Say CHEESE!

Hola my pretty faces :)

I'm back after my Easter break (+ one extra week of just PURE laziness) and I have something super cool (at least in my opinion) to review! A grocery store line close to my home just started carrying ONE brand of vegan cheese. FINALLY! I have been waiting for this for YEARS! I know American vegans have it much easier, because you've already had grocery stores carrying vegan cheeses for quite a while. But I'll give that one to you, because y'all also have so many more yummy non-vegan temptations to withstand (a.k.a. Taco Bell, ...). I could have ordered some cheese through various online shops, but that would be quite expensive and I didn't feel like it would be worth the hassle.


So, the cheese I got at Merkur (the grocery store) is called Wilmersburger Scheibenkäse and it cost 2,79 € per 150 g (that would be around $ 3,70 per 5.21 ounces) if I remember correctly. It’s not cheap, but it’s not something one is supposed to eat on a daily basis anyways so I think it’s alright. Now moving on to taste and texture. The structure is just like cow cheese slices and the color is pretty close to cow cheese as well. The taste is just like what’s known as American cheese or sandwich cheese. That might turn some people off, but I have always liked that sort of cheese and if I’m not completely crazy it tastes EXACTLY like Hochland Scheibenkäse (which I used to love, but we never bought it, ‘cause it was more expensive than other brands). I was pretty surprised at my family’s reaction to the taste as well. I almost expected them to make choking noises and spit it out haha. But they were good sports and confirmed the taste to be like American cheese. (The things written on the package mean: free of lactose, free of milk, purely based on plants and obviously vegan haha)

Of course I wasn’t satisfied with just trying a little piece of it. I made tortilla wraps with rice, guacamole, tomatoes and said cheese. I wasn’t sure if it was going to melt, because apparently some kinds of vegan cheese don’t. This cheese melts really good though! I was so happy when I saw how yummy my wraps looked haha. They tasted great!

 
To sum it up, I am VERY content with taste, texture, color and the ability to melt of this cheese. I’ll definitely buy it on a regular basis and recommend this to you guys as well :). I’ll have to really control myself though, ‘cause I’m typing this right now while eating a tortilla shell stuffed with literally only this cheese. Summer will be here soon, Katie, have some discipline damn it!

Thanks for reading this! Hope to see you again soon :)

Katie Lynn :)


 
PS: I tried making sweet potato fries again while I was at my parent’s house yesterday and they (the fries, not my parents haha) turned out just great! They only took about half an hour and weren’t burnt. So, I’m just going to blame my previous almost-catastrophe with them on the oven in my dorm’s kitchen.

PPS: If you guys can figure out the commenting function on this site (or on Twitter/Tumblr), let me know if you'd be interested in the actual ingredients of the cheese so I can post a picture of them.