Calling all cheese lovers... abomination??

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Hi everyone.

DD is in bed and I'm sat on the sofa currently scoffing a bowl of sketty hoops and grade 6 cheddar cheese. Ya know the one. Strong, gritty, salty.

it reminded me of a conversation I had with my best friend a few weeks ago. She has rather, how can I put it, juvenile taste buds. A slim suggestion of Edam and she would cower.
she cooks from scratch, as do I. She buys grade 1, occasionally pushing that boat right out, grade 2.

what in the finest pardon is that? I always assumed the pussy cheeses mild cheeses were for kids. Until I had my own child who will take chunks out of my black bomber. I cannot imagine making a béchamel for my lasagne with, effectively, milk?

AIBU? Are you a mild cheeses eater who buys the grade 1 or 2?

I fucking love cheese and I guessed a lot of mumsnetters do so thought I'd start a thread.

Love a good blue on a cracker! Not as a salad dressing though. Christmas is Stilton and port.

In Sweden.

Technically our ones in the netted bags are called mini babybels, we just don’t have the bigger option!

I know, I was just trying to be witty haha

I got a smoked scamorza from Waitrose recently - it must never cross my threshold again.

I could have eaten it like a tangerine.

Thanks to cheeses!

There are times for a strong, artisan cheese and times for supermarket own-brand mild cheddar.

My DS was brought up on Extra Strong Cheddar and crackers. He won't try Blue cheese though, thinks it's mouldy and I can't tell him it's not, lol.
This is an opportunistic moment to ask if anyone has had 'stilton with garlic and mushrooms'? I first had it in Belgium and then found a small cheese shop at Liverpool Street Station. It's available in a specialist cheese shop in Yorkshire (Hebden Bridge). I always ask for it elsewhere with a desperate look on my face and get odd looks. It's divine.

I had a lovely toastie for lunch with the M&S oak smoked version of the Cornish cruncher. Absolutely gorgeous and just mentioning it has made me want to go make another now.

When I rule the earth, there will be no place on it for mild cheddar.

Mild cheeses with other flavours can be permitted, but they are for layer with multiple cheeses to give a complex flavour profile... and paired with things with a more delicate flavour that can't stand up to a strong mouth-stripping cheddar. Not as every day cheeses!

I agree with this.

Mostly I buy Lake District Mature by default but I grew up with mild cheddar and kept buying it for years because I didn't know better.

I had deep fried Wensleydale from a chippy in the Yorkshire Dales and it was amazing.

I love Green Thunder. And baked Baron Bigod! Yum!

I don't like babybel or Edam - not because of the taste, but because of the rubbery flavour. Dairylea is horrific and I'd never buy it. Not do I like blue cheese.

I LOVE a gritty crumbly salty extra mature cheddar, ALWAYS my first choice. But I won’t lie, I’ll eat any cheddar. If I was stuck I’d even eat a bag of Babybel 🤣🤣

I love cheese but I’m not precious about it, and don’t always thing stronger = better. I love a blue, love a crumbly Lancashire, love smoked, love charcoal, even love Edam. I’m yet to find a cheese I’ve not enjoyed!

I like a proper extra mature cheddar which has a decent bite and melts wonderfully on toast.
The best cheddar I've tasted is Isle of Mull cheddar (it's unpasteurised). Some of the worst has actually come from Cheddar!

Cheese is just bliss.

I do like a delicate cheese but cheddar needs to be really strong..

we go to a pub cheese night once a month - a cheese monger comes and you buy your cheese by weight to go with your cheeseboard. They usually bring about 20 cheeses. It’s brilliant.

there’s also the cheese bar in Covent Garden - they have a conveyor belt!

then the courtyard dairy near Settle is amazing too…

I am so excited my 14 year old is finally gaining good taste in cheese….

I need to know where this is!

Oooh Cheese…… now I want Cheese & crackers🤣🤣🤣
love a laughing cow & a daividstow crackler so both ends of the spectrum .
not keen on the bouncy mild cheddar apologies though.

Hello! This thread was made for me. I’m a cheesemonger and buy cheese for a living….

Strong cheese = quality cheese, is super market bull shit I’m afraid, and those numbers mean very little (lovely bit of marketing though). Ditto ‘older is better. There are lots of incredible cheeses that are younger, milky, delicate, made seasonally and delicious! Strong cheeses can also be amazing; but many that you’ll find more widely available have been designed to be stronger - often using starter cultures more commonly associated with french cheeses (think of a starter culture a bit like a starter for sourdough, it’s one of the key ingredients in cheese making and it dictates the flavour profile, style, rind etc).

At the end of the day - enjoy the style you love, I love cheese so much I made it my career… I would highly recommend seeking out a good cheesemongers or cheese shop that lets you try cheeses before you buy though !

And this🤣🤣🤣 just told DH I need to visit!!🤣

This is actual bliss

Hawes chippy!

I buy vintage or extra mature cheddar, never thought to do anything different for ds until nursery said oh we didn't know he doesn't eat cheese, I was surprised because he loves cheese, he then piped up with it doesn't taste like cheese here! And pulled a bit of a face. Mild cheddar is an abomination and serves no purpose.

I really miss one that Morrisons did which was mature cheddar with English mustard, it was so good on toast

Mild or medium cheddar just shouldn't be allowed, got to be extra mature. But I do love other milder cheeses, love Cheshire, Wensleydale, comte. Love a goats cheese covered in ash, brie, a really ripe camembert, manchego especially with some quince jelly, gruyère, chaorce and of course parmesan.

Oi oi ,you take that back 😁
I love strong blue cheese and yes I'm late 50s.