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    Home » Cheese Types » What is Tuma Cheese (Domestic)? – How To Use It

    What is Tuma Cheese (Domestic)? – How To Use It

    Published: Mar 26, 2012 · Modified: Dec 28, 2013 by Eric Samuelson

    What is Tuma Cheese

    This post is a part of my What is ____ Cheese Series? featuring | Muenster | Brick | Gouda | Colby

    Sometimes when you are trying to identify or classify cheeses you end up with some names being used for more than one type of cheese. There isn't set rules that everyone uses when it comes to naming cheees. Which is why I found it difficult in looking up information on a cheese called Tuma. The cheese that I found at several grocery stores in the Metro Detroit is labeled as domestic tuma. It is a white cheese that is about as soft as fresh mozzarella. It is mild like mozzarella, but I think it has more flavor than mozzarella.

    What to Use Domestic Tuma For?
    This cheese can be used in any way you would use mozzarella. I love it on pizza. I would rather pick it over mozzarella any day. It melts just as beautifully, and adds more flavor to the pizza.

    Where You Find Domestic Tuma
    So far I have found at these Michigan stores:
    Nino Salvaggio - Clinton Township, MI
    Westborn Market - Berkeley, MI

    If you have come across this cheese, let me know where you can find it.

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    1. Dave

      July 05, 2012 at 6:34 am

      A dear friend of mine, who was born in Sicily, recently invited me to his home to participate in learning to make ricotta cheese.
      He came to America at age 9 and remembered his family making ricotta in the old country and wanted to learn how to do it.
      One of his friends, also from Sicily, was very familiar with the ricotta making process and volunteered to show us how it was done.
      To keep the process authentic as they did it in Sicily he insisted that we use raw sheep or goats milk, which we did.
      The first product of the ricotta(recooked) making process is what is called Tuma and our teacher was very, very imphatic to point out that it was not a cheese "it is Tuma".
      For me, it looked and tasted like "farmers cheese" or the Spanish product called "turtle" cheese that my late, Cuban, father in law used to make but this Sicilian continually reminded us that it was not considered cheese.
      Maybe it was just a translation thing or perhaps a technical issue, not sure.
      Once the Tuma is removed from the whey in the first process, more milk is added to the whey and recooked to produce the ricotta cheese.
      He said that many people think that the first product of the process, Tuma, is ricotta but they are badly mistaken, it is not.
      I have watched many YouTube videos of making ricotta cheese and almost all of them result in Tuma not ricotta, there are a few exceptions that show the real recooking process.
      Incidently, my mother is Italian and I have been eating ricotta cheese all my life of 71 yrs but we never made our own and I had never heard of Tuma until this cheese making experience.
      My dear Sicilian friend who hosted the gathering passed away last Friday at the age of 69 and will be dearly missed.
      Hope this sheds some light on your subject of Tuma.
      Dave Plowman
      Tampa, FL

    2. Renee

      July 10, 2012 at 9:23 pm

      Papa Joes Market has it on sale this week for $3.99/lb.

    3. admin

      July 11, 2012 at 7:18 am

      Thanks for the info!

    4. Jade

      December 09, 2012 at 5:40 pm

      Pallucca & Son in Frontenac, KS has it!

      My favorite! Great even just melted and eaten alone, in my opinion!

    5. Ace

      March 13, 2013 at 9:15 pm

      Tuma is available at Horrock's Lansing and Grand Rapids stores.

    6. tom

      April 26, 2013 at 3:41 pm

      can also find it at Cantoro's Italian store in livonia

    7. john

      August 21, 2013 at 2:51 pm

      Cantoro's in Livonia, MI also carries Tuma (from Wisconsin)

    8. carl e

      October 19, 2014 at 8:31 pm

      You can find too much cheese at Nino salvaggio's and at Papa Joe's gourmet market place in Rochester and also their location in Birmingham. I am sure that westborn market in Dearborn also sells it

    9. tim

      April 11, 2015 at 12:16 am

      I found tuma at produce palace 12 mile rd and Dequindre in Warren Michigan

    10. Rick Benko

      October 03, 2015 at 5:46 pm

      Thanks for your site. I actually found 2 one pound packages for
      $0.99 each at a discount at Westborn market Middle belt and
      Five mile in the cheese room. It's funny as I'm making home
      made pizza on Monday and was going to use mozzarella. I'm kind
      of a gourmet cook. So thanks for the information.

    11. Scoltt

      December 19, 2015 at 6:30 pm

      Randazzo's @ 13 Mile and Schoenherr has it.

    12. Eric Samuelson

      December 20, 2015 at 8:59 am

      Thanks for the heads up!

    13. Kendra Mantey

      March 17, 2016 at 2:40 pm

      Just wanted to let you know that you can also get Tuma at my store in Farmington, The Cheese Lady.

    14. Diane Buchanan

      March 22, 2016 at 10:42 pm

      Trying a new recipe for as Italian Easter Pizza Pie, it calls for Tuma Cheese. So far I have not been able to find it, nor anyone whom has even heard of it. Is there another type of cheese that can be used in place of it?

    15. Eric Samuelson

      March 24, 2016 at 9:55 am

      You could also go with mozzarella or if you can find it brick cheese.

    16. Rossana

      March 02, 2019 at 11:53 pm

      Your tuma cheese is likely made at the Galati Cheese Factory in the Windsor (Canada) area.

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