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• checkmymixtapeyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly not sure why people get so upset about American cheese. It’s just cheese with an emulsifier in it that softens it. Best burger cheese by far.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Best burger cheese by far.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      American cheese is the best cheese for a cheeseburger, because it melts without splitting.

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  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s less the emulsifier softens it, more it allows water to the added. Cheese is largely fat/oil which doesn’t mix easily with water.

    The emulsifier allows you to melt and cast left over cheese, and add water to increase it’s volume. Its original invention was to make use of scrap cuts of cheese.

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  • tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Best burger cheese by far.

    How can you possibly say such nonsense when swiss and muenster both exist

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    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Swiss is an abomination of a cheese that should never have been made. It’s hard, dry, flavorless and is terrible at melting. Not even just for burgers there’s no need at all for swiss cheese in general. P.S. modern Swiss uses sawdust to make the holes. Enjoy eating your sawdust.

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      • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Youre american. American cheese is barely cheese. Highly processed, plastic garbage.

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Then you need to try a few different brands of American cheese to find out that the most affordable options often use so much vegetable oil that it basically tastes like oil with some whey powder in it.

    Yes there are good quality American cheese offerings, Land o Lakes and Boars Head both have an actual cultured American cheese.

    But nearly all of the non-premium brands are frankly unpleasant.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You clearly haven’t had a burger with a good quality bun & patty grilled to medium rare with layers of cheddar, Colby, pepper jack and Swiss melted on top

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      None of those cheeses melt well, they split and leak oil. Sure they get soft and gooey but a bit of sodium citrate would make it better.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What do you mean by it “splitting?” How does real cheese not “melt well” exactly? And oily cheese? Where do you even get oily cheese?

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• tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hasn’t it always been called rapeseed in the UK?

  As I understand it, canola oil as a term is used predominantly only in the US and Canada, with canola itself being a portmanteau of Canadian Oil

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  • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    CANadian OiL, Low Acidity

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    • anachronist@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not a myth. CAN-OLA came from a lab in canada.The rapeseed article on wiki has a section about it.

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      • isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s the -ola part I’m not sure about. “Can” 100% stands for Canada, no question about it

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here in the USA something that says “guacamole inspired” would for sure have zero percent avocado lol

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• shutz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Canola is a North American thing. AFAIK the British are familiar with the term “rapeseed” and don’t need the rebranding.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    canola is a specific cultivar of rapeseed, regular rapeseed contains more erucic acid. there is no good reason for this because erucic acid has no proven health impacts on humans but they did it anyway

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• Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think that’s the difference between UK law and US law

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• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actually Canola is a stupid Canadian thing thought up so they could sell it to stupid Americans.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Swiss, Milk alternatives like barley milk, aren’t allowed to contain “milk” in the name, because they’re not milk.

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  • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly, I think thats just nonsense.

    Everyone is very much aware that Oat Milk and Soy Milk and all the other non-dairy milks don’t have any cow juice in them

    Just the name itself makes it clear.

    It’s as equally stupid, in my opinion, as the argument that we shouldn’t call a vegetarian or vegan burger a “burger” because people might think it has meat when it doesn’t.

    It’s all a play by the dairy and meat industries to make vegan alternatives sound unappetising, and it’s very transparent.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What about coconut milk? (Or is it just not called that anyway)

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  "american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print

  Maybe this is just because I live in Wisconsin where the dairy and alcohol lobbies are both extremely strong, but most not-icecream is labeled as a “frozen desert” and those terrible plastic Impersonations of cheese also aren’t labeled as cheese at all. Granted the graphic design does a ton of the heavy lifting. On the “frozen desert” it shows a scoop of ice cream in decidedly ice cream like packaging and says the flavor really huge, then in much smaller print below that “frozen desert”

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