Most Expensive Cheese

Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Food, Luxury, World on July 24th, 2009

World's Most Expensive Cheese

Cheese is likely the most popular dairy product in the world, a food that predates written history. In 2004 alone, over 18 million metric tons of cheese were produced worldwide. The world’s most expensive cheese, however, is only produced at one farm and at a very specific time of year.

Unusually, the cheese isn’t made from cow’s milk—the milk comes from moose! Moose House, a 59-acre moose farm located in northern Sweden, is where the cheese is produced from three foundling moose named Gullan, Haelga, and Juna.

The moose are unusually tame, which is the only reason Moose House owners Christopher and Ulla Johannson can collect milk for the cheese. Even then, they can only be milked between May and September and the process takes about 2 hours per animal, hence the outstanding price of the cheese.

The most expensive cheese in the world is 12% fat and 12% protein and about 660 lbs are produced annually. The Johannsons sell it to high end Swedish hotels and restaurants for about $500 per pound.


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2 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by Donna 26th July, 2009 at 8:20 am

    wow! hahaha. It’s ridiculous!

  2. Posted by Tyler 27th July, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    I bought four pounds and it is worth $2,000.00 dollars. tehehe. And i still have a ton of money. hahahaha

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