The Cheese Thread

[Essence Lumin]

I was reading about blue cheese. The winner was Rogue River blue cheese. I see it is available here for $20 / half pound. I might have to treat myself and see if I die in a food orgasm or if it's just nonsense.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

 

[Free]

My local supermarket has begun carrying Cheez-It puffs (Puff'd in their terminology). With a sale at the store for all of Cheez-It's products, I decided to pick up a bag.

My verdict: Meh. Taste-wise they're fine, but they get the same thing wrong I feel a lot of puff makers do - they lack an effective texture or crunch. You can pop one and have it dissolve completely just from the moisture in your mouth. But I need some level of crunch, some reason to chomp down, otherwise I start getting sick of them after more than a handful.

 

[Isabeau]

The ones that dissolve are less painful when you are hit in the face with them, though, as we all know.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs http://dlvr.it/TGD8Lg

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[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs http://dlvr.it/TGD8Lg

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Brexit strikes again?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

A cheese factory just exploded in France.

Da Brie is everywhere!

 

[Essence Lumin]

A cheese factory just exploded in France.

Da Brie is everywhere!

Lynryd Skynrd made a song about that. "They call me Da Brie".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Free]

Sort of on topic.

I pickup different - usually frozen - Mac & Cheese dinners every month or so. I can't even be bothered with the minimal effort behind a Kraft Mac & Cheese meal, considering the ease of just popping it in the microwave and then eating. And I like testing out the various preparations and ingredients and styles.

However, I think I've found the worst Mac & Cheese product currently on the market: Marie Callender's Kansas City Style Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese Bowl. Along with the bland macaroni and cheese portion, you get an excess of burnt scraping on the side of the bowl when microwaving to the instructions. The sauce - or whatever it is, it can't be a BBQ sauce - has a sour-ish taste. The "pulled" pork was more of a ground meat, and I'm not even sure it was pork. It was a couple blobs of meat. I finished the meal because it wasn't going to kill me and even bland mac & cheese is edible. But I pulled the meat blobs out and tossed them into slice of bread with some ketchup and diced onion to flavor them up a bit.

Most of the reviews on Marie Callender's page seem to agree with me: Kansas City Style Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese Bowl

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Most of the Marie Callender frozen meals and bowls are generally decent, at least the ones I've had, except for the Mac and cheese that comes with their Salisbury steak meal. I've found it bland and watery. Sadly, I haven't found a frozen Mac and cheese that hits all the right notes. But I'll sure steer clear of the MC Kansas City mess.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I pickup different - usually frozen - Mac & Cheese dinners every month or so. I can't even be bothered with the minimal effort behind a Kraft Mac & Cheese meal, considering the ease of just popping it in the microwave and then eating. And I like testing out the various preparations and ingredients and styles.

We share the same brain again.

However, I think I've found the worst Mac & Cheese product currently on the market: Marie Callender's Kansas City Style Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese Bowl.

What? But I love that one!

Along with the bland macaroni and cheese portion, you get an excess of burnt scraping on the side of the bowl when microwaving to the instructions.

Yeah, that happens if you don't stir it enough....and if your microwave is powerful. I have to cook mine minimum time and do the stirring thing before the last 30 seconds as the package says. Even then I'll get a little burnt sometimes.

The "pulled" pork was more of a ground meat, and I'm not even sure it was pork. It was a couple blobs of meat.

It used to be more "pulled", it's definitely a pork and sometimes you only get a couple of blobs, but usually it's a bunch of blobs that works out once you stir the thing.

Most of the reviews on Marie Callender's page seem to agree with me: Kansas City Style Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese Bowl

They need a little more quality control on them, bring back the "pulled", and have them mixed up at the factory before sealing. That might make them more consistent in preparation.

Also the Stouffers frozen Mac & Cheese has a gritty powdery taste, mediocre. You're better off buying the Kraft Easy Mac Big Bowls.

 

[Free]

What? But I love that one!

But but, same brain! I guess not...

Yeah, that happens if you don't stir it enough....and if your microwave is powerful.

I almost have a joke about how powerful my microwave is, but I need to workshop it.

Also the Stouffers frozen Mac & Cheese has a gritty powdery taste, mediocre. You're better off buying the Kraft Easy Mac Big Bowls.

I don't think they put much effort into it. Their pepperoni pizza mac & cheese bowl is OK, probably because of the penne pasta (and pepperoni...), but their baked white mac & cheese is pretty good - they use a different pasta and a creamy white cheddar, and it has the nice crumbly breading.

 

[Isabeau]

Well, if we’re going to talk about ”unhealthy“ fast snacks, I just zapped some leftover tourtière with a slice of Kraft cheese on it, then microwaved some scrambled eggs that I added on top. I might even add a tad of ketchup.

Breakfast of champions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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I think I can say, with reasonable certainty, absolutely the fuck not

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[Casey Pelous]

I don't know what is happening in Wensleydale, but, by god, I want in on it.

 

[Free]

From November - woof. Almost 4800 different cheeses from 47 countries.

 

[Essence Lumin]

From November - woof. Almost 4800 different cheeses from 47 countries.

All that cheese. Here I am in south Jersey where there isn't even one shop dedicated to cheese. There are a number in Philly but going into philly is a hassle with tolls and parking.

 

[Free]

All that cheese. Here I am in south Jersey where there isn't even one shop dedicated to cheese.

Be careful what you wish for or you could get what I have near me: a cutesy-named shop called C'est Cheese.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Be careful what you wish for or you could get what I have near me: a cutesy-named shop called C'est Cheese.

I would be unable to prevent myself from visiting and repeatedly pronouncing it "Sest Cheese." "Or is it 'Chest Cheese?'" I might even take a checkbook* so I could completely fumble the spelling a few times.

Yes, I'm that idiot.


* Look it up, kids.