What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
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What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
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Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#2Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?"
A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar.
(And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#3Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
Extra sharp of course
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#4Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
If it isn't made by the cheddar process how can it be called cheddar? How lax can your labelling regulations be?
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#5Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
I've never understood that. If someone were to hand you a glass of yellow milk, I'm guessing you wouldn't be too eager to drink it. I get that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, but I ain't ever seen a yellow cow.
As an american with enough laps around the sun to have some experience, I'm constantly aghast with what we've allowed to happen to food.
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#6Title should be: "What gives cheddar cheese its flavor?" I doubt most people would agree that it tastes 'so good' and nothing is said about why a fan would find that flavor good.
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#7Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
Extra sharp of course
Sorry. Has to be 'Vintage' so that it's "Strong and Bitey".
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#8Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
All orange cheese is artificially colored (even in the UK) and has been for centuries. It's mostly annatto now. Historically it was things like beet or carrot juice.
Natural cheese at most has a yellowish color (like butter, though a lot of that is also colored -- and again has been for a very long time).
"Cheddaring" is a process (most famously used in the Cheddar region of England, but not exclusive to there), referring to kneading salt into the raw cheese curds.
It's not a protected designation, nor is there any real difference between the way cheddar cheese is made in England and the way it's made in other countries.
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#9Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
That someone is even pointing this out should give most people in the US a cause for concern. Sadly most people in the US have no idea what real cheese or chocolate actually tastes like.
Re: What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?
#10Ah, but the important question is "WHICH cheddar cheese?" A lot of cheese is manufactured, some of it even colored orange artificially (especially in the US), which is labelled 'Cheddar' but in reality is nothing at all like a true cheddar. (And then of course, there are those tasteless pale, plastic rubbery sheets labelled 'Kraft Cheddar Slices'.)
If it isn't made by the cheddar process how can it be called cheddar? How lax can your labelling regulations be?
It is, in fact, made by the cheddar process. OP is incorrect.