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Home » Dairy » Cheese » Cheese Technical Terms » Truckle

Truckle

Truckle of cheese

Truckle of cheese. Hubertl / wikimedia / 2015 / CC BY-SA 4.0

When used in relation to food, a truckle is generally a whole cylinder of cheese as sold by the cheesemaker, though it can also be a wheel.

In North America, people are more inclined to just say a “wheel” of cheese, even if it’s a cylinder.

There’s often an assumption that a truckle of cheese is large, and it often is, but a truckle can also be a small one such as would be sold to consumers by supermarkets, as the term refers to the shape rather than the size.

Language Notes

A truckle, generally, is a small wheel or a caster. What North Americans would call a “trundle bed” (the kind of small bed on wheels that wheels under a large bed) people in the UK call a “truckle bed”.

A truckle is also a wooden tray that looks like a small sledge, with handles for lifting and carrying to the front and the back.

Other cheese technical terms

  • Affinage
  • Casein
  • Cooked-Curd Cheeses
  • Creamery
  • Double-Cream Cheese
  • Fat Content of Cheeses
  • Longhorn Cheese
  • Pate (of a Cheese)
  • Pressed-Curd Cheeses
  • Raw Curd Cheeses
  • Rennet
  • Semi-Cooked Curd Cheeses
  • Skim-Milk Cheeses
  • Smear-Ripened Cheeses
  • Stretched Curd Cheeses
  • Sweet Curd Cheeses
  • Triple-Cream Cheese
  • Turophile
  • Washed-Curd Cheeses
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