Submitted 4 months ago by GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Got some gruyere at the store. Never had it. I love cheese. Opened it up and got punched by a strong funk. Was excited for strong flavor. Tried it and it was nothing like the smell. It’s mild. Good, but not at all what I expected based on the smell. It’s somewhere between parmesan and mozzarella. I like it but the difference between opening package and tasting was weird.
It has DOP on it, so I assume it’s legit.
Anywhere else and it’s just sparkling cheese.
Yes. But because the name isn’t protected like champagne, no one will every market it as sparkling cheese.
My experience in the UK was the gruyère was a bit bland as a cheese. But since moving to France that’s changed completely. Gruyère can be of widly different qualities and aged for different times for very different end flavours. The opposite is true of cheddar, which in Britain is a big spectrum of flavours and textures, but often in France is a pretty bland ‘burger cheese slice’ affair.
I once got some from the store because i love the taste and my roomies threw it out after two days because they thought it has gone bad and the smell was covering everything in the fridge. It was in a closed box and everything but they couldnt handle it. The taste wasnt like the smell but still not mild at all.
Gruyère has a pretty light taste, more something you put for the texture. If you want taste go for some goat, bleu, or Munster (beware that one will make your fridge smell)
Or… Époisses de Bourgogne…
(This is the cheese falsely stated to be banned on French public transit.)
It’s both super stinky and has a… striking… flavor.
That is how my gruyere has been in Midwest US
Thanks!
Isn’t it fancy Swiss cheese?
Depends. If you get Gruyere in the US, there's zero relation to Switzerland there. The US declared gruyere a generic name and so its Swiss or French name protections are void there and thus no guarantee about origin is made.
In the EU there's the difference between (Swiss) Gruyere and French Gruyere which are quite different according to Wikipedia.
Thanks for this great answer! I was thinking about swiss-style (like with the holes) and didn’t even consider that some cheese might be imported from actual Switzerland!
Not sure sure about about fancy, but yes, it’s Swiss cheese. It originated in a part of Switzerland, which also has a museum dedicated to the work of H.R. Giger, the guy who designed the Alien in the film of the same name. Some of his art is… weird. There’s an 8ft tall Alien on the third floor.
Wasn’t his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?
French onion soup.
Another vote for “melt it.” Also, try it with coffee.
Melt it
Maybe dip some bread in it
Add a potato and baby you got a stew goin.
It should have tasted sharper than that. You might have ended up with a mild one.
Either that, or your taste in cheese is VERY sharp!
I think my taste is probably pretty jaded. I love funky or spicy or intense anything.
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As a Swiss, I’m just gonna silently judge everyone here. 🧐
figjam@midwest.social 4 months ago
As is tradition.