Love to see it. I’m not vegan but I’d developed an allergy to dairy – this stuff is great for me, I can have pizza again.
Got to get the right one, a lot of them smell like feet…..taste like it too but every now and then you get a good one which is just right
I had to go dairy free for a while (kid had CMPA) and while subs for everything else dairy were great (seriously I won’t go back to normal ice cream after trying oatly salted caramel 🤤), the dairy free cheese all sucked. like badly. I was off dairy for 3 years. I have never been so happy to go back to dairy cheese!
I originally hated this stuff.
Im a vegetarian so im happy to eat cheese but since many of the vegan options throw this cheese in; im forced to eat it.
Ive slowly become accustomed to it and its almost a different *thing* to cheese entirely.
To the point that ive opted for either real or vegan depending on my mood
Vegan cheese still has a bit of a way to go, but it definitely is improving. The stuff in the supermarkets is 90% a lil bit poo if I’m being honest, but the smaller independent companies like La Fauxmagerie and I Am Nut Okay are to die for.
One interesting thing that I hadn’t considered before is that most dairy cheeses are matured for years. Vegan cheese has only properly been around for a few years too, and so there’s probably some epic vegan cheese that is currently sitting somewhere cold and dark maturing. And if not, the process just needs perfecting.
Some of them are utter shite.
The best I’ve found was from La Faux Mangerie near Liverpool Street Station in London, but it costs a fortune.
I’ll be moving away from London soon so will have to do some more research.
I find most of them are fine melted, but the texture isn’t what I want from a cheese that I just have on its own or with biscuits/crackers.
I’d recommend the Violife cheese block for anyone who likes cheese toasted sandwiches 🙂 Melts very well and tastes amazing – it’s my new favourite
I believe they use the same cheese in the vegan ham and cheese costa toasties
A problem I have with vegan cheese, is that generally they are extremely unhealthy, with a lot of bad oils, modifiers, a lot of starch, artificial additives for colour and flavour, … Basically, you are eating plastic that looks and tastes like cheese.
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I do sometimes wonder if people just convince themselves that certain vegan alternatives taste good.
I’ve been lactose intolerant for the past 20 years and I’m also vegetarian so I’m not coming in as some self-righteous meat lover and I know taste is personal, but I’ve tried so many vegan cheeses and they’re all dreadful and smell so bad.
Every Christmas My family invite a group of our friends to stay with us. We’re neither vegan nor strictly vegetarian but a few of our friends are. Our Christmas eve tradition is a charcuterie board of frankly obscene proportions and every year, thanks to the improvements in vegan cheese and meat substitutes the half of that board devoted to those things gets better and better.
Vegan replacements might be the only substances in the world to make strong alpha males into blubbering messes.
So far the best vegan cheeses are anything recreating cream cheeses. The cheddars etc still have some way to go but the cathedral city vegan cheese is the closest we’ve got so far!
Great but when we will see ever see the price of it come down to below that of regular dairy, where it should be if it wasn’t heavily subsidised by the government to protect farmers
Isn’t vegan cheese the oiliest substance on the planet?
The technology that is being developed now means that at some point we will have Cow free dairy. So it will be bovine milk but will not include a cow and so a lot of the problems of the dairy industry might be solvable. …… maybe.
Silly question maybe, but with lab grown meat on the way, is there such a thing as lab grown milk?
Never giving up proper milk, but could be up to switch to lab grown stuff if it tastes the same.
I’m vegan but honestly, cheese is the shakiest ground when it comes to substitutes. Ten years ago however it was a lot worse.
I’ve never once in my life gagged as much as when I tried vegan stilton cheese about 10 years ago. Fuck me it still makes me gag.
The new Cathedral City is legit amazing. Similar to what I remember, not quite as strong but the taste profile is definitely that of mature cheddar and not that of other vegan cheeses.
I don’t know how they did it. It even crumbles like mature cheddar.
The vegan cheese I’ve had tasted odd by itself, but when you put it with other stuff like in a burger, it tastes the same to me.
Cathedral now do a vegan cheese block. It’s crumbly and hard to grate. But taste really good!
Happy Mouse Vegan cheese is lovely for anyone wanting something very different! Made with tofu it’s really quite good
I’ve never tasted a good vegan attempt at cheese. They all seem to be very waxy and taste quite bad.
I’ve been vegan like 7 years now and what I’ve noticed is that everyone seems to hate it at first, but many people slowly have a switch happen in their brains for what they have a preference for. This happened to me and I don’t like the smell of dairy cheddar cheese now. Part of it might be chemical, but I think it’s mostly what is normal to you at the time. The idea of ‘cheese’ being made from nuts and having a literal nutty taste is going to be strange to anyone for a while
As someone who is ill after eating beans & peas, this is a no-no. Hope it doesn’t replace real cheese!
All cheese substitutes are so artificial and highly processed.
When you consider that real cheese is just milk curd, it seems to go against the natural simplicity of the general vegan ethos IMO.
Generally, the less processing and fewer ingredients, the better.
I’m a vegetarian leaning vegan but the problem I find with the cheese is it’s a completely different set of macros to normal cheese.
Vegan sausages have similar protein and fat content as meat ones so meals end up with the same macros.
Vegan cheese is just carbs. So a cheese salad goes from carbs, fat and protein to just carbs on carbs.
Not the biggest issue in the world clearly but I want me some fat!
Can anyone recommend decent ones?
Last time I tried vegan cheese it was awful. but if they are doing better ones now I’m willing to give it another shot.
It’s not fucking cheese. God it’s some kind of cured bean curd it ain’t cheese.
Well done for it finding a market but goodness me I hate vegan products trying to dress up as meat or cheese. Just make tasty veg based stuff and call it what it is
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Love to see it. I’m not vegan but I’d developed an allergy to dairy – this stuff is great for me, I can have pizza again.
Got to get the right one, a lot of them smell like feet…..taste like it too but every now and then you get a good one which is just right
I had to go dairy free for a while (kid had CMPA) and while subs for everything else dairy were great (seriously I won’t go back to normal ice cream after trying oatly salted caramel 🤤), the dairy free cheese all sucked. like badly. I was off dairy for 3 years. I have never been so happy to go back to dairy cheese!
I originally hated this stuff.
Im a vegetarian so im happy to eat cheese but since many of the vegan options throw this cheese in; im forced to eat it.
Ive slowly become accustomed to it and its almost a different *thing* to cheese entirely.
To the point that ive opted for either real or vegan depending on my mood
Vegan cheese still has a bit of a way to go, but it definitely is improving. The stuff in the supermarkets is 90% a lil bit poo if I’m being honest, but the smaller independent companies like La Fauxmagerie and I Am Nut Okay are to die for.
One interesting thing that I hadn’t considered before is that most dairy cheeses are matured for years. Vegan cheese has only properly been around for a few years too, and so there’s probably some epic vegan cheese that is currently sitting somewhere cold and dark maturing. And if not, the process just needs perfecting.
Some of them are utter shite.
The best I’ve found was from La Faux Mangerie near Liverpool Street Station in London, but it costs a fortune.
I’ll be moving away from London soon so will have to do some more research.
I find most of them are fine melted, but the texture isn’t what I want from a cheese that I just have on its own or with biscuits/crackers.
I’d recommend the Violife cheese block for anyone who likes cheese toasted sandwiches 🙂 Melts very well and tastes amazing – it’s my new favourite
I believe they use the same cheese in the vegan ham and cheese costa toasties
A problem I have with vegan cheese, is that generally they are extremely unhealthy, with a lot of bad oils, modifiers, a lot of starch, artificial additives for colour and flavour, … Basically, you are eating plastic that looks and tastes like cheese.
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I do sometimes wonder if people just convince themselves that certain vegan alternatives taste good.
I’ve been lactose intolerant for the past 20 years and I’m also vegetarian so I’m not coming in as some self-righteous meat lover and I know taste is personal, but I’ve tried so many vegan cheeses and they’re all dreadful and smell so bad.
Every Christmas My family invite a group of our friends to stay with us. We’re neither vegan nor strictly vegetarian but a few of our friends are. Our Christmas eve tradition is a charcuterie board of frankly obscene proportions and every year, thanks to the improvements in vegan cheese and meat substitutes the half of that board devoted to those things gets better and better.
Vegan replacements might be the only substances in the world to make strong alpha males into blubbering messes.
So far the best vegan cheeses are anything recreating cream cheeses. The cheddars etc still have some way to go but the cathedral city vegan cheese is the closest we’ve got so far!
Great but when we will see ever see the price of it come down to below that of regular dairy, where it should be if it wasn’t heavily subsidised by the government to protect farmers
Isn’t vegan cheese the oiliest substance on the planet?
The technology that is being developed now means that at some point we will have Cow free dairy. So it will be bovine milk but will not include a cow and so a lot of the problems of the dairy industry might be solvable. …… maybe.
Silly question maybe, but with lab grown meat on the way, is there such a thing as lab grown milk?
Never giving up proper milk, but could be up to switch to lab grown stuff if it tastes the same.
I’m vegan but honestly, cheese is the shakiest ground when it comes to substitutes. Ten years ago however it was a lot worse.
I’ve never once in my life gagged as much as when I tried vegan stilton cheese about 10 years ago. Fuck me it still makes me gag.
The new Cathedral City is legit amazing. Similar to what I remember, not quite as strong but the taste profile is definitely that of mature cheddar and not that of other vegan cheeses.
I don’t know how they did it. It even crumbles like mature cheddar.
The vegan cheese I’ve had tasted odd by itself, but when you put it with other stuff like in a burger, it tastes the same to me.
Cathedral now do a vegan cheese block. It’s crumbly and hard to grate. But taste really good!
Happy Mouse Vegan cheese is lovely for anyone wanting something very different! Made with tofu it’s really quite good
I’ve never tasted a good vegan attempt at cheese. They all seem to be very waxy and taste quite bad.
I’ve been vegan like 7 years now and what I’ve noticed is that everyone seems to hate it at first, but many people slowly have a switch happen in their brains for what they have a preference for. This happened to me and I don’t like the smell of dairy cheddar cheese now. Part of it might be chemical, but I think it’s mostly what is normal to you at the time. The idea of ‘cheese’ being made from nuts and having a literal nutty taste is going to be strange to anyone for a while
As someone who is ill after eating beans & peas, this is a no-no. Hope it doesn’t replace real cheese!
All cheese substitutes are so artificial and highly processed.
When you consider that real cheese is just milk curd, it seems to go against the natural simplicity of the general vegan ethos IMO.
Generally, the less processing and fewer ingredients, the better.
I’m a vegetarian leaning vegan but the problem I find with the cheese is it’s a completely different set of macros to normal cheese.
Vegan sausages have similar protein and fat content as meat ones so meals end up with the same macros.
Vegan cheese is just carbs. So a cheese salad goes from carbs, fat and protein to just carbs on carbs.
Not the biggest issue in the world clearly but I want me some fat!
Can anyone recommend decent ones?
Last time I tried vegan cheese it was awful. but if they are doing better ones now I’m willing to give it another shot.
It’s not fucking cheese. God it’s some kind of cured bean curd it ain’t cheese.
Well done for it finding a market but goodness me I hate vegan products trying to dress up as meat or cheese. Just make tasty veg based stuff and call it what it is