• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours 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.

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        18 hours ago

        Example pizza with vegan cheese:

        (Source: My dinner on Friday.)

        This one is 50% Daiya smoked Gouda block and 50% store brand veg Mozzarella.

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          5 hours ago

          It’s not Gouda, if it’s not from the town of Gouda. It’s just sparkling fake cheese.

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            4 hours 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!

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        16 hours 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?

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      18 hours ago

      This is my favorite sliced one. Some others are very oily when melted. Others are sweet. Others need to be cast into a deep pit, never to see the light of day again.