably use gelatine from cows/pigs for it, so I wouldn't recommend, besides you'll have troubles in finding it, it's almost "extinct"

what are the names of Polish cheese companies, using Polish recipes?

you should look for products of Polish dairies like SM Mlekpol , SM Mlekovita, OSM Łowicz
my favourite cheese is Kasztelan which is made by OSM Sierpc

try Oscypek, typical polish cheese made by polish highlanders. it's made out of goats/sheeps milk.

Definitely try Oscypek....had it whilst in Poland and it was delicious!

I forgot about oscypek, maybe because he's going to Gdańsk, so quite far from the mountains :)

Do I have to fly all the way to Poland to find this.
I am a cheese obsessive (so they tell me).
I couldn't find good cheese when I was in Poland.
Is there good Polish cheese in London?

There isn't the tradition of cheesemaking here in Poland that you would expect for such a rural country, which is why you wouldn't have found any good cheese while you were here. The best places to look are the markets in towns and cities within travel distance of the mountains where you can find oscypek and also smoked/unsmoked bryndza. Both of these are seasonal cheeses that use sheeps milk so they aren't available all year round. Real Oscypek is also increasingly rare since the EU registered it as a PDO product and many highlanders don't want to stick to the proper recipe. In London - avoid all those cheap Polish shops that sell mass produced food for homesick Poles and try La Fromagerie in London in the coming months as I am planning to start supplying them with Oscypek & Bryndza soon.

No exotic Polish cheeses in Ireland (some spreadable cheeses though) - any plans to supply Oscypek & Bryndza to Ireland?
Interestingly "brânză" is the Romanian word for cheese, pronounced as one would say bryndza in Polish... probably a good background story there somewhere!

Karpathian Mountains - both in Poland and Romania, so some similarities aren't a surprise, besides parts of modern Romania used to be Polish vassal states several centuries ago :)

hello;
I m in europe and not polish.
I like a polish cheese and want to learn the type of that cheese.
The knowledge on pakage is:
TWÓJ SMAK
Puszysty
SEREK
Smietankowy
Sklod: serek smietankowy sól, zagestnik-maczkachleba swietojonskiega

Can u help me to understand the writing above.
What kind of cheese is it?
It looks like cream cheese but not .

Thanks.

you can eat it... it's cream cheese...



Polish cheese is like snow.... white or yellow.... lol ;P

Thanks polishgirl. But ı ate cream cheese made in poland but not same that cheese

The cheese that ı like looks like a kind of white cheese but creamy.
is there anyone who know the production of that cheese? or a web site?

Can u translate the below writings to english please.

TWÓJ SMAK
Puszysty
SEREK
Smietankowy
Sklod: serek smietankowy sól, zagestnik-maczkachleba swietojonskiega

Thanks

Hello! My first trip to Poland (Katowice, Bytom, Krakow) introduced me to a delicious product called Bieluch. Could someone please tell me about what kind of cheese or milk product this is?! Tastes like buttermilk but looks thick, like fresh cheese/cream cheese! There is nothing like this in California!

Thanks!

oszczypek is good sp?

This one is for Osioł. Some good stuff here lad

Yeah I'm not a big fan of Polish cheese either.

I love creamy Havarti and Macedonian feta. yum.

I'm not saying I don't like Polish cheese - I just couldn't find any good stuff.

Maybe he wasn't referring to Polish cheese Mali. Sorry, I don't wanna be pedantic. Polish cheese is very good, e.g Mazdamer or Morski

Because its not that good :)


I know. He was referring to cheese in Poland and I interpreted it the way I wanted to read it :). The horrible truth.


homo ser is good....but its more of a yogurt type thing than a cheese.

I'm with the Ass on this one.
I'm not crazy about cheese in Poland (or Polish cheese). I used to love królewski but I'm so sick of it. bleh.

Types of cheese;

Smegma
Cheddar
White cheese

Smegma, is that Norwegian or Danish now? ;)