| Favourite cheese. 17:10 - Mar 24 with 1399 views | gramps |
Not been mentioned recently! I really like a strong cheddar that keeps its flavour when toasted. Any suggestions welcome. I asked my wife for her favourite and she said grated!! |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 17:29 - Mar 24 with 1351 views | stringy |
spent a week back on Naxos last month, and you get some fabulous cheeses there (alas not sure how easy to track down in the UK), not least an aged graviera, and a hard crumbly arseniko paired with raki and chili jam mmmm.... |  | | |
| Favourite cheese. on 18:04 - Mar 24 with 1298 views | clive_baker |
If you want a top premium cheese you can't beat a good Babybel. |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 18:09 - Mar 24 with 1293 views | BlueBoots |
| Favourite cheese. on 18:04 - Mar 24 by clive_baker |
If you want a top premium cheese you can't beat a good Babybel. |
I call your Babybel, and raise you a Dairylea triangle. |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 18:36 - Mar 24 with 1258 views | Tractorgirlforever |
Has to be monteray jack |  | | |
| Favourite cheese. on 18:46 - Mar 24 with 1251 views | DJR |
| Favourite cheese. on 17:53 - Mar 24 by BLUEBEAT |
Last Thursday, I visited Stamford in Lincs to attend the opening day of the relocation of legendary record shop Rock On.
On the A1 I noticed a sign for the village of Stilton on the Cambs/Lincs border, so thought I’d stop and buy a lump of my favourite cheese direct from source.
I bought some and was advised by the happy cheesemonger that Stilton Cheese is not allowed to be made in Stilton BY LAW! The cheese was historically made by communities from the nearby counties of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire and taken to Stilton to sell as it was a long-standing North/South transport hub and therefore a busy commerce hotspot.
However… due to Brexit and the resulting abolition of certain trading laws, Stilton will soon be able to produce their own blue veiny magnificence and use their own village name.
Who said nothing good came out of Brexit?  [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 18:21]
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This article suggests that it would have been possible to change things before Brexit, and that producers in the area where it was traditionally produced would not have been happy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140716070411/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stilton-cheese-cannot-made-stilton-2482294
These things were not for the EU to determine but were instead presumably for the nation concerned in association with it producers to determine because the EU would not really have a clue.
But no doubt if things do change, it will be announced as a Brexit bonus [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 18:48]
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| Favourite cheese. on 19:22 - Mar 24 with 1214 views | BLUEBEAT |
| Favourite cheese. on 18:46 - Mar 24 by DJR |
This article suggests that it would have been possible to change things before Brexit, and that producers in the area where it was traditionally produced would not have been happy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140716070411/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stilton-cheese-cannot-made-stilton-2482294
These things were not for the EU to determine but were instead presumably for the nation concerned in association with it producers to determine because the EU would not really have a clue.
But no doubt if things do change, it will be announced as a Brexit bonus [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 18:48]
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Maybe so but that link actually states…
“At present, EU law only allows Stilton to be produced in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, where it thought the cheese originated.”
That present no longer exists, though 🧀
Anyway, I’ve consumed what I bought and it was lovely, wherever it was from 🙂 |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 20:33 - Mar 24 with 1149 views | Guthrum |
A really good, ripe Camembert. Such that the aroma beckons to you across the room.
Or even across the street. |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 20:45 - Mar 24 with 1139 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Favourite cheese. on 17:29 - Mar 24 by stringy |
spent a week back on Naxos last month, and you get some fabulous cheeses there (alas not sure how easy to track down in the UK), not least an aged graviera, and a hard crumbly arseniko paired with raki and chili jam mmmm.... |
You have me interested....any holiday tips re Naxos? Time of year, locations....
Edit. Ps...it's manchego. [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 20:49]
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| Favourite cheese. on 21:45 - Mar 24 with 1115 views | DJR |
Gruyere is my favourite. | | | |
| Favourite cheese. on 22:03 - Mar 24 with 1103 views | ronnyd |
| Favourite cheese. on 19:52 - Mar 24 by solemio |
I had some of that blue-veiny Stilton cheese at lunch-time today.
However, that is not the original and best Stilton, which is all yellow and is probably my favourite cheese of all. |
Don't buy Baronet soft cheese. Being linked to a death from listeria. |  | | |
| Favourite cheese. on 23:08 - Mar 24 with 1071 views | Churchman |
| Favourite cheese. on 20:33 - Mar 24 by Guthrum |
A really good, ripe Camembert. Such that the aroma beckons to you across the room.
Or even across the street. |
I had a Lancashire Cheshire cheese with a burp of Heinz sandwich spread on a nice white soft roll at lunch time and it was lovely. Not too strong or as crumbly as your usual Cheshire, it was full flavoursome lovely.
Back to the point in hand I love trying different ones. A good blue cheese or stilton is hard to beat. Crumbled onto a well toasted crumpet you have a poem of delight for breakfast. Cracking on a burger too.
But really, your desert island cheese of choice has to be a good, strong cheddar. Whether a hunk gnawed on its own, with stuff, basic cheese sandwich, mixed in with mash, pizza topping, anything topping, clod with other stuff, it never disappoints.
Ahh, I love cheese.
Edit: honourable mention to proper Red Leicester. Of the foreign stuff, a good Camembert is lovely and I like Brie too. [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 23:16]
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| Favourite cheese. on 23:53 - Mar 24 with 1026 views | quirkie |
If you like a really strong cheddar then I can recommend Aldi's Davidstow Vintage Cornish Cheddar. It is very strong with a lovely crumbly texture, flavour strength 7. Probably the strongest cheddar I've tasted, even stronger than the Snowdonia Black Bomber cheddar. |  |
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| Favourite cheese. on 01:14 - Mar 25 with 1012 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Favourite cheese. on 17:53 - Mar 24 by BLUEBEAT |
Last Thursday, I visited Stamford in Lincs to attend the opening day of the relocation of legendary record shop Rock On.
On the A1 I noticed a sign for the village of Stilton on the Cambs/Lincs border, so thought I’d stop and buy a lump of my favourite cheese direct from source.
I bought some and was advised by the happy cheesemonger that Stilton Cheese is not allowed to be made in Stilton BY LAW! The cheese was historically made by communities from the nearby counties of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire and taken to Stilton to sell as it was a long-standing North/South transport hub and therefore a busy commerce hotspot.
However… due to Brexit and the resulting abolition of certain trading laws, Stilton will soon be able to produce their own blue veiny magnificence and use their own village name.
Who said nothing good came out of Brexit? [Post edited 24 Mar 2023 18:21]
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The blue cheese producers of Stilton have used the earlier name for the village, Stichelton, to sell their cheese for quite a few years now.
It was a monumental f up that the Leicestershire cheesemakers were able to have the boundary drawn round their country, and exclude Stilton, in the first place. I don't know who would have been responsible for the application for DOP status, or why the Cambridgeshire Blue Cheese makers of Stilton Village didn't object at the time.
But whichever side of the border it is from, when nicely ripe it is a gloriously addictive cheese.
To answer the OP, my all time favourite is probably Tunworth- a washed rind Camembert-style English cheese from Hampshire.
It's beautiful.
https://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/products/tunworth | | | |
| Favourite cheese. on 09:21 - Mar 25 with 913 views | gramps |
| Favourite cheese. on 23:53 - Mar 24 by quirkie |
If you like a really strong cheddar then I can recommend Aldi's Davidstow Vintage Cornish Cheddar. It is very strong with a lovely crumbly texture, flavour strength 7. Probably the strongest cheddar I've tasted, even stronger than the Snowdonia Black Bomber cheddar. |
Thanks very much. I'll certainly give it a try. | |
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