If your favourite cheese is mature cheddar, are you still a cheese lover?

Would it matter if it wasn't an artisan cheddar? Say if it was from Super Valu....

I can imagine a "cheese lover's" favourite cheese being a factory cheddar raising a few eyebrows, alright.

wenslydale or swaledale cheese nothing comes close.

Sliced/grated cheese tastes of absolutely nothing at all. They've to add so many stabilisers etc. to stop it sticking/clumping/going hard that it ends up bearing virtually no resemblance whatsoever to actual cheese.

Kinda like claiming to be a wine lover and your favourite wine is a bottle of Jacob's Creek Merlot.

I could live on cheese. Might have been a 🐭 in a previous life.

Just bought a raw milk cheddar yesterday. 😋

Don’t care if it makes me seem unsophisticated and uncouth - this is one of the nicest cheeses I’ve ever had.

I am. I now have to go down to Naas to pick it up. It's only ~20 minutes but still. Bad form from Sheridan's.

Genuine question - how much grated cheese do you go through that you wouldn't just grate it as you need it?

The "wax" is most likely starch that you're tasting. Pre grated cheese tends to be coated in starch and other chemicals.

A nice gorgonzola is probably my favourite but I'll devour a cheddar toasty just as easily.

The only bit of "snobbery" I would have is with the pre grated stuff. It ruins any kind of cheese.

I used to just slice a block as needed for sandwiches, etc. I had stopped buying supermarket grated cheese due to the waxy taste of it. Now with the processor it can grate a 400g block in about 30 seconds and I put that in a sealed bag and then have it on demand in the fridge. That grated cheese is far nicer than supermarket bought.

Convenience really. If I had a 400g block and grate 40g of cheese off it every time I want to make a sandwich then that means Ive to wash the box grater 10 times day after day which is a PITA. Lunch tends to be rushed for me so I dont want to be creating washing up every day over making a simple sandwich and box graters are a pain to clean as food and residue lodges on the blades both inside and outside. In the dishwasher they rust in no time as theyre made from cheap metal and the steam effects it badly. For me anyway box graters are probably one of the most awkward things to clean in the entire kitchen. Them and garlic presses are both awkward to get spotlessly clean as they both leave lots of food residue.

So I just went back to slicing cheese instead. But now with the food processer it grates an entire block in no time at all and Ive always a stock of grated cheese in the fridge ready to go. The grater blade goes in the dishwasher for use again maybe 10 or 12 days later. So its far more convenient than washing a box grater 10 times in a row. Its not the reason I bought the processor, its for other stuff. But their ability to grate an entire block of cheese in seconds is an added bonus. And because of that now my box grater has been consigned to the bin.

its nice but has taken a made price hike from the days it was always 2 for a block, the dunnes mature cheese in the white package tastes just as nice and assume also made in the same cork factory.