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TyboQueso Tybo

Tybo is a ripened, semi-hard, semi-fat cheese of pasteurised cow milk set with rennet and specific lactic bacteria. Part of the whey is removed and the curd is semi-cooked and washed with hot water, pre-pressed under whey, moulded, pressed and salted. It ripens at least 25 days into a rectangular block of 3–5 kg and is kept at no more than 12 °C.

Fully documentedCheese25 daysMERCOSUR technical regulation of identity and quality, GMC Resolution 42/96 (adopted in Uruguay by Decree 121/012)Family: Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedThe standard gives no doses. Blocks weigh 3–5 kg. A typical Tybo in one study held 1.28 g salt per 100 g.
Milk and/or reconstituted milk, standardised in fatPasteurised or given an equivalent heat treatment (negative phosphatase). The standard says only "milk"; Wikipedia calls Tybo a cow's milk cheese.[tybo-mercosur][wp]
Cultures of specific lactic bacteria[tybo-mercosur]
Rennet and/or other suitable coagulating enzymes[tybo-mercosur]
Sodium chloride[tybo-mercosur]
Milk powder, cream, milk solids and calcium chloride (optional)[tybo-mercosur]
Startercultures of specific lactic bacteria (species not named)

Total time across the recorded steps: 25 days

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What changes: Rennet and lactic cultures set the pasteurised milk

Step 1 of 5
Set with rennet and lactic cultures
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Pasteurised milk is set with rennet or other coagulating enzymes, with specific lactic bacteria.

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

Tybo is a ripened, semi-hard, semi-fat cheese of pasteurised cow milk set with rennet and specific lactic bacteria. Part of the whey is removed and the curd is semi-cooked and washed with hot water, pre-pressed under whey, moulded, pressed and salted. It ripens at least 25 days into a rectangular block of 3–5 kg and is kept at no more than 12 °C. Made in 5 steps over 25 days. The longest step, ripen, takes at least 25 days (MERCOSUR/GMC/RES No 42/96 2012). Salt is 1.3 % (Sihufe GA 2018).

Key numbers
Main stepat least 25 daysSet[tybo-mercosur]Ripen
Salt1.3 %Measured[sihufe2018]Salt

What makes this one different

A washed-curd block cheese whose curd is semi-cooked by adding hot water after part of the whey is drawn off, and which may be sold after as little as 25 days of ripening.

Milk
Pasteurised milk standardised in fat (the standard says only "milk"; Wikipedia says cow's milk)
Ripening
At least 25 days
Shape
Rectangular block of 3–5 kg; medium moisture and semi-fat under the MERCOSUR cheese rules

Related ferments

Safety

The standard requires pasteurised milk, or an equivalent heat treatment that gives a negative phosphatase test, and storage at no more than 12 °C. It also makes the cheese meet the MERCOSUR microbiological rules for medium-moisture cheeses. Its 25-day minimum is a ripening time for the cheese's character, not a stated safety limit.

History and sources

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

Wikipedia calls Tybo a Danish cheese, named after Thy and similar to a mild Samsø. Its MERCOSUR identity and quality rule is GMC Resolution 42/96, adopted in Uruguay by Decree 121/012 of 2012.

Microbes
No study we found names its microbes.
  1. [tybo-mercosur] MERCOSUR/GMC/RES No 42/96, Reglamento Técnico MERCOSUR de Identidad y Calidad del Queso Tybo, as published in Uruguay, Decreto No 121/012 (Diario Oficial, 3 May 2012), IMPOgov
  2. [sihufe2018] Sihufe GA, De Piante Vicín DA, Marino F, Ramos EL, Nieto IG, Karlen JG, Zorrilla SE (2018). Effect of sodium chloride reduction on physicochemical, biochemical, rheological, structural and sensory characteristics of Tybo cheese. International Dairy Journal 82:11–18, doi:10.1016/j.idairyj.2018.02.006 (abstract)paper
  3. [wp] Wikipedia, Tybo cheese (outline only)wiki