A thread to talk about cheese

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au contraire - they are the best cheeses!

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it’s a raclette. it has a heater in the top piece and you put a half or quarter round of Gruyere cheese in the bottom bit and bring the heat source close to the surface. the cheese melts, you scrape it off onto a plate with some charcuterie and boiled waxy spuds and just get stuck in. bloody lush!

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Brilliant :clap:t2::clap:t2:

Should have done the front too

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UCI rules don’t allow it but I’m sure if you used French cheese they’d find a loophole. :rofl:

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Aye, what he said :+1:

My raclette cheese is in the post right now. First time I’ve ordered mail order cheese but Costco is out of stock and my options are limited in the sticks. I love melted cheese :crazy_face:

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Same with us too! 10 years in this house and the second oven has been used once by the MIL when cooking a big Sunday roast. I don’t know if it even still works.

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online sales have been a lifeline during lockdown for the small specialist producers in the UK as their traditional markets of restaurants disappeared. there was a danger some of them would fold as sales crashed so much

as an example, Kirkham’s Lancashire cheese is made on a working farm - cheese sales crashed something like 90% so there was a big danger they would go out of business. the cows still needed mailking but if they couldn’t make cheese, there was also no other market for the milk - cheese has a premium for milk; straight sales doesn’t and there are also quotas to manage. if you’ve never tried their cheese - you should do so - it’s like heaven compared to the supermarket stuff.

I’ve been buying cheese from Neil’s Yard to help keep these small producers going - as they say “every little helps”

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You barely saw anyone at our local farmers shop, it’s very primo and priced to match but the quality is amazing. Nowadays it’s queues all across the car park. I think people around here have really grasped the ‘buy local’ mantra.

We go to local coffee roasters and have been since we moved here, it’s a great little place that has the roasters smack bang in the middle of the premises. They only open Thurs-Sun for coffees and roast the rest of the time.

Off topic but I just bought a small bearing press and ordered a UK made one. Hasn’t arrived yet.

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Haha my mother in law is the only one who’s used our second oven too.

The main oven is a fan so I can’t see the point of the second one

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Second oven is awesome to keep plates warm, side dishes warm and Yorkshire puddings etc.

I had one at the last house but not here and I miss it :sob::sob::sob:

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I stick our plates in the microwave for a couple of minutes with a cup of water :ok_hand:t2:

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Making a dent on it now.
19 days to go and still got 2kg left to eat

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just ordered this from Neal’s Yard

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Fondue p0rn… 50% Emmental, 50% Comte, glass of white wine and a crushed garlic clove. YUM.

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Comte is one of those cheeses that you need to cook with - I find the taste too strong if eaten uncooked

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You’re on the wine at 11am?! :wink:

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…should have come shopping with me last night then.

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Haha.

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And another.image

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I just had a nice big omelette for lunch. Big grate of parmesan into the main egg mix. Then had a sizeable lump of dolcelatte, that had disappeared at the back of the fridge, that needed to be used. So chucked that in before ‘the fold’.

Oh my :kissing_heart:

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