Jarlsberg
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Jarlsberg is a Norwegian semi-soft, part-skim cow's-milk cheese with a mild, buttery, distinctly sweet-nutty flavour and large, irregular round holes (eyes), in the manner of a Swiss Emmental. Pale yellow, smooth and supple, it slices and melts cleanly and is one of Norway's best-known food exports, sold around the world in yellow-wax-coated wheels.
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Supple, pale yellow, clean cutDried, cracked, stray mould
Wrapped pieceEveryday bestMade from pasteurised milk, so it is not the raw-milk cheese CDC tells pregnant, 65+ and immunocompromised people to avoid.
The cut faceEven colour, the open face a shade duller
The wax, if anyCoat intact, opened only where it was cut