Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Warpiglet-7]

To be fair I'm talking more about American "processed cheese food" which only needs to be at least 51% cheese.

When I eat a hamburger adjacent product I am fine with a cheese adjacent topping.

I might especially feel that way when I pound beer adjacent products like coors light!

Murica! No shame in my game!

 

[Bedrockgames]

Is "American Cheese [Food Product]" to other cheeses like Pringles are to potato chips and Chicken Nuggets are to chicken breast?

It depends on the brand and type. If you are eating craft singles those taste pretty artificial. If you get a nice brand at the deli it is a very different experience

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I used to be on the anti-American cheese hate train until I started trying to level up my burger game -- I make better-than-restaurant quality burgers now, if I may say so -- and discovered J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and others explaining what American cheese is and how to replicate its meltiness with any other cheese.

Short answer: American cheese is cheese, it's just got a sprinkling of a naturally occuring powder that makes it melt more easily. You can order the powder for yourself off Amazon and make Cheddar or any other cheese melt the same way or even extract it from non-flavored Alka-Seltzer to add to your cheeses.

Every burger chef I read or watched on YouTube swore by American cheese as the cheese to put on burgers because of its even melting properties and many of them came prepared with long answers about American cheese, since they've heard these complaints before.

(For the record, I use Colby pepper jack on my burgers, but have American cheese I use when asked.)

 

[Bedrockgames]

Also in defense of American cheese tastes, we don't just eat American cheese. It is simply one type of cheese here, and it is there preferred cheese for things like grilled cheese or hamburgers for a lot of people. But you can still get gorgonzola. And stuff like cheddar is very popular here

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I used to be on the anti-American cheese hate train until I started trying to level up my burger game -- I make better-than-restaurant quality burgers now, if I may say so -- and discovered J. Kenji Lopez-Alt and others explaining what American cheese is and how to replicate its meltiness with any other cheese.

Short answer: American cheese is cheese, it's just got a sprinkling of a naturally occuring powder that makes it melt more easily. You can order the powder for yourself off Amazon and make Cheddar or any other cheese melt the same way or even extract it from non-flavored Alka-Seltzer to add to your cheeses.

Every burger chef I read or watched on YouTube swore by American cheese as the cheese to put on burgers because of its even melting properties and many of them came prepared with long answers about American cheese, since they've heard these complaints before.

(For the record, I use Colby pepper jack on my burgers, but have American cheese I use when asked.)

Wow. Learning new and bizarre but useful things every day.

 

[payn]

I use a deli white American when I make queso (mixed with some good quality Monterey). It just melts well and doesn't thicken up. The other secret is dehydrated milk.

 

[CleverNickName]

My secret weapon in making queso: a dollop of cream cheese. It emulsifies the cheddar and colby together so they don't split when I add them to the scalded milk.

 

[payn]

My secret weapon in making queso: a dollop of cream cheese. It emulsifies the cheddar and colby together so they don't split when I add them to the scalded milk.

I like mine blanco. Do you use dehydrated milk? I tried it once and now its my goto.

 

[Cadence]

It depends on the brand and type. If you are eating craft singles those taste pretty artificial. If you get a nice brand at the deli it is a very different experience

A Boar's Head brand hot dog vs. the lower quality other ones...

And my beloved Pimento Cheese also isn't a cheese in the USA legal sense either, it's a cheese spread [ (usually) grated cheddar, Mayo, and pimentos].

Also in defense of American cheese tastes, we don't just eat American cheese. It is simply one type of cheese here, and it is there preferred cheese for things like grilled cheese or hamburgers for a lot of people. But you can still get gorgonzola. And stuff like cheddar is very popular here

I wonder if it is the preferred cheese for hamburgers because too many people haven't yet tried pimento cheese on them, and it's hard to find at a burger place outside the south.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Today? It's cheese.

Not going to really comment (other than I love cheese, and I am particularly fond of the funk ...), but I just wanted to say that gosh darn it, this is the best hang goin' on these here intertubez.

Y'all are a credit to the virtues of aimless communication. Which is the best kind!