The Kingdom of Cheese is a climate-controlled enclave with just cheese - the person there is happy to help you decide because they know you'll be back eventually as indeed the products there have those crystals.
I submit to you that you've not tried the good British cheeses such as a Baron Bigod (Norfolk Brie), a nettle covered Cornish Yarg, the well-named Stinking Bishop, the rolled-in-ashes Kidderton Ash, Yoredale, Yarlington, Stilton, Beauvale, Gorwydd Caerphilly, Driftwood, Pevensey Blue, Witheridge in Hay, Ailsa Craig ...
I love them all, but that gouda taste is something else to me and my wife. French shops just around the border luckily import some of it, I never saw it in Switzerland shops.
One way to upmark any cheese for us to put ie black truffles or wild black garlic in it.
Talking about gouda, gotta get me some slices before kids munch it all again.
Although for me some of the French cheeses are the best. Just what you're used to I guess :D
Chällerhocker is another great one in your neck of the woods.
If anyone else is ever in the Netherlands and has a chance, due the tour in Gouda, it's delightful and you get to try a bunch of gouda cheese!
Agreed btw, the tour in Gouda is wonderful. Show up for the morning when they have the cheese market; it’s a really fun time.
What we call umami is a subjective experience that has an underlying molecular cause, but it's complicated: more than one molecule contributes to the sensation, different foods have different molecules, many people can't recognize it on its own, etc.
The most easily recognized umami tastes seem to come from hydrolyzed soy protein and yeast extracts- both are added to tons of food. The canonical example is Doritos, which are a masterpiece of modern food industrial optimization. Doritos are mostly corn, but they also add whey (cheese derived umami), MSG (molecular, isolated glutamate in salt form), buttermilk (multiple flavors including umami), romano cheese (more umami!), tomato powder (umami), inositate (umami). It's basically an umami bomb.
From what I can tell, the best umami flavors come from a combination of several different molecules combined with some salt. the combination seems to potentiate the flavor significantly. You can also saturate out your receptors- if you drink a highly concentrated broth, you'll see there's some upper limit to the amount of umami you can taste and after that, additional aminos are just wasted.
If spending too much time in eve online taught me anything, it's that convenience is worth money. People are inherently lazy, and there's plenty of ways to exploit that.
The next level of pre-grated cheese is frozen pizza, for example.
But really, there is what feels like an ever increasing list of 'stuff to do, things to attend', and preparing food (and sleep) are obvious time sinks to reduce, and of course people are willing and increasingly able to pay.
A recent survey (forget the link, sorry), listed time spend on food preparation / cooking nowadays as averaging out on just 28 minutes daily. Around 1980, this was still around 2.5 hours. I believe context is UK.
I easily spend 3 hours daily, because especially with a little kid I just think it is important to do, but I do also feel the weight of it.
This book is an in depth scientific introduction to, exactly, cheese. A great read, you can feel the passion the man has for his work!
It tasted fine, no one got sick. Kind of underwhelming to be honest, but it wasn't particularly tasty to begin with: industrial cheese, pasteurized milk. It fact, that it still had some life in it surprised me.
Really? I thought it was the other way around, starting relatively firm and liquefying as it rots.
Also the reason why I don't buy pre-grated cheese, it doesn't age well. It also tends to be lower quality to begin with.
... Cannot form on the outside, presumably.
I was a little taken aback on seeing it, given that antibiotic stewardship has been pushed so much in the last decade.
I realize that natamycin is an antifungal and not an antibiotic, and that mechanisms of developing resistance are likely different between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. However, I’m still somewhat concerned what long-term low-level exposure will mean.
Never came close to anything resembling a well melted, good tasting sauce.
don't buy pre-shredded cheese unless you like replacing up to 10% of your cheese with essentially sawdust at a premium.
https://www.eater.com/2016/3/3/11153876/cheese-wood-pulp-cel...
B) it's legally limited to 4%, not 10%
Where are you buying cheese that this comparison isn't noticable?
e.g.
https://www.health.com/thmb/weSqKiqtCDqtEK3nJ5HWrViwQNM=/150...
This. In actual dish, I doubt most could taste any difference. You only really notice when it's not melted fully or not melted at all.
Is this a promotion for the National Cheese Stockpile?[1] The US has about 1.5 billion pounds of cheese in storage in a cave in Missouri. Really. There's a USDA welfare program for dairy farmers, and they have to put the excess milk somewhere. So it's made into cheese and stored.
For instance, I buy way more shredded cheese than blocks. It removes an annoying step that creates a dirty utensil that isn't trivial to clean (grater). If I'm making 3 quesadillas a day for picky children to eat at different snack or mealtimes, I don't want to own 3 shredders, nor to have to carefully scrub the cheese off it 3x per day.
I haven't noticed any important difference in the cheese besides saving me like 15 minutes a day of fussing with cheese graters.
Random example. I buy a meal made by a professional chef and have it delivered. It's more convenient and it's a much better meal than I could make. It's more expensive, sure, but that's not 'in every way'
I'm starting to wonder if
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If something is shelf stable, that’s because the bacteria can’t or won’t eat it. If bacteria doesn’t want to eat something, it’s not food. And you probably don’t want it in your stomach.
Some things are shelf stable by physically keeping the bacteria out of it (eg canned food). That seems fine. But how do they make shelf stable cheesy / creamy products? Bacteria loves cheese. They do it with weird additives and substitutes that - by design - bacteria hates. But that also means our bodies can’t really eat it either - since we use the same bacteria in our stomach to digest things.
Plenty of healthy things are convenient. Like, apples! But healthy food is rarely shelf stable. Almost by definition.
Especially cheese and bread, but also fruit, meat and peanuts.
Typically adds between 1 week and 1 month of shelf life to products in the typical doses
Just because something has been used since 1955 doesn't mean it's all good.
I'm here all night folks.
Arguably it's an even bigger problem than antibiotic resistance: fungi are eukaryotes, just like us, and in practice this means we have less chemical weapons to fight them with. Losing the relatively small arsenal we have would be quite bothersome to say the least.
You're quite correct. Thankfully, my local has me covered with that![0][1]
The stuff without preservatives definitely doesn't last as long, but the difference in taste/texture makes all the difference.
[0] https://shop.wmarketnyc.com/s/1000-1052/i/INV-1000-87892
[1] https://shop.wmarketnyc.com/s/1000-1052/i/INV-1000-89151
Edit: Fixed link formatting.
https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-re...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-injects-magic-mushrooms-...
A few related medical words: Cryptococcal meningitis, Mucormycosis, Blastomycosis, Histoplasmosis.
Hopefully your brain is warmer than 34°C - perhaps avoid trusting zombie HBO shows for medical knowledge.
I'm guessing they were riffing on the zombie-ant fungus: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
I got a call to be an extra and figured what the heck, was totally worth it. Got to very briefly meet Craig Mazin too.
The aging part takes more work. I converted a 7.5 CU refrigerator using an Inkbird temp controller. That works surprisingly well. Currently I'm attempting to improve the humidity control with a humidity version of the Inkbird.
But highly recommended. I have everything I made (even the failures) with the exception of one of the first attempts.
Not sure at all what you’re referring to. Surely it’s not “american cheese”, which has been the punchline of obvious cheese jokes for decades. Or the powder in mac & cheese boxes, which is its own thing.
From where I stand, I see grocery stores in the USA stocking large varieties of cheddars, fontina, gouda… all “real cheese.”
If it comes from a wheel where it was aged, almost any cheese is good - depending on your particular taste. The aged ones with crystals are great, especially Dutch ones, but "local" cheese is almost always wonderful.
I was in Colby, Wisconsin a couple of times and I found the local Colby cheese to be good. Many locally made cheese are good, but again if they are bagged in plastic then they do not compare with the "real" thing.
It's not like the act of putting cheese in plastic instantaneously alters it.
I make cheese myself (both fresh and year-long aged ones) and virtually all the people I met knew what real cheese was.
If it is the "ultra-processed" cheese what you are referring to, that might not be liked by some but that's still cheese, regardless of its plastic-y feel.
This is something I’ve been curious about. Can you speak more about how you got into it? What kind of research did you do before getting started? Did you know anyone else who had done it before you got into it?