AIBU to wash my cheese?

[SENcatsandfish]

I buy pre grated cheese, but it always has that starch coating on and when it melts it goes a bit funny, and the texture and what it looks like put me off. So I chuck it in a sieve, rinse it, pat it dry and then use it as I normally would.

Someone looked at me as if id grown 2 heads when I was doing this so is it not a done thing? Am I the only person washing my cheese?

So, unreasonable = what on earth are you doing?
You are being reasonable = melted starchy cheese is gross

• [Note from MNHQ: Please read OP's subsequent posts before responding, especially the very next post in which she explains that she has a condition that affects her joints, including her wrists, which can easily be dislocated by grating cheese...]

Did you not read the OP's updates?

when you live and adapt all the time you sometimes forget about the obvious

Its a really common thing to forget.

Have a look at the gadgets suggested here but do you have any access to an occupational therapist or similar? Its not a bad idea to do a kind of ‘audit’ of the activities which have become difficult and the general gadgets available these days. It can be a game changer.

YABU. if you don't like grated cheese, why are you buying it?? Surely it's less hassle to just buy a block and grate it. Washing cheese is weird 😂

Sigh - because OP has a condition that affects her joints and therefore can't just "buy a block and grate it".

Laughing at someone's physical limitations is weird.

My very first thought was a joint condition that made grating difficult or painful, but my food processor has a grating attachment, and there are some inexpensive heating gadgets to help with stuff like that. So yeah, buy a block and grate it at home, heck get someone else to batch grate the whole block for you. Don't wash cheese 😂

Electric graters are available, actually.

Funny that no-one else has mentioned this in almost 300 replies

spoiler alert: they have "actually"

I have one on my Kenwood Chef, l'd be surprised if stand alone ones weren't available as well.

I just wanted to say thank you again. I have now bought an electric machine that chops and grates. Ive also looked on some other sites like you suggested and ive ordered a few other mobility aids for the kitchen. I really enjoy cooking but its getting tricky.

I think part of it has been that I couldn't accept that my mobility was making simple things like cooking dinner for my children painful and more difficult. But seeing the lengths im going to like washing cheese 🤣🤣, and this thread in general, has helped so much. I'm going to eagerly await my new cooking gear and im so looking forward to being able to do more things in the kitchen with less pain.

Thank you everyone for showing me that washing cheese was silly 🤣 and that its perfectly fine to need disability aids. Thank you all, I feel a lot more accepting of my condition.

If ever you're wondering if there's a reliable gadget to do X, just shout out here. I bought my quopener after seeing it mentioned here. Something went pop in my hand when I was dispensing my pain meds, last night, so you can imagine how much I love a pain saving gadget.

I've never heard of washing cheese, but FWIW it does appear that the OP is not the only one:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/megsullivan/wash-your-cheese-for-optimal-melting-fs

Following, just to see who else washes cheese......😇

Hey, I don’t like the additives either. I also have a problem with my joints, so I buy a block and grate it in the food processor. I have a ton of kitchen gadgets and use them to make life easier. I also freeze the grated cheese to make it last longer.

Well this is educational, I had NO idea you could get electric graters! Off to buy one asap!