Cheese can be quite smelly. It can be so smelly that bad farts are often compared to it being sliced.
The smelliest of all smelly cheeses, however, is Vieux Boulogne, a soft cheese from a northern French port with the same name. It has a bright orange rind washed in beer during production, and has garlic mixed in, making for what a panel of experts labelled as ‘the smelliest in the world’.
It may look innocent but this little slab is from the smelliest cheese in the world.
Generally speaking, washed rind cheeses have the biggest odours. Cow’s milk cheeses are also on the smellier end of the spectrum. In France, the smelly cheese problem is so rampant that cheeses like the similarly stinky Eppoises de Bourgogne are banned from public transport.
The best solution for those with a smelly cheese problem – glass! While first instincts may tell you to wrap that stinkball up in plastic wrap, the odour will actually just soak into the plastic and eventually find its way through. If you wrap it then chuck the cheese in a glass container, however, it will stay fresh and you’ll keep your fridge clean of ungodly odours and stay safe.
