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Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by Agingcoder »

nchi3 wrote: post #21
maremmano wrote: post #18

No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.

To be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.

No, really really no. Please try again ( and make sure you get proper cheese, not tasteless plastic which will lead you to believe they're the same)

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by Agingcoder »

dopidopHN wrote: post #57
nchi3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.

Oh. No. Really not. Comté is way more flavorful and tangy, and develop quartz of salt than crisp when you eat it.

The crystals are not salt but amino acid, mainly tyrosine.

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by lukas099 »

nchi3 wrote: post #21
maremmano wrote: post #18

No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.

To be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.

People are saying no, but nobody is offering a more-similar pair of cheeses.

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by guavaroo »

bradwood wrote: post #51

Reminded me of the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch

“The original codename for Python Package Index (the central software repository for the Python programming language) was "CheeseShop" in reference to this sketch. The current standard packaging format for Python software is called "wheel", as a reference to a wheel of cheese.”

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by version_five »

tluyben2 wrote: post #48

I got 15 cheeses from FR a few days ago (all French cheeses from the vicinity of Blois) and it had 100% of them wrong. Cheese 16 was a cheddar and it categorised that as Comte, but now I see here that it only recognises French ones? I do like the idea though; my wife can recognise many on sight and smell but I am more of a barbarian and know practically nothing about these except that I like or not like; it would be…

Funny, I just tried it on a comte and it thought it was gruyere. Still probably a better guess than a lot of people I know would give

(Edit, reading below I see others noticed the same thing)

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by _n_b_ »

version_five wrote: post #66
tluyben2 wrote: post #48

I got 15 cheeses from FR a few days ago (all French cheeses from the vicinity of Blois) and it had 100% of them wrong. Cheese 16 was a cheddar and it categorised that as Comte, but now I see here that it only recognises French ones? I do like the idea though; my wife can recognise many on sight and smell but I am more of a barbarian and know practically nothing about these except that I like or not like; it would be…

Funny, I just tried it on a comte and it thought it was gruyere. Still probably a better guess than a lot of people I know would give (Edit, reading below I see others noticed the same thing)

Compté basically is Gruyère: same recipe, same process, same taste profile, just slightly different terroir.

(https://www.thephcheese.com/gruyere-and-comte-two-of-a-kind)

Re: Cheezam – Shazam for Cheese

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Post by UncleMeat »

jihadjihad wrote: post #20
maremmano wrote: post #18

No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.

My guess is it's a labeling issue -- Comté is sometimes confusingly referred to as Gruyère de Comté, though it is obviously not a Swiss cheese.

To me it seems much more likely that it is just unable to distinguish these cheeses. Both cheeses look very similar both in the cheese itself and the rind. They are also packaged and served in similar ways.
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