/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11898432
ur mom melted all over my dick

Anglo "cheeses" lol

>>11898432
It's got powdered cellulose on it to prevent it from sticking together. Inhibits smooth melting to some degree.

Why would you buy it in the first place? Convenience, laziness? That shit is gross. I'll take having to grate an entire block on the smallest setting with elbow grease than to have that garbage ever again.

Pre-grated cheese is coated with (usually) cellulose to stop the shavings sticking together.

>>11898444
This

>>11898441
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>>11898441
The American take on anglo cheese.

>>11898432
it's covered in sawdust and/or processed potato scraps

>>11898444
>>11898449
It's usually cornstarch where I live.

If I want it to melt I rinse it off over wire strainer.

>>11898656
If you have to put your "cheese" in a sieve and rinse it under water, I'm afraid it is not real cheese. Learn to travel and taste proper food.

>>11898680
How does shredding cheese and dusting it with cellulose powder magically make it not real?

>>11898680
Food purists are worse than vegans and ultra-orthodox religious nuts.
I'd imagine you would be sucking your own dick all day if it weren't microscopic.

>>11898656
>If I want it to melt I rinse it off over wire strainer.
or just grate your own cheese, c'mon. They're charging you the price of cheese for that cornstarch you're washing off.

>>11898690
He's just being retarded. Apparently somehow coating something with dry food substance to preserve it is worse than dropping it in a liquid such as a brine or coating it in wax and mites. Fucking Euros.

>>11898705
"Preserving " grated cheese. Are you for real? American "cheese" is not real cheese. If you go to Europe and sample real cheese, you would know, and not just defend it 'cos it's Murrican.

If you buy pre-shredded cheese, you deserve to die.

>>11898705
God imagine defending grated cheese.

>>11898752
How is it not real?

>>11898766
It is all pasteurized and doesn't melt properly. It doesn't taste like proper cheese either. Even European cheeses that you attempt to make taste nothing like the original European ones.

>>11898432
Shredded cheeses are coated in wax powder.

>>11898797
There is literally nothing wrong with pasteurization

>>11898797
It doesn’t melt properly because of the anti caking agent. It’s not because of some quality in the cheese itself.
If you don’t think cheese can be pasteurized I don’t know what to tell you. It doesn’t have to be pasteurized to be cheese, but it can be.

>>11898797
America makes plenty of excellent cheese, especially in places like Wisconsin and Vermont, don't confuse super cheap poor person tier cheese with American cheese making in general

>>11898432
It costs $1.77, what did you expect

>Now melts!

>>11898852
Wrong brand, dummy.

>>11898797
>Even European cheeses that you attempt to make taste nothing like the original European ones.
The cheeses you make vary from town to town, so I'm pretty sure you're just being an elitist faggot at this point and have no idea what you're talking about. In fact I'm pretty sure you haven't tried any quality American cheese. Here's a starter level "imitator".

>>11898764
Imagine being angry at grated cheese

>>11898446
Because actual cheese is fucking expensive, when you can just get a bag of shredded cheese product for $2 a bag

>>11898797
European cheese is sub standard only a retard would imitate it when better cheese can be crafted by artisans with superior non halal ingredients

>>11898867
I’m not angry though.

>>11898876
It’s not cheese product. That’s a different thing, and it’s always labeled as such. OP’s photo is literally cheese that has been grated and coated with an anti-caking powder.

>>11898656
Holy fucking shit, are Americans so fucking lazy that they'll buy pre-shredded cheese, only to have to do a lot of extra work by rinsing it??? Woww

>>11898876
Cheese is $2-$3 a pound poorfag

>>11898887
You don’t always need cheese to melt

>>11898840
We have pasteurized cheeses here. They are dirt cheap and taste of nothing. You have to go for the unpasteurized ones which are aged. Cheddar for example is a great example. If it is mature or vintage, it is awful to shred as it crumbles up in your fingers. The crap you buy in bags is nasty and perfect shreds and flavourless. The whole point of cheese is the taste and texture. Extra mature and vintage cheddars have calcium lactate crystals in them. This is what makes them crumbly.

>>11898901
So you admit your cheese sucks

>>11898690
>>11898705
>white knighting corporations reducing our food supply to literal pig slop
>b-b-but muh corporate fascist state is under attack by libruhls
Fortunately the craft brew explosion in the US has proven that quality can win against inferior products against all odds even with the metaphorical boot on their neck.

>>11898897
That's called a cheese sandwich. If cheese goes in the oven or under the broiler, you want it to melt.

>>11898911
All I’m saying is that it’s real cheese. I never said it was high quality or even that I buy if.

>>11898909
Read the post again.

>>11898909
Only the cheaper end of the market. If you like cheese, you buy decent cheese.

>>11898923
Exactly the same in America

>>11898925
Your missing the point. America has no decent cheeses. The only good ones are imported from Europe.

>>11898939
But that’s not true at all.

>>11898939
>not eating cheese made locally down the street
Flyovers are retarded

>>11898944
I have lived in America and tasted different cheeses, even the best ones from Wisconsin. They are no match on European cheeses.

>>11898939
>Your missing the point. America has no decent cheeses. The only good ones are imported from Europe.
Yeah... you either live here and haven't bothered to look for a store or are an ignorant foreigner.

>>11898948
>buying city cheese

where do cheese come from?

>>11898976
You are wrong.

>>11898948
So everyone in your street can make cheddar and maintain it at a constant temperature and humidity without it spoiling? You have no clue about cheese making.

>>11898876
Your getting ripped off buying the small shredded bag of Kroger's get the big block. It'll last longer and is way cheaper per ounce

>>11898981
So you've tasted them, now go to Europe and taste their cheeses. Your opinion will change.

>>11898987
no u

>>11898992
>tfw your girlfriend finally invites you over to show you her cheese cave

>>11898901
>yurope has best cheeses
>some european cheeses are better than the select trashiest cheeses of the US

glad you sorted that all out.

>>11898987
How young, immature and badly educated can you be to post this comment.

>>11899011
So you are saying that everyone in the USA has a cheese cave? Time to start thinking about bedtime kid.

>>11899024
There are good American cheeses.

>>11899020
Even the ones that taste of nothing still melt properly.

>>11898985
>>11898992
>his town doesn't have small business cheese makers

>>11899030
No doubt you get your info from the "world" cheese competition. Organise and sponsored by the Winsconsin Cheese Company. Why do you think there are hardly any Europeans that enter this competition? The best cheese competition is in Britain. All entrants are European. Seems to lack the American contingent.

>>11899034
So do ours. Only the shitty pre-shredded stuff doesn’t.

>>11899029
>unable to take a joke that could be taken as a sex pun
Pretty sure you're the one who needs a nap.

>>11899066
I have lived over in USA. Your cheese does not melt properly.

>>11898444
I fucking hate this, I haven't bought ore grated cheese in years for this exact reason. The only exception is mozzarella since its the only form in which you can by the dehydrated stuff round here and fresh mozz isn't always what you want.

>>11899063
I’ve eaten cheese in America and in Europe. Some of the American cheese was good. Therefore, America has some good cheese.

>>11899083
Yes it does. Prove you’ve ever even set foot in America. I don’t think you have.

is it really cheese

>>11899095
Yes. Not good cheese, but cheese nonetheless

>>11899080
American womens pussies smell of cheese? And you openly admit it. You need to teach your bitches some personal hygiene..

>>11898876
Fucking woman lol.

>>11899094
I often visit on business for long periods. I have plenty of time to sample the cheeses. Prove me wrong

>>11898680
Based, fuck this cow.
>>11898692
WHAAA WHAAAA GIMME APPLE SAUCE

>>11899120
That’s not proof, retard.

On a tangent, I always hear that outside of Europe, decent European cheese is expense. I just did some Googling and legit parmesan comes in at roughly $20 per pound. Is that what you guys really consider expensive? Thats really not far off the cost over here in Bongland and it's not considered expensive or a luxury here.

>>11899124
I said I visited America regularly. It is up to you to disprove me.

>Another thread where we pretend euros don't stuff their maws with processed foods
Haven't seen this in a while

>>11898432
i don't know that brand

>>11899150
But it doesn't melt like normal proper cheese.

>>11898432
>>11899150
Pre-shredded cheese has so much cellulose in it, it doesn't melt.
Cellulose = sawdust
It constipates you, ruins the texture of the cheese and prevents it from melting - the only added convenience is you don't spend literally 1 minute to grate your own cheese from a block.

>>11899150
>now melts
We did it, guys, we finally beat the yuropoors at their own game!

>>11899181
mine melts, you must be doing it wrong. i've never heard this "shredded cheese is bad" thing, it's nearly the same thing. I set it on a hot hamburger, it melts, i put it on bread under the broiler, it melts, it melts fine on pizzas and nachos
if you don't do it long enough it'll be smearing shreds but it'll melt further

>>11899181
Okay, you can come over and clean my grater, too.

>>11899139
Dude people in England have way more money than we do generally.

>>11899300
Holy shit, stop! You fucking fat tub of shit, unwilling to do what's right. Fucking hope you get anal fissures.

>>11899139
Parm is about $6 a pound in the USA

>>11899493
GDP in England is about half the USA

>>11899543
Nope. Per capita GDP is higher in Ireland, Norway and Switzerland than the US which comes in at 19th with $59,500 and the UK coming in at 39th with $44,100. If you remove the scawrrry socialist CA portion of the US economy, the US drops into Africa and South American banana republic territory.

>>11899771
You forgot to adjust for purchasing power parity. UK is less than half the USA

>>11899827
My source was the CIA, what's yours?

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html

>>11898656
>rinsing cheese

>>11899959
You used data from 15 years ago. Hahahahaha lololol topkek

Parmigiano Reggiano best cheese

>>11899106

I got 6 year old cheddar here. so much win

>>11899150
>>11899165
There no word "cheese" on the cover. Notice it says topping.

>>11898692
Only if he shreds his own cheese on it amiright fellow American haha now let’s eat more heavily processed GMO food haha

>>11900084
What's wrong with GMO?

>>11899959
>>11900019
15 year old source is fucking lazy bro. you can't just drop CIA and then expect to gain clout.

>>11898948
Stupid fucking coaster have you ever looked up? Planes fly over you too dumb shit. Jesus Christ. You could have lived a cheap life and put millions in investments by now but you chose to suck off mexicans and pay for their healthcare like a good boy. I hope God sends you to hell.

>>11900089
are you fucking kidding me

>>11900095
not cheese but God wouldn't want you to want that for people, christian.

>>11898911
Oh fuck off you insufferable douchebag. Also stop associating your hipster faggotry with my craft beer industry.

>>11900051
>>11899165
>>11899181
>>11899284
if you never saw >>11899150 pic anywhere on 4chan before you are a newfag this pic is old as fuck

>>11899005
>the US doesnt already practically import every foodstuff of actual value from Europe
The world's changed a lot since the 90's, fellow 30 year old boomer.

>>11900089
Nothing. Eurtards and science deniers will autistic screech at GMOs even though there is literally nothing wrong with them. Trying to argue with them is like trying to convince an anti-vaxxer that vaccines don't cause autism.
Just don't bother trying. Really.

>>11900116
>believing what you read on /b/.
you deserve to be triggered

>>11900144
tldb

>>11900152
dont know what you mean by this but i have seen this image on 4chan on multiple boards mostly /ck/ up to 7+ years ago

>>11900144
>still believing vaccines don't cause autism
>anno Domino two thousand nineteen
wew

>>11900144
The problem is with pesticides

>>11900229
Exactly, and non-GMO foods tend to use more pesticides because they lack genetic pest-mitigating traits. GMO haters are the stupidest people on earth.

>>11900255
That’s just not true. They modify the plants to be able to withstand more and more powerful pesticides, because they make the fucking pesticides. It’s all about the (((money)))

>>11898876
The actual amount you get in a cheese is in WEIGHT! It’s no comparison, buying the block and grating is WAY CHEAPER

>>11900270
reading this made me retarded