Natural Cheese

[R. Richard]

I was seized by the desire for a toasted cheese sandwich. I had a little cheddar on hand, however, I wanted to base the sandwich on monterrey jack cheese and I had no monterrey jack cheese. So I went to the local cheese chop and they had a sale on "natural monterrey jack cheese." So I bought some of the natural monterrey jack cheese. On the way home I thought, "What is another type of monterrey jack cheese?" Unnatural monterrey jack cheese? Then I thought, "No, it is close to Halloween, thus it must be supernatural monterrey jack cheese!"

What the hell is natural monterrey jack cheese, as opposed to just plain monterrey jack cheese? TIA!

[If I can find some supernatural monterrey jack cheese, perhaps I can levitate!]

 

[McKenna]

Maybe "natural" means unpasteurized?

 

[McKenna]

Found this:

"Cheese can be natural or blended. Natural cheese such as Cheddar is produced directly from milk. Pasteurized blended cheese, process cheese, cheese foods, cheese spreads, and cold-pack cheeses are made by blending one or more different kinds of natural cheese into a homogenous mass. Optional ingredients may be added."

National Dairy Council

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

Yep.

Natural cheese is made the old-fashioned way, with milk and rennet. Each individual flavor depends on the process itself and what's added to it during the process.

Everything else is pasteurized, homogenized, chemically screwed with, etc. It usually doesn't taste as good, either.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Natural Monterey Jack cheese is also known as "Monterey John".

Of course, it doesn't sell very well under that name, as you can imagine

 

[Liar]

I want supernatural cheese.

 

[R. Richard]

I want supernatural cheese.

It's the levitation thing, right?

 

[R. Richard]

Yep.

Natural cheese is made the old-fashioned way, with milk and rennet. Each individual flavor depends on the process itself and what's added to it during the process.

Everything else is pasteurized, homogenized, chemically screwed with, etc. It usually doesn't taste as good, either.

Actually, the lady at the cheese place tells me that some cheese is made without rennet, using some sort of vegetable additive. However, that doesn't bother me so much as they sell swiss cheese with no holes in it. That has to be against some sort of law, even if it just the law of nature.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

Actually, the lady at the cheese place tells me that some cheese is made without rennet, using some sort of vegetable additive. However, that doesn't bother me so much as they sell swiss cheese with no holes in it. That has to be against some sort of law, even if it just the law of nature.

It's the same thing, just vegetarian safe. It's what we use to make our cheese here at home. Still sold as rennet in supply shops.

 

[NoJo]

Damn, I thought this was going to be a smegma thread

 

[McKenna]

Damn, I thought this was going to be a smegma thread

Wait a minute... do circumcised men get smegma?

 

[R. Richard]

I notice that everyone is tiptoeing around the issue of selling swiss cheese with no holes in it. That has to be against some sort of law, even if it just the law of nature. I myself don't care, but they feed the stuff to small children.

 

[NoJo]

Wait a minute... do circumcised men get smegma?

Yes they do, every Sunday when they're getting the bagels and smoked salmon, but they have to ask for it , it's usually kept behind the counter.

 

[amicus]

An interesting search is 'rennet' as it refers to the process by which milk is turned into cheese....since I had to do that to make my novel accurate about the god-damned mountain goats that I decided became domesticated....seems to have or must have been, an accidental discovery by early humans...

amicus...

 

[R. Richard]

An interesting search is 'rennet' as it refers to the process by which milk is turned into cheese....since I had to do that to make my novel accurate about the god-damned mountain goats that I decided became domesticated....seems to have or must have been, an accidental discovery by early humans...

amicus...

There is a theory that some early traveller used a cow stomach to carry milk on a journey. The rennet in the cow stomach turned the milk into cheese.