Which cheeses are cool at the moment?

[Drizzledrozzle]

Cool probably doesn't mean cool anymore, god I feel old

At a weekend away with some of my most hipster (but in a good nearly-40 way, not a twatty 23yr old way) friends and three of them independently said their favourite current cheese is Comte. This can't be coincidence, is comte having a moment? Which other cheeses are cool?

My personal favourite is castello blue. I have no idea how hipster this is or not but I think it is on a par with blue nun

Cheese is dead to me. Years of loyalty and adoration and now it gives me squits and migraines.

Cool cheeses 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Just eat what you like. Cool cheeses 😂😂😂😂. I live in France, home of the cool cheese. We just eat what we enjoy eating, maybe Laughing Cow or Babybel. Maybe Epoisse. . .

I'm not a big fan of hard cheese (will make an exception for cumin gouda), so I'll pass on the comté.

But blue castello is the food of the Gods - I get through a half wheel, if not more, of this a week. 🤤

I have seen it all now. People trying to out cheese each other.

Viva la mini cheddar.

Ah, epoisse...

@LilMadAgain : hahaha. Totally. (But I still vote: epoisse.)

EpoisseS. Was so busy fighting my autocorrect (that wanted it to be Eloise) that I didn't bother correcting myself.

Cheese should never be cool, it should be room temp 💥🤗

I love cheese but i cant abide anything blue/off cheesey. It just tastes of mould. Im just not a fan of a mould type taste.
However I assume something blue or off related is always in fashion or cool in the cheese world.

Ill stick my hard hat and chainmail on for this; I love the wensleydale with cranberries cheese. That cheap tat in the supermarkets.
I just know all the cool cheese people are probably going to throw rocks at me for saying that....you may all proceed

I can’t stand these posts about cheese from people who know nothing about cheese. I love compte but it has to be lait cru
matured for 2 years.

I also hate these stupid ,snobbish posts about fashionable cheeses, wines etc. Just grow up and buy things you like, and recognise if your ‘friends’ don’t like them,and say they don’t like them they are not really friends.

Geez, it's a light-hearted thread - no need to take it so seriously.

And you're being pretty 'snobbish' yourself by telling people who don't know about cheese not to talk about it?!

I like manchego, but my favourite hard cheese is Hafod which is a Welsh cave aged cheddar.

I recently discovered gjetost, which is a Norwegian cheese. If you love cheese and love fudge, it's like a cross of the two. It's divine. When I searched for stockists online, Waitrose came up as one of them (along with The Cheese Society who do a subscription box, I was very tempted).

I can't stand blue cheese, the smell makes me gag, and as I'm allergic to Penicillin, it's probably wise to avoid it.

I made some soft cheese from my breast milk. Matured it wrapped in a nappy. It wowed everyone at the local organic farmers market.

fromage de prépuce is worth looking out for in Carrefour

Pickachew *
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My favourites are Port Salut, Aldi's Wensleydale with cranberries, Brie and a good crumbly Lancs.

I do like a cheeseboard. My XH was once a little disappointed with a cheeseboard brought by friends - 'they only brought three cheeses and two of them were fruity'

I can’t stand these posts about cheese from people who know nothing about cheese. I love compte but it has to be lait cru matured for 2 years.

You nearly had me there until you misspelled Comte.

Manchego, yarg/jarg

Another one for Brillat Savarin; like the creamiest brie you have ever tastes. In the UK, I haven't seen it in the shops and have ordered it from online cheese mongers, in the US it was sold in Whole Foods and this summer in France I found it easily in the supermarche-a 'Super U' I think.

My wanky hipster friends have been banging on about cambozola recently. Cross between Camembert and Gorgonzola.

I've recently discovered roblochon (no idea how to spell it) it's so funny it tries to escape!
Also love the laughing cow blue cheese triangles.

This thread has made me laugh out loud...I was recently on a camping trip and offered out my comte declaring it was the 'fromage de jour' . I must be a hipster! Truth be told it was Vauxhall living friends that recommended said cheese, they are the true hipsters. I'm a sucker for the moment.

I lived in France for a fair few years and know a bit about their cheese. Comté is good but, as a pp said, only if matured for at least 2 years.
Chaumes and Port Salut are mass produced processed crap cheese.
If you want to impress check out some more obscure cheese like Langrès or Gaperon or Banon.
Tbh though my favourite cheese is cambazola - definitely not hip.

If Comte and cheddar had a fight, cheddar would win. And everyone would cheer.

I thought vegan cheese is cool now?

Made out of cashew nuts or something

It's what the hipsters around here eat.

I have a cheese shop round the corner from me. It's not open until Tuesday, but next time I'm in I'll ask them what's "cool" atm.

Oh and I like Caprice des Dieux, which I presume is the continental equivalent of Dairylea.