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anyone smoke their cheese?

kiwilrdg

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I have started an interesting way to treat my cheeses. Smoking cheese gives it a very good flavor. It is like making bacon from milk.
I started with homemade cheese from some rather generic tasting milk and some cheap store bought cheese. The smoked cheese gives a new dimension to a cheese plate. It is way beyond any the smoked cheeses I have bought anywhere.

It is a little tricky keeping the temp low enough to not melt the cheese but even if the cheese melts a bit it is still good.
 

Smithy

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Love smoked cheese and especially cheddar although never done it myself. Although good smoked cheese is readily available in this part of the world (Australasia).

Good job having a crack at it yourself though. Homemade is always best!
 
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kiwilrdg

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I t only causes birth defects if you smoke the fetus as well. I think this line of comments is taking an unsavory turn.
 

Shangas

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Love smoked cheese and especially cheddar although never done it myself. Although good smoked cheese is readily available in this part of the world (Australasia).

Good job having a crack at it yourself though. Homemade is always best!

Smoked Cheddar is divine! I love the taste. My favourite cheese. Although likewise, I've never tried smoking my own.
 
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I likely would have swung at that fat pitch myself, had Tom not gotten here first.

Me, I've been known to tell many a joke first heard back when the Dead Sea was still sick.

The groans reverberate still.
 
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But, back on topic ...

Among the things in which I no longer partake to the degree I once did is cheese (high-fat foods in general, alas). Hailing from Wisconsin, and descended from dairymen, this unfortunate avoidance of such wonderful things borders on blasphemy. But my physicians have convinced me that being a living blasphemer beats the alternative.
 

Stanley Doble

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A little cheese won't hurt you if you use it as a garnish or savory to a meal, not the meal itself. Smoked cheese is good because a little goes a long way. For example on a salad or bean dish.

My brother used to smoke fish. The oilier fish like salmon are especially good. Smoking things is not very difficult or expensive, give it a try.
 
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I work at a cheese plant and one of the jobs there is a 'cutter.' You can believe that everytime we get new recruits, they have a field day that it's somebody's job to cut the cheese lol

I tried smoking cheese, but just kept burning my lips.

I could have made a joke about cutting it, but I refrained, because ladies do not cut cheesy comestibles.
 

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