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Cheese???
by diputsmonro 3y ago
Cheese???
- TulliusCicero 3y agoKorea at least adds cheese to lots of stuff and it seems to work.
- wrigby 3y agoI grew up (as a white American kid in Virginia) often adding a slice of American cheese to instant ramen, and I can confirm that it’s delicious.
- krapp 3y agoParmesan cheese works too.
- Auracle 3y agoA slice of american cheese in instant ramen gives it some body and adds a bit of extra fattiness that's often missing. At least in flavorful, spicy ramen it really doesn't add much cheese flavor. Try it out.
- prmoustache 3y agoWhat is "american cheese"? Do you mean plastic?
- justsomehnguy 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese
- inconceivable 3y agoyou're behind schedule on your food hipsterism. american cheese has passed through the unironically bad phase, the ironically bad phase, and ironically good phase, and is now back to unironically good.
- prmoustache 3y agoI am not food hipster, I am french. ;-)
- inconceivable 3y agothat makes you the ultimate food hipster
- xboxnolifes 3y agoIt's so sad to me that American cheese is only associated with the shitty kraft singles. White American cheese is such a good melted or sandwich cheese.
- mickdeek86 3y agoIt's processed (not aged), high fat, low protein cheese. Invented by James L Kraft (yes, that Kraft) and is the basis of Kraft Mac & Cheese, elsewehere called Kraft dinner. It melts perfectly and is shelf-stable. Fun fact: for a time it was called Government cheese. USDA used to buy surplus milk in glut years to stabilize prices, mass produce this cheese product, and give it out as part of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/'food stamps'). The phrase 'government cheese' became a pseudonym for welfare and uttered by ('compassionate') conservative types to belittle the food insecure, so they rebranded it and voila! Now it's 'merican!
- rootusrootus 3y agoI bet it works wonderfully. American cheese is essentially salty cheddar that melts real nice. That's why it's the best cheese for a hamburger.
- OJFord 3y agoIt is nothing like cheddar, certainly not a 'salty cheddar', it's most obvious deviation perhaps is the mildness/lack of saltiness. Maybe what's called 'cheddar' in the US is different too though, I don't know? It's not PDO (and the US doesn't respect them anyway I think?) but I'm comparing to British if not Cheddarian cheddar.
- mickdeek86 3y agoIn this usage, salt is anything but lacking. Americans do know what cheddar actually is and indeed make a shitload of it in a wide range of qualities. Tillamook out of Oregon and Cabot out of Vermont are commonly available and pretty good.
- OJFord 3y agoI looked up Tillamook, first reaction was that it doesn't even look like cheddar - but then I noticed the 'Maker's Reserve White Cheddar'. Why is artificially coloured the default?! 'white cheddar' makes it sound weird/fake/some strange variant, when all it is is that they haven't added colouring to ingredients list. The non-'white' ones look like red leicester, which is a bit like a mild not very salty cheddar, and that colour.
- mickdeek86 3y agoCheddar cheese is indeed white, unless annatto (a tree nut) and sometimes paprika are added for flavor. Tillamook makes both.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoYeah cheesey ramen is the best
- djtango 3y agoUsually people use one of processed cheese, a very very mild mozzarella or a cream cheese So it's mostly just a source of fattiness and creaminess to add that velvety texture to the sauce
- uf00lme 3y agoI've seen people just add butter to ramen as well for the same effect.