THIS IS AN ANTI-CAKING AGENT HATE ACCOUNT. MY CHEESE WON’T MELT PROPERLY >:{
ERADICATE CELLULOSE AND STARCH IN MY BAGS OF SHREDDED CHEESE RRRAAAHHHHHHHHH
Just buy a brick of cheese and shred your own! It’s not that hard and you get more cheese for the same money.
But then you have another dish to wash. I’ll just stick to chomping directly on the brick like nature intended.
Or hell, drink it straight from the cow and swish it around like mouthwash until it forms into cheese
Where there’s a will, there’s a whey.
The flat graters are easier to wash than the box type.
Okay that’s fine then, you can just buy a block of cheese and grate it yourself. There are these things called cheese gradters which exist for that very purpose.
You can even, get this, use them to slice the cheese thinly using the slicing part of them.
I know wild right.
They’re an absolute nightmare to wash, though.
… Are they? I’ve never had issues cleaning them at all.
“Now I have little pieces of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips!”
It’s not as easy as regular dishes, but not that terribly difficult either
Just throw it into dishwasher. I won’t dull the blades too much
Ah yes, that dishwasher I have in my miniscule apartment.
I’ve never had issues cleaning them. They aren’t super easy to clean but I came up with a method that works well for me.
Put it in a pot, add dishsoap, then pour boiling water in it and let it soak for a bit. Seems a bit weird and extreme but it gets majority of the cheese off of it. There’s also a technique involving lemon and salt to clean them. Oh and if one has a dishwasher that works very well too, but I know many people don’t have them (I practically don’t, since the one here doesn’t work).
deleted by creator
I don’t like the box graters like this one. OXO and Ikea both make nice ones that fit over a container to catch the grate. The OXO has eaten bits of my fingers, though.
There’s a trick to using box graters that most people don’t know (I certainly didn’t until recently)
- Lay a towel or some parchment paper in a sheet pan (optional)
- Lay the grater on the pan
- With your non dominant hand, hold the handle of the grater and the rim of the sheet pan
- With your dominant hand, grate, pushing away from you + into the countertop
The mechanics of pushing down/away are much better than holding the thing upright, dangling it over a bowl or whatever. Easy to just push with your palm too (and keep your fingers out of the way).
Wait a second, these are made for grating cheese? And that’s their main purpose?
You put your dick into it didn’t you?
It’d be easier to list the things I haven’t put my dick into uwu
If you’re not getting anti caking agents in shredded cheese, then what do you expect the pre-shredded cheese to do?
Might as well get a block and shred it yourself.Ordered cheese, got cake.
I, too, hate anti-caking agents in my cheese, also cheese without anti-caking agents, and even cheese with caking agents. I am vegan btw, I don’t eat cheese.
More cheese for me then. :3
we can only be friends if you keep eating the exact same amount of cheese or less, I’ll not have my stance be nulled by some renegade.
Fair point. I’m not eating more cheese to spite you, I’ll just eat any extra unwanted cheese you (being any hypothetical vegans I might eat with) got served that would have to go to the trash otherwise.
But I respect your cause, and while I’m not fully vegan I do try to eat animal products mindfully and reduce my consumption of them.
Sike, we can never be friends, bloodmouth!
Why don’t vegans just milk themselves and make vegan cheese?
Who’s saying I don’t.
I mean, you. Like two comments ago.
What about vio life cheese? That stuff is pretty dang good. Daiya can fuck right off
Interesting username for a cheese-hater.
that’s nacho… your business
Y’ain’t rinsing your cheese?
Agent!? Now they’re sending spies!
This agent shags.
If you didn’t have the anti-caking agent, the cheese would just cake up into one solid mass, making the whole “pre-shredded” part literally meaningless…
If you want shredded cheese without anti-caking agents, just shred your own - it’s cheaper, and only requires a grater and a bit of extra time over pre-shredded.
It literally doesn’t. Like yeah, it sticks together into clumps, but you can easily break them back up into shreds with your hands. Source: I’ve worked a bunch of pizza jobs, both on the high and low end. Guess what, it literally is not cheaper to pay the labour for someone on staff to shred it, at least here in Australia where we pay real bloody wages.
Also, to the OP, “pizza mix” cheese usually is your best bet. They’ll sometimes label it as “meltable mix”.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
There Is No Ethical Consumption of Cheese Under Capitalism!
We called it wooden cheese in our household, and yes, the alternative is to grate fresh.
But if you’re pro-caking, why’d you X it out on the signs bud
Why did I cross out pictures of… of anti-caking agents?
Sorry, friend. Didn’t get that from the pics
It looks like you crossed out pictures of caked cheese
So clumpy. Mmmmmm
that’s interesting, I didn’t know there was addtl starch in shredded cheese. that might explain why that recipe we tried failed. I suspected that we added too much starch