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Cheeses grouped by how the curd is made and ripened, from fresh acid curds to cave-aged wheels.

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Ferment	Region	Main step	Temperature	Salt	pH
Pecorino di Maglie	Italy, Puglia	2–10 months
Pecorino di Norcia (del caseificio)	Italy, Umbria	2–12 months	6 °C
Pecorino di Norcia del pastore	Italy, Umbria	2–12 months	6 °C
Pecorino di Nule	Italy, Sardegna	2–12 months
Pecorino di Osilo	Italy, Sardegna	2–12 months
Pecorino di Picinisco PDO	Italy, Lazio	at least 30 days
Pecorino di Pienza stagionato in barriques	Italy, Toscana	at least 3 months
Pecorino di Pietraroja	Italy, Campania	2–6 months	8–15 °C
Pecorino di Roiate	Italy, Lazio, province of Rome	15 days – 12 months	10–12 °C
Pecorino di Vitulano	Italy, Campania	at least 30 days
Pecorino foggiano	Italy, Puglia	2–8 months	13–15 °C
Pecorino fresco e stagionato	Italy, Campania	3–12 months
Pecorino in botte	Italy, Marche	40 days – 3 months
Pecorino in grotta del viterbese	Italy, Lazio	2–3 months	10–11 °C
Pecorino ligure di malga	Italy, Liguria	2–12 months
Pecorino maturato in grotta	Italy, Emilia-Romagna	at least 3 months
Pecorino primo sale	Italy, Calabria	15 days
Pecorino Romano PDO	Italy, the whole of Sardinia and Lazio, and the province of Grosseto in Tuscany	at least 5 months	6–12 °C
Pecorino rosso	Italy, Sicilia	at least 4 months	12–16 °C
Pecorino salaprese	Italy, Campania	24 h
Pecorino Sardo PDO (dolce/maturo)	Italy, the whole of Sardinia	20 days – 2 months	6–12 °C
Pecorino Siciliano PDO	Italy, the whole of Sicily	at least 20 days	14–18 °C
Pecorino stagionato in botte (Umbria)	Italy, Umbria	3–4 months	10–12 °C
Pecorino stagionato in foglie di noce	Italy, Toscana	2–3.9 months	4–8 °C
Pecorino stagionato in fossa/grotta (Umbria)	Italy, Umbria	3–4 months	10–12 °C
Pecorino Toscano PDO	Italy, the whole of Tuscany and neighbouring communes of Umbria and Lazio	at least 20 days	5–15 °C	17–19 %
Pecorino Umbro	Italy, Umbria	2–8 months	4–8 °C
Pélardon PDO	France, Cévennes, Montagne Noire, Hautes Corbières and the garrigues of Gard and Hérault	42 h – 3 days	12–18 °C		up to 4.5
Pepper Jack	USA
Petit-suisse	France	24 h
Piacentinu Ennese PDO	Italy, Sicily	at least 2 months	8–10 °C		4.8–5.7
Piave PDO	Italy, Veneto	at least 20 days	10–14 °C
Pichtogalo Chanion	Greece, Crete	24 h		1 %	4.4
Picodon PDO	France, Drôme and Ardèche, with the cantons of Valréas	at least 23 days	5–10 °C		4–4.5
Picurinu	Italy, Sicilia	8 days – 8 months	12–16 °C
Piddiato	Italy, Sicilia	20 days – 12 months
Pied-De-Vent	Canada, Québec, Îles de la Madeleine
Pinzgauer Bierkäse	Austria, Salzburg	42 days
Pirotski kačkavalj	Serbia, Pirot and its surroundings	10–15 days	25 °C
Pljevaljski sir	Montenegro, Pljevlja municipality	at least 15 days	15–25 °C
Pont-l'Évêque PDO	France, Normandy	at least 18 days	4–15 °C
Port-Salut / Saint-Paulin	France	28 days	12 °C
Pouligny-Saint-Pierre PDO	France, Centre-Val de Loire, west of the Indre department	24 h – 4 days	12–16 °C
Pratolina	Italy, Toscana	up to 2 months
Pressato a mano	Italy, Lazio	up to 2.6 months	10–12 °C
Primo sale di latte ovino	Italy, Lazio	24 h – 7 days
Primosale stagionato di Cuffiano	Italy, Campania	20–25 days	12–15 °C	20 %
Provola affumicata	Italy, Campania	2 days – 5 months
Provola affumicata di bufala	Italy, Campania	at least 2 days
Provola dei Monti Sicani	Italy, Sicilia	up to 30 days
Provola dei Nebrodi PDO	Italy	16–24 h		up to 4 %	5–5.4
Provola delle Madonie	Italy, Sicilia	10–15 days
Provola di bufala (semplice e affumicata)	Italy, Lazio	up to 7 days	6–8 °C
Provola di vacca (semplice e affumicata)	Italy, Lazio	24 h – 6 months	11–12 °C		5.1–5.2
Provola e caciotta a pasta filata	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Trento	2–3 h		18–20 %
Provola siciliana	Italy, Sicilia	30 days – 3 months
Provoletta di latte vaccino sardo	Italy, Sardegna	7 days	4 °C
Provolone del Monaco PDO	Italy, Campania	at least 5.9 months	8–15 °C
Provolone invecchiato di bufala di Formello	Italy, Lazio	12 months – 5 years	4 °C
Provolone vaccino (Lazio)	Italy, Lazio	30 days – 12 months	4–12 °C		5.1–5.2
Provolone Valpadana PDO	Italy, Po valley	up to 30 days
Puzzone di Moena PDO	Italy, Trentino	at least 3 months	10–20 °C
Quagliata ligure (Prescinsêua)	Italy, Liguria	2 days
Quark	Germany and Austria	20 h	58–60 °C		4.5–4.7
Quartirolo Lombardo PDO	Italy, Lombardia	2–30 days	2–8 °C
Queijo Amarelo da Beira Baixa	Portugal, Beira Baixa	at least 40 days	8–14 °C
Queijo Cabacinha	Brazil, Minas Gerais	7 days		20 %
Queijo coalho	Northeast Brazil	5–10 days	10–12 °C	1–2 %
Queijo colonial	Southern Brazil	30 days – 2.5 months	up to 10 °C
Queijo de Azeitão PDO	Portugal, Setúbal peninsula	8–12 days	8–14 °C
Queijo de Cabra Transmontano	Portugal, Trás-os-Montes	at least 2 months	5–12 °C
Queijo de Castelo Branco (Queijo da Beira Baixa PDO)	Portugal, Beira Baixa	at least 40 days	8–14 °C		4.7–5.9
Queijo de Évora PDO	Portugal, Alentejo	30 days – 3.9 months	14–15 °C		5 → 4.6
Queijo de manteiga	Northeast Brazil	24 h – 7 days	up to 10 °C		5.5–6.2
Queijo de Nisa PDO	Portugal, Alto Alentejo	30–40 days	10–14 °C		4.8–5.7
Queijo do Marajó	Brazil, Pará	up to 24 h		1–2 %
Queijo do Pico	Portugal, Azores	20 days	10 °C		5
Queijo do Reino	Brazil	40 days		20–22 %
Queijo Mestiço de Tolosa	Portugal, Portalegre district	21–28 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal (Canastra, Serro, Salitre, Araxá, Cerrado, Campo das Vertentes)	Minas Gerais, Brazil	14–22 days			5
Queijo Minas Artesanal da Canastra	Brazil, Minas Gerais	at least 22 days	at least 12 °C
Queijo Minas Artesanal de Araxá	Brazil, Minas Gerais	at least 14 days	at least 12 °C
Queijo Minas Artesanal do Campo das Vertentes	Brazil, Minas Gerais	at least 22 days	at least 12 °C	2.4–2.8 %	5–5.3
Queijo Minas Artesanal do Serro	Brazil, Minas Gerais	at least 17 days	17–22.5 °C
Queijo Picante da Beira Baixa	Portugal, Beira Baixa	at least 3.9 months
Queijo São Jorge PDO	Portugal, Azores, island of São Jorge	3–4 months			5.6
Queijo Serpa	Portugal, Baixo Alentejo	at least 30 days			5–5.2
Queijo Serra da Estrela PDO	Portugal, Serra da Estrela uplands	at least 30 days	6–14 °C
Queijo serrano	Southern Brazil, Campos de Cima da Serra	at least 2 months	at least 5 °C
Queijo Terrincho	Portugal, Terra Quente Transmontana and the upper Douro	at least 3 months	8–14 °C	15–20 %
Quesillo (Honduras, Nicaragua)	Central America	24 h			5.7
Queso adobera	Mexico	18–24 h		1–2 %	5
Queso amasado (Carchi)	Ecuador, Carchi province	8 h	5 °C		up to 6.8
Queso añejo	Mexico	20 days – 5.9 months		3 %
Queso asadero	Mexico, especially the north and the Huasteca of San Luis Potosí	30 min	32 °C	2 %	5.6
Queso Camerano	Spain, La Rioja	at least 15 days	9–15 °C
Queso Casín PDO	Spain, Asturias	at least 2 months	6–12 °C		6.3 → 4.71
Queso Castellano PGI	Spain, the whole of Castile and León	at least 30 days	3–18 °C		4.7–5.7
Queso chanco	Chile	21–42 days	12 °C
Queso Chihuahua	Mexico, Chihuahua State	30 days	6.5 °C	2 %
Queso Colonia	Uruguay, Colonia department	10–12 days	8–11 °C
Queso costeño	Colombia, Caribbean coast	14 h	6–8 °C	1–2 %	5.6
Queso crema de Chiapas	Mexico, Chiapas	at least 7 days			4
Queso cremoso	Argentina	at least 20 days	4 °C
Queso de Acehúche	Spain, Extremadura	at least 40 days		up to 4 %	5–6
Queso de bola de Ocosingo	Mexico, Chiapas	50 days – 3.6 months		3–4 %
Queso de cabra (Chilean goat)	Chile	28 days	12 °C	1.9–2.6 %
Queso de capas (Mompox)	Colombia, Bolívar	10 min			6.5 → 5.2
Queso de Flor de Guía PDO	Spain, Canary Islands, north-west Gran Canaria	at least 15 days	4–18 °C
Queso de l'Alt Urgell y la Cerdanya	Spain, Catalonia	at least 45 days	11–14 °C
Queso de La Serena PDO	Spain, Extremadura, La Serena district	at least 20 days		up to 20 %	4.9–5.9
Queso de mano	Venezuela	16–20 h		3.7 %	4.5
Queso de Murcia al Vino PDO	Spain, Region of Murcia	at least 45 days	9–13 °C		at least 5
Queso de Murcia PDO (fresco and curado)	Spain, Region of Murcia	at least 2 months	9–13 °C		at least 5
Queso de Peñamellera	Spain, Asturias	10–30 days
Queso de poro de Balancán	Mexico, Tabasco	7 days		2–3.9 %	4.3–4.9
Queso de Porrúa	Spain, Asturias	3 days		2 %	6
Queso de Tafí del Valle	Argentina, Tucumán	at least 30 days		25–33 %	5–5.4
Queso de Valdeón PGI	Spain, León, municipality of Posada de Valdeón	at least 30 days	5–10 °C		6.4–7.6
Queso del Cebreiro (Cebreiro PDO)	Spain, Galicia	at least 45 days	up to 15 °C
Queso doble crema	Colombia				5.4 → 4.93
Queso duro blandito / queso seco	Honduras and El Salvador	18–24 h		2.8–3.5 %	6.6–7
Queso fresco	Mexico	30–40 min	32 °C	1.5–2 %	6.6–6.9
Queso Los Beyos	Spain, Asturias and Castile-León border	at least 11 days	8–12 °C
Queso Majorero PDO	Spain, Canary Islands	at least 8 days
Queso Manchego PDO	Spain, Castilla-La Mancha	30 days – 2 years	3–16 °C		4.8–5.8
Queso mantecoso de Cajamarca	Peru, Cajamarca	5–6 days		2–2.5 %
Queso Nata de Cantabria PDO	Spain, Cantabria	at least 7 days
Queso Oaxaca (quesillo)	Mexico	30–45 min		2 %	5.5–5.6
Queso Paipa	Colombia, Boyacá, the municipalities of Paipa and Sotaquirá	21–28 days	12–20 °C		5.2–5.2
Queso Palmero PDO	Spain, Canary Islands, island of La Palma	at least 8 days	10–18 °C		6.5 → 5
Queso Palmito	Costa Rica	6 h
Queso panela	Mexico	1 h		600 %	6.8
Queso paria	Peru, Puno region	30 min	34 °C
Queso telita	Venezuela, traditional in the south of Bolívar state	24 h – 2 days		1.5–3.5 %	6.6 → 5.1
Queso Turrialba	Costa Rica, Cartago	8–24 h		1.5–2 %	5.6–7
Quesucos de Liébana PDO	Spain, Cantabria	2 months	up to 15 °C	2–3 %
Qula (Tibetan dried yak curd, China)	China, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	2 days	20–25 °C
Qurt (Kazakh)	Kazakhstan	10–12 h		1–1.5 %	4.6–4.7
Raclette de Savoie PGI	France, Savoie and Haute-Savoie, with some municipalities of Ain and Isère	at least 56 days			at least 5.5
Raclette du Valais	Switzerland, canton of Valais	at least 3 months	7–14 °C		4.8–5.2
Ragusano PDO	Italy, Sicily, the Hyblean plateau	at least 3 months	14–16 °C
Ras (Romi)	Egypt	4–6 months	15–18 °C	2–3 %
Raschera PDO	Italy, Piedmont, the province of Cuneo and the municipality of Villafranca Piemonte	at least 30 days
Rasco	Italy, Calabria	20 days
Raviggiolo di latte vaccino del Mugello	Italy, Toscana
Raviggiolo di pecora pistoiese	Italy, Toscana	6–7 h
Raviggiolo di pecora senese	Italy, Toscana
Reblec	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	up to 2 days
Reblec de crama	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	1.5 h

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