Great, so we are now being fed microchips. "Honey is the parmezzan more old or are we munching on microchips?"
Feed it to the dog.
“There’s a smart dog!”
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fresh tomatoes are Usally pretty bland 11 months of the year. So canned is the way to go because they are ripe when canned and retain most of the flavors
You seem to mean off-season where you're saying fresh.
They are red they look like tomatoes they just taste like nothing that’s what I mean. Those are available most of the time the other kind almost never
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There's plenty of great American cheddars that are as good as anything I've had from the UK.
I don't believe it's not doable, but all I've seen of North American supermarkets is 'cheddar-style' processed cheese and similar abominations; is food-buying just different, does anyone wanting half-decent cheese go to a cheesemonger or farmers' market or something?
Every American supermarket sells blocks of perfectly good, normal cheese. You can get Vermont cheddar all over the northeast, at the very least.
Where you might be disappointed is if you like "extra mature" British cheddar, which is not really equivalent to "extra sharp" American cheddar. Personally I find both unappealing.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426821.
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#185I found technical details about the device: https://www.isenet.it/product/pharmaseq-products/ It's tiny (500 microns), passive, photocell-powered (you point a laser at it), and encapsulated in an inert SiO2 coating.
I don't suppose anyone has one of these chips? I'd be interested in taking die photos.
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I just checked. The real stuff from my local Costco cost me $13.99/lb. At that price, there's no good reason for me to buy anything else.
I swear the buyers at Costco must be living their best life.
Indeed. I've learned about the fake Gruyère from this thread. Why bother when the real thing is not that expensive?
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Try aging your supermarket-bought cheese (the non-AOP parmesan and gruyere). You can do so in your kitchen fridge, but stick the cheeses in a small plastic container with a tight-fitting lid because they need high moisture (at least 70% - and that's relative moisture). Open the box when you see condensation forming on its walls and wipe it down with a paper towel. Then close it again. That's about all the work you ne…
Is there a faster way to age parmesan?
That is the fast way. Normally it should be aged when it's still a head of cheese and not a slice in someone's fridge. Far as I can tell that takes more than a year, just because it's such a big head of cheese. The advantage of aging a mere slice is that it ages many times faster.
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I love the fact about them being coops and having the ability to borrow with their cheese as collateral. It is so old world and so wholesome. I'd like to borrow against my cheese one day.
What type of cheese do you make?
This made me laugh so hard, not an ounce of bad intent to the previous post.
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#189How is the source of this not The Onion?!
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love the fact about them being coops and having the ability to borrow with their cheese as collateral. It is so old world and so wholesome. I'd like to borrow against my cheese one day.
It's common for plant farmers in smaller countries too. I interviewed at a company that wanted to help banks lend to tiny farmers who have to borrow against future harvests to afford fertilizer / seed / equipment maintenance for the season ahead. Since many of these small farmers are geographically and technologically a long way off from where the banks are at, they don't get great rates because the banks (currently)…
This is how debt peons are made, historically. Kinda sad to see the same patterns in the modern world.