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The Swedes are using cheese slicers too? I always thought the Dutch were the only people in the world to use cheese slicers.
by Dutchie 10y ago
The Swedes are using cheese slicers too? I always thought the Dutch were the only people in the world to use cheese slicers.
- tricolon 10y agoFinn here. How else are you supposed to slice cheese?
- nxcho 10y agoKnife i guess or buy factory sliced. Most cheeses in america is a bit to soft to slice with a cheese slicer anyway.
- Dutchie 10y agoAmerican cheese? Does that relate to real cheese as Pizza Hawaii compares to an actual Italian pizza?
- striking 10y agoIt's flimsy processed orange milk-based goop in thin sheets. Great on burgers and literally nothing else.
- kpil 10y agoActually, it ruins the burger...
- moron4hire 10y agoActually, no u
- nxcho 10y agoIn my experience, the more popular american cheeses are quite mild and have a low melting temperature to get a good melt and stretch on warm food. I don't find them particularly interesting to just slice and put on a piece of bread. It is often easy enough to find good but expensive imported cheeses.
- colechristensen 10y agoThere's cheese which is made in America which for most intents and purposes is cheese like everywhere else, and then there's "American cheese" which comes in slices or blocks and is "cheese product" and only vaguely resembles the real thing despite being delicious in certain guilty-pleasure situations.
- fennecfoxen 10y agoDon't look for American cheese, look for Wisconsin or Vermont cheese. Maybe California in a pinch. Those will be good.
- tamana 10y agoThat makes no sense. The geographic source of the cheese is trivila compared to the way it is made. You can get cheap American process ccheese food or you can get expensive classic varieties of cheese from anywhere.
- BurningFrog 10y agoOr Swedish cheese is made hard enough to be used with an osthyvel.
- kuschku 10y agoWell, for that there’s a special danish type of cheese slicer that works better with soft cheese.
- Moru 10y agoWe use this one for soft cheese: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=danish+cheese+slicer+wire&t=ffab&iax=1&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.holdnstorage.com%2FPreview%2F330%2F320%2F2070100.bmp https://duckduckgo.com/?q=danish+cheese+slicer+wire&t=ffab&i...
- klipt 10y agoCheese wire maybe?
- bearbin 10y agoPotato peeler? https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/5/5c/Peeler.jpg/300px-Peeler.jpg https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/5/5c/Peeler.j...
- m_mueller 10y agoIn Switzerland we do cheese shavings like described in the following article (although only for a specific type of cheese, the 'tete de moine' (monk's head). http://itotd.com/articles/217/the-girolle/ http://itotd.com/articles/217/the-girolle/ For any other hard cheese it's a bit blasphemic.
- nissehulth 10y agoYes, but it was invented by a Norwegian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj%C3%B8rklund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj%C3%B8rklund
- Dutchie 10y agoCool, didn't know that and I use his invention literally every day!
- speeder 10y agoAnd here I was thinking this was a Brazillian invention (they are wildly popular in Brazil, everywhere you go in Brazil, even the middle of nowhere, like Amazon Rainforest, you will find someone that owns one).
- nxcho 10y agoThat is interesting. I thought that it was mostly and European thing. What kinds of cheese is common in Brazil?
- jessaustin 10y agoOh no, they don't use it on cheese...
- speeder 10y agothe most popular cheese, far ahead of anything else, is mozarella... it is not high quality as actual italian ones though (it is way less "fibrous"). then we have Prato (it means "Plate" as in dinner plate... or dinner dish...), that has the exact same recipe as Danbo, but is made with brazillian milk, and seemly tastes very differently (I dunno, since I never ate Danbo). then we have a purely local invention called Minas, named after the state of Minas Gerais, despite being a São Paulo invention... (go figure...), that one is hard to describe, since it refers to 4 different cheeses (or the same cheese with 4 slightly variations in the process to make them, but with end results drastically different). Then other italian cheeses are popular here, maybe because the large italian community here, and how much Brazillians also love pizza, so here almost every supermarket offers Provolone, Parmesan and Gorgonzola. In urban areas you can find frequently "Steppe" cheese, it is a russian cheese it seems, it is expensive (double the price of "Prato") but not much as local clones of french/swiss cheese (Steppe is half of the price of local clones of Emmental, Gruyere, etc...) cheddar cheese is sold a bit, but most people consider it low quality crap, the biggest seller of cheddar cheese don't even bother in selling actual cheddar, and instead sell a clone that tastes mostly the same, for very little... people still prefer to buy more expensive mozarella instead.
- durandal1 10y agoAnd for the record: The cheese slicers sold at IKEA are horrible, slicing way too thick slices.
- jon-wood 10y agoI've always had one in England but most people who encounter it have no idea what it's for, so they're not exactly common place.
- mercurial 10y agoDanes do too.
- alistairSH 10y agoHuh. I've had a cheese slicer at home forever (Scottish-American). It mostly gets used at dinner parties, when we buy nicer cheeses; inexpensive cheese is almost all pre-sliced in the US. Same holds true for my parents.
- Symbiote 10y agoMost cheese sold in Britain is not sliced, but most people use an ordinary knife for slicing it. I'd guess grated cheese outsells sliced cheese.
- groby_b 10y agoDude, the Germans love cheese slicers. (Granted, the cheese we slice is mostly Dutch. But still :)