Vegan Cheese

[nicademia]

I actually like tofutti brand cheese. They also make cream cheese and sour cream.

[TXknitter]

Christoph83 is absolutely right. I went raw vegan this year and this cheez used to be a staple for me. Try the American flavor first. It also melts into a glorious grilled cheez. Yummy.

[groar]

i am not a regular user of vegan cheese, i think it ranges from disgusting to ok.

tofutti cream cheese is good though. i consider that sort of a different thing.

the best cheeses i have tried are follow your heart (tastes inoffensive, melts ok) and teese (tastes a bit better, melts a bit better). teese is made by chicago soydairy, which is a smallish company run by actual vegans (they claim they are the only soy ice cream makers who make exclusively vegan products in their factory). i also like their ice cream (temptation) and they make MARSHMALLOWS called dandies that you can actually roast. those are hard to find in stores around here though.

it seems like every year there's a new vegan cheese that people say is amazing and melts and tastes just like real cheese, every year i try it and it's pretty eh, maybe a slight improvement on existing products. the hot thing this year is called daiya, it's made with a different process, no soy, and supposedly it melts and stretches like real cheese and is good enough to eat on a cracker. i haven't tried it yet though, we'll see. i'm trying to convince a local pizza place that offers teese instead of cheese to try it.

another one i hear a lot of good things about but haven't tried is cheezly.

[TXknitter]

Any Follow your Heart product is generally good. They have maintained their small business way of doing things, although they are in the big leagues now with profits and good for them!

[sendmorecops]

Originally Posted by groar

it seems like every year there's a new vegan cheese that people say is amazing and melts and tastes just like real cheese, every year i try it and it's pretty eh, maybe a slight improvement on existing products.

That's how I feel, I don't live in a place that sells vegan cheese, they're expensive...I can't keep up, so I stopped trying. I've tried teese and thought it was better than FYH, but still not thrilling. I do like cheezly and it can be shipped without an ice pack in cool weather, but I still have to order it so I rarely do. I haven't tried Daiya yet because i'd have to order it. I really liked Playfood raw cheeze but the place I got it from on occasion stopped selling it.

Cheese is an addiction (literally), but once you get over the addiction it's really no big deal. I make vegan pizza and macaroni and 'cheese' without any fake cheese aides and it doesn't taste like cheese, but the overall product is the same familiar, comforting food that I love.

The only thing I would flip over is if someone made vegan spreads for crackers, like port wine.

[groar]

you know, i bet that's do-able!

the kinds of cheeses i miss are feta, and the stinky ones - this cheese shop in nyc where i used to go before i was vegan had fake bleu cheese (but it was just lactose free, not vegan) that was just a solid blue-green color. creepy! i doubt there will ever be a reasonable vegan substitute for stinky cheeses.

i like making vegan mac & cheese too - it certainly isn't the same thing as the non vegan kind but it's a delicious casserole nonetheless. i use a modified version of the new farm mac & cheese recipe: Mac & Cheese! - C’est La Vegan

i halve the soy sauce, double the yeast, and add a tablespoon of brown mustard and a couple of shakes of hot sauce at the end.