Rolling cheeses 2018

Do you just eat it on bread or nibble on it?

I just eat pieces of it, though usually with bread every few bites. and of course wine is good to cut the acidity.

top right looks tres interesante. OMG @ that pic

yes sorry it's le chaumeS

I saw that they put fourme d'ambert on pizza here so I heated it up and make a little basil, tomate sandwich. I like the melt. I like that it isn't as "nervy" as harder blue cheeses.

Chaumes qui peuvent

yeah I never really dug what the usaians called "blue cheese" ; French ones seem to me to be butterier, less sweet, & yes, less "nervy" is a good way to put it.

Don't personally eat local blue cheese but dolce latte is fab

I like blue cheeses on burgers. Stilton and roquefort with port is nice.

I eat such trash cheeses compared to you guys. You're cheese-shaming me.

I got some double gloucester w chives and it's okay but only with like meat and a pickle...not by itself. And it was like $7 for a bit slightly larger than a cassette tape. Where do I go from here??

In Orbit, cheese in NYC is way too expensive. I stuck to the $1.99 blocks of orange whatever.

oh, i love the gloucester spread with some dijon. not sure what i'd recommend since i don't know what is accessible to you. i've mostly only had access to tj's for the last couple years - i esp. like their double cream gouda, aged gouda, goat brie and cambozola. maytag is a great crumbly bleu. and the gorgonzola is pretty good (makes a great pasta sauce just melted with a bit of pasta water)

I totally forgot about TJs. They have a nice italian truffle cheese that you can eat on its own.

I haven't been to TJs for a while because I basically have to take a day off to go when the line isn't all the way out the door. But I'm passing through Grand Central tmw, maybe I'll stop at the Murray's stand.

Murrays has really good pimento cheese.

oh yeah, the truffle cheese is nice. xp. have made a great grilled cheese with that and some good crusty bread and kale massaged with reduced balsamic

Love Murrays. Try the Montgomery cheddar!

people talk shit about monterey jack but it's fucking awesome for what it is, i.e. cheap soft cheese with a bit of bite

yeah, i def have time for jack on occasion. also like havarti and muenster for mild meltable inexpensive cheese

Cheddar used to be my basic cheese for everything but tbh it can be too assertive--even though I really love extra-sharp cheddar, sometimes you don't want CHEDDAR, y'know? Havarti is The One, it's the perfect mid-range cheese. It has lots of creaminess & it can melt, and it's adaptable flavor-wise but it's not all mouth feel with NO flavor like provolone is. Havarti on a Lender's bagel is probably a top-10 childhood flavor memory for me.

yes yes yes to all of this

the other cheese i picked up while in LA last week was a lovely gouda-like goat one from Wisconsin
https://fromagination.com/product/evalon-cheese/

Fromagination is the best shop, with the worst name.

I prolly said it above but I eggs with cheddar is best.

Also, i finally broke into my saint nectaire this morning. Where have you been my entire life you dirty motherfucker?

CHEESE!

Nice

I love saint nectaire too. I usually buy too much though : it dries out a bit more quickly than I expect

only occasionally getting reinforcement Saint Nectaire wheels from France, we keep it in the freezer. Less barbaric than it sounds!

Sounds civilised at to me

at=af natch

so two weeks ago, walked into my old employer's new place downtown, walked out a lot poorer but in possession of an entire p'tit basque

finally finished it tonight, feel like i'm oozing lipids from every pore ... this is why i NEVER go visit my old boss

it wouldn't have been so bad if i had spread it out but instead i finished it in like 4 epic sessions (one was with friends tbf)

this is also why i never go into whole foods or any other upmarket grocery

fuckin aged gouda

Is that safe?

not for the gouda

it is like..... it's like mega-cheddar

Is that safe?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:51 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not for the gouda

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:52 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol!

Any cheese with tyrosine crystals is a cheese I want to marry

You are clearly more of a romantic than Tracer Hand

Made pimento cheese this past weekend. I want to spread it everywhere, so delicious.

this post lacks the sophistication of much of this thread but -- had comté i think for the first time and dear god.

It was good? Yesterday, I finally took out the st nectaire I had in the freezer from my last trip to France in July. Still delicious.

yeah thin slices of Parmesan are right up there

― Under the influence of the Ranters (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:56 (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's the only cheese that really, actually smells like feet and yet one of the tastiest (no tarantino)

― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:59 (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah here gruyere absolutely smells like feet, possible not even human feet like

would have it above cheddar on most omelettes/gratins tho, notwithstanding yerac being correct about cheddar being best with eggs and in sandwiches as a rule

xp I loved it. It was 15 month something or other that I bought a square centimeter of. There is something different there compared to the gruyure I've had. Most painful part was realizing I had stayed in France outside of geneva in grad school for a conference. Was so close to comté bliss but too poor and ignorant.

I need new french cheeses to try. Maybe one day I will finally get the Mont D'or. Problematic when I have to eat the entire thing myself.

You probably already know all the main ones so I don’t know what to suggest. Chèvre, vache ou brebis ?

i just learned the word for sheep, so thx!

I should just blindly choose a couple.

oh, yum
https://www.murrayscheese.com/pyrenees-brebis

holy cow. ought not to have gone to that website cuz now i feel like my life with be empty without https://www.murrayscheese.com/white-truffle-moliterno