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B312@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Is vegan cheese an actual thing?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Thankfully! My son has a dairy allergy but loves vegan cheese.
Stamets@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, it’s just plant based. Some of them are awful, other ones are shockingly good. Texture is usually pretty much the same. Basically like lactose free cheese now a days. 5 years ago it was plastic but now you can’t tell the difference.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Example pizza with vegan cheese:
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madjo@feddit.nl 4 days ago
It’s not Gouda, if it’s not from the town of Gouda. It’s just sparkling fake cheese.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
XD
Not entirely false. I’d honestly like to see a few more vegan Goudas seasoned properly with caraway seeds! (Not that most non-vegan cheeses get this right either…)
Flavour wise, vegan cheese is pretty good, but there’s definitely still room for improvement.
Ofc, a more “authentic” tasting vegan Gouda cheese probably wouldn’t even belong on pizza in the first place!
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 days ago
I made the mistake of ordering a pizza with vegan cheese a few years ago. It smelled and tasted rancid, in an overbearingly chemical way. I didn’t finish it.
In terms of ethical veganism, what happened to the genetically engineered yeasts that produced cow casein, and looked like a promising way of making animal-free dairy products?
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not all vegan cheese are equal, some are absolute garbage but many are delicious. Miyokos specifically is an amazing vegan mozzarella that I use for pizza all the time.
Shou@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah. Some vegan cheese is ok on a burger. But the uncanny homogenous texture freaks me out on a sandwich. It’s a weird transition. Also. Gouda is addictive. Nothing can beat gouda.