Grana Padano Cheese Wheels
Boni SpA sells more than 200,000 Grana Padano wheels every year, all certified PDO and sourced exclusively from selected cheese factories located in the official production area, mainly in Mantova, Brescia, Piacenza, Trento and Cuneo. Each wheel of Grana Padano is transferred to Boni’s seasoning warehouses, where it undergoes controlled ageing and constant quality checks. The maturation process can exceed 20 months, particularly for Grana Padano “Riserva”. Thanks to the availability of different ageing levels, Boni is able to offer a consistent range of Grana Padano cheese wheels that fully meets the diverse requirements of national and international markets.
Characteristics
Average weight: 35÷38 Kg
Ingredients: milk, salt, rennet, lysozyme as preservative ( derived from egg ).
Storage and Seasoning Temperature: +16°C / +18°C
Minimum seasoning: 10 mesi
Seasoning
Grana Padano “fresh” (meaning aged 12 months) is extremely perfect on dishes that require baking or grill. In fact the softness of the cheese and its still relatively high moisture contents enhance the taste and flavour of grilled and baked dishes. Furthermore, Grana Padano fresh, is very good in preparing sauces as it melts very well in the liquids. This type of Grana Padano is also perfect to be added on meat carpaccio, ham and salami, artichokes and mushrooms as it matches greatly with all these so different flavours echalting their tastes
During the preparation of meat fillings, vegetable, nuggets and omelettes if you use Grana Padano of medium seasoning (12-16 months) you get great results; the taste, although very strong, it does not affect the other flavours but links them together, highlights them, makes them more harmonic. Other than that, this type of cheese allowes you to prepare very tasty ricecakes.
Hard long seasoning cheese (18-24 months),once hot, get harder much slower, this is due to the already decomposed casein .With such grana padano you can greatly cook all long lasting dishes which can be consumed after plenty of time .
Cutting and Portioning
Once the desired level of ageing is reached, part of the production is sold as whole Grana Padano wheels, while the remaining wheels move to the cutting and packaging department. Here, the Grana Padano wheel is portioned into slices and carefully packed, preserving its flavour, texture and quality for both retail and food service applications.
Traditional horizontal cut
(Half wheel)
1/32° of wheel
( ab.1 kg piece)
1/16° of wheel
(ab.2 kg portion)
1/8° of wheel
(ab. 4 kg piece)
1/4° of wheel
( ab.8 kg piece)
