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Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano

Innichner (San Candido)Innicher

Cow milk from Val Pusteria farms is skimmed to 4.0% fat, pasteurised, soured with lactic cultures and set with calf rennet. The corn-size curd goes into bar-shaped moulds without pressing and is brined. The 3.5 kg bars ripen 6 weeks at 85–92% humidity and are sold by the slice.

Fully documentedCheese42 daysTraditional food product (PAT, Autonomous Province of Bolzano; 21st national list, March 2021)Family: Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedMade in one cooperative dairy; the sheets give no batch size or doses. A bar weighs about 3.5 kg.
Cow milk, skimmed to 4.0% fat and pasteurised[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]
Lactic cultures[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]
Calf rennet, liquid or powder[onaf-sheet]
Salt (brine)[pat-sheet]
Starterlactic cultures

Total time across the recorded steps: 42 days

Start
Drag the bar or press Play

What changes: The milk is skimmed to 4% fat and pasteurised

Step 1 of 6
Skim and pasteurise the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Cow milk from Val Pusteria farms is skimmed to 4.0% fat, pasteurised, soured with lactic cultures and set with calf rennet. The corn-size curd goes into bar-shaped moulds without pressing and is brined. The 3.5 kg bars ripen 6 weeks at 85–92% humidity and are sold by the slice. Made in 6 steps over 42 days. The longest step, ripen, takes 42 days (Autonomous Province of Bolzano).

Key numbers
Main step42 daysReported[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]Ripen
Temperature35–37 °CReported[onaf-sheet]Add cultures and rennet

What makes this one different

Shaped as a long bar so it cuts into even slices, it is softer and milder than the similar-looking Originale Dobbiaco. Its curd is neither cooked nor pressed, and it ripens six weeks.

Storage
ONAF says the finished cheese is kept at 1–10 °C and portioned by cutting across the bar's long axis
Rind
Not edible, thin, smooth, intense straw
Size
Bar ('Stanga') 28 × 12 × 12 cm, about 3.5 kg

Related ferments

Safety

The milk is pasteurised before cheesemaking, and the cheese is kept at 1–10 °C.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The Dobbiaco dairy cooperative was founded in 1883. The province form says this cheese has been made almost unchanged to this day.

  1. [pat-sheet] Autonomous Province of Bolzano, PAT product form no. 11 'Innicher - San Candido' (Art. 8 D.Lgs. 173/98), copy hosted by ONAFgov
  2. [onaf-sheet] ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters), technical sheet 'Innichner (San Candido)'web
  3. [onaf] ONAF, cheese page 'Innichner (San Candido)' (id 1267)web