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No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.
by maremmano 5y ago
No you cannot say that my Comté affiné 36 mois is a slice of gruyere instead.
- jihadjihad 5y agoMy guess is it's a labeling issue -- Comté is sometimes confusingly referred to as Gruyère de Comté, though it is obviously not a Swiss cheese.
- UncleMeat 5y agoTo me it seems much more likely that it is just unable to distinguish these cheeses. Both cheeses look very similar both in the cheese itself and the rind. They are also packaged and served in similar ways.
- nchi3 5y agoTo be fair, Comté and Gruyere are pretty much as similar as 2 different types of cheeses can get.
- namdnay 5y agovisually, maybe. in taste, not at all. Comte and Beaufort maybe, Comte and Gruyere? no way
- littlestymaar 5y ago> Comte and Beaufort maybe This is heresy!
- nchi3 5y agoIt's hard to taste a picture! I'm not saying they're exactly the same, but they're made in extremely similar ways. I'm from a less cheese-y part of Europe, but isn't Comté often called Gruyère de Comté for a reason? Of course they'll taste very different when aged for very different amount of times, but I've found them to be decently similar when aged for similar amounts of time.
- namdnay 5y agoI’ve never seen Gruyère develop those strong flavours (18m+), then again to be fair in France Gruyère is rarely aged
- dopidopHN 5y agoOh. No. Really not. Comté is way more flavorful and tangy, and develop quartz of salt than crisp when you eat it.
- Agingcoder 5y agoThe crystals are not salt but amino acid, mainly tyrosine.
- Biganon 5y agoI've never been so angry because of an HN comment, nom d'une pipe en bois. But cheers from Switzerland anyway, let's enjoy cheese while we still have a sense of taste.
- dopidopHN 5y agoNon mais vous avez mieux que le gruyère pour rentrer en compète avec le comté non?
- nchi3 5y agoThe crystals are just from aging it for longer, aren't they? Of course a 36 month Comté vs. 4 month Gruye won't have that many similarities compared to a 12 month Comté vs. 12 month Gruyere.
- dopidopHN 5y agoCorrect.Yeah they are. You specify the range of age you want when you buy comté. For Gruyère, I never saw that, but it might be because I grew up a few hours from where it’s made. To clarify : real gruyère is a great cheese. But comte is one of my favorite. Man I miss cheese.
- Agingcoder 5y agoNo, really really no. Please try again ( and make sure you get proper cheese, not tasteless plastic which will lead you to believe they're the same)
- lukas099 5y agoPeople are saying no, but nobody is offering a more-similar pair of cheeses.
- SuchAnonMuchWow 5y agobeauford is much more similar to compté
- malka 5y agoGruyère and Emmental.
- 1_player 5y agoNot at all. Emmental has a mild, flat flavour profile where Gruyère has a full bodied rich taste, just like Comté does.