/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17116677
I’m with you. I found them revolting between the ages of 12-30 and then all of a sudden I rediscovered the glorious cheese.

>>17116677
there's no better cheese to put on a hamburger, or for a grilled cheese sandwich.
any europeon or redditor who claims otherwise is just a hot sauce swilling soyman

>>17116677

I've lived in the USA my whole life and only once have I ever had American cheese, when I forgot my lunch and had to get it from the school cafeteria. Is it as bad/good as people say?

>>17116677
I also love the American cheese. There is no substitute. Birgers, grilled cheese, mac and cheese, bologna sandwich, queso dip, it just works. If you put a burger in front of me with cheddar on it I'll chase you down and cram it, in me, then shit it back out on your cheddar loving stupid face.

>>17116686
The individually wrapped ones vary from acceptable to inedible, the "deluxe" or "deli" version is usually cheddar and colby mixed with some emlusifiers to make it smoother and better melting and only a total snob would have an issue with it

>>17116681
I actually agree even though I enjoy the high end stuff regularly. Blue cheese is good on burgers too.

I throw a couple of slices under my ramen

>>17116720
>Blue cheese is good on burgers too.
that makes sense, and now I want one. The oil drips out of most of the cheddars and other sliced cheeses and leaves them too "rubbery" I find, that's why processed cheese is tops for those two things.

>>17116787

I love American cheese but unfortunately its been far overshadowed by Kraft "singles" to the point that most people assume American Cheese is literally a kraft single

I assume the most premium grade american cheese was the literal government cheese they use to store in caves and give to people as rations

>>17116677
>subtle mustard notes
Not sure what kind of American cheese you're getting that have anything mustard related.
My favorite American cheese is Cooper Cheese.

>>17116677
>processed industrial cheese substitute
>cheese flavor
Pick one.

>>17116681
I only use cheddar for burgers and grilled cheese. Never been a big fan of American, even as a kid.

>>17116720
> the taste of Roquefort added to the beef

>>17117146
To each their own I guess, but I feel you're missing out

>>17116677
yeah has its places
started in on velveeta for mac n cheese recently
its super dope
my cacio pepe is fine without, ya dig
but cheese product has a place

>>17116681
I agree, but also those are the only good applications

>>17117146
Cheddar is great on thick charred burgers, American on everything else. It’s almost like a queso effect, it just melts perfectly.

>>17117171
well, I would add putting squares of american cheese onto soda crackers and microwaving it until it's melted is also on the list

>>17117179
By the way, I kill every thread I post in. This is my life.

>>17117171
If you agree at all you're wrong. Real cheese is better in every application, unless you're on welfare, in prison, or working in an arctic mining camp.

>>17117099
He was in Tasmania, they don’t have grills in Tasmania.

OK, maybe he didn’t put it in the pan long enough, he was in a rush.

Now you’re complaining about his bread too thick? That’s all he had, in Tasmania, thick slices of bread.

He didn’t have ten minutes for each side, twenty minutes for grilled cheese.

a slice of american and a slice of provolone together into a grilled cheese sandwich is a power move

>>17117126
It took until this reply for some hipster to point out muh "it's not real cheese!" Meme. I'm impressed actually.

>>17116677
Gruyère tastes much better than American "cheese" and still is quite meltable when it's young.

>>17116677
Raclette is objectively the best melting cheese

>>17117564
Based

>>17117564
Makes your house smell like feet though

>>17116677
I'd agree with you on most of that anon, but for the mac and cheese idea I tend to only use american as a starter for my cheese sauce since it's full of stabilizers and emulsifiers that stops it from splitting. For flavor I tend to use stronger semi hard cheese but that's just my personal taste

>>17117558
Tastes like dirty feet, or "earthy and complex" as you faggots like to say to convince yourselves your cheese tastes good

>>17117786
Wow being a tastelet must suck

>>17117124
>Not sure what kind of American cheese you're getting that have anything mustard related.
You must be a tastelette who can't appreciate flavor profiles. It's like saying whiskey has hints of vanilla, almond, earthiness.

>>17117558
Gruyere is a fucking meme mainstream "cooking" websites like bon apatite, epicurious and seriouseats like to push because it's "fancy" and "uncommon". It's literal hipster shit. Gouda is far superior to Gruyere but you don't see anyone talking about it.

>>17116677

Yeah, I've come back around on it too. It has its place as it's damn good at what it does. If I'm eating cheese my favorite it going to be blue but if I'm making burger I will only use American now. Anything else is trying too hard and will only disappoint

It's one of few "cheeses" that's good in combination with other foods but can't enjoy solo. Velveeta is the same. I can't eat much solo.

you can get sharp American at the deli, it stands out a little better on burgers

>>17116677
> *May not contain cheese

>>17116681
I agree, there's a reason "fancy" cheese is associated with pretentious homosexuals

>>17118694
In America by law it must be cheese to be called cheese,

americans must be lined up and shot
their bodies thrown down a great hole
their flesh burnt by flames
their bones crushed by rocks

>>17118715
That’s true …

> Traditional cheese is ground, combined with emulsifying agents and other ingredients, mixed and heated until it forms a "melted homogeneous" mixture.

>>17118737
>emulsifying agents
its just salt and water in proper American cheese

>>17117197
Enough already, nobody gives a shit!

>>17116759
Under your ramen? Why not on top?

good for hot sandwiches but if I'm eating cold cuts or a cold sandwich I'd rather have cheddar or colby

>>17116677
>subtle mustard notes
mustard? WTF most AC has a slight smokey taste to it but mustard?

Holy shit, that Tillamook cheese was AWFUL. Especially that cheese sauce on the burgers at their factory store.


I've had better cheese sauce At a gas station over nachos.

>>17120240
>Tillamook cheese was AWFUL.
huh it's not a 4 year English chedda but it's not bad, about on par with Cabot

>>17120199
>cheddar or colby
Does nobody like provolone?

>>17120324
Yeah but provolone is more for certain sandwiches/dishes

>>17118371
gouda is so damn good. the mass produced kind is as cheap as cheddar and it tastes twice as better than cheddar

I find American Cheese harder to melt. I like that is maintains its character so well, but if I want cheese that quickly reaches a good gooey state then other cheese work better.

>>17116681
I like both, though I need to eat less hot sauce.

>>17120394
>I like both, though I need to eat less hot sauce.
hah, fair enough

>>17120324
Provolone is not a traditional Anglo-American cheese

>>17120517
Italian cheese is good enough for a mention

>>17117170
>velveeta
Unfathomably based.

>>17118737
>emulsifying agents
This, if you eat egg whites you're basically consuming pure cancer/ADHD/autism/HIV

>>17116677
>subtle mustard notes
The only time my american cheese tasted like mustard was when a little plastic container of chinese mustard leaked in the fridge and everything tasted faintly of it. Even the water that came out of the door somehow tasted like chinese mustard.

>>17120549
I like provolone cheese. It’s good. It wasn’t a criticism. But that’s why, I think, it’s not sold as process american cheese.

But this product exists I just learned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provel_cheese

I wish I could still get Cooper sharp white here in the Midwest.

>>17116677
Excellent digits, brother.

American process cheese (product) is perfectly fine if you don't hold it to the same standard of regular cheese.

It makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches, burgers or even a decent mac n cheese.

Yeah, it's super unnatural, but it does its job well.

A good quality American cheese is better than anything else on a cheesesteak sandwich.

I'm sad that some people in the world don't have access to it. It's certainly shitty cheese, but it has its place, and it's quite nice here and there.

>>17121238
>Yeah, it's super unnatural
Cheese ingestion in general and humans eating dairy product from another species is entirely unnatural.
>American cheese...... .
Cheesteak is best with provolone.

>>17121464
Everything we do is unnatural. American cheese just happens to occur out of traditional cheese processing. It's fine.

Cheesesteak is best with mozzarella AND provolone.

Provolone doesn't melt nearly as well as mozz. It does has way better flavor, but on its own, it sucks hard.

>>17121485
Chest whiz on USA meat slab sandwich

>>17121485
>Cheesesteak is best with mozzarella AND provolone.
>Provolone doesn't melt nearly as well as mozz. It does has way better flavor, but on its own, it sucks hard.
Eat a real steak sandwich boy.

>>17117558
>meltable when it's young
groomer

>>17121519
that's hot

>>17121485
>Cheesesteak is best with mozzarella
Stop posting.

As a britoid, American cheese is great for burgers, hot dogs, ham sandwiches. Not all the time,but a lot of the time.