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	Only $12-20 for a pound! dez_chan 2009-03-04 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	Ah food elitism, my old friend! I love the people who emphasize GOOD cheese. It has to be GOOD cheese or your shit won't turn out. Don't have the cash to spend on GOOD cheese? Then I guess you're just a dirty plebe. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! microclimate 2009-03-04 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	It's a mystery why they thought that suggestion was sensible in today's economic market. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! sneer 2009-03-04 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	Well, if you're not willing to take out a loan or put your first born child on eBay to pay for your ingredients, you just don't have any business cooking at all. hmph sniff yeah, this kind of shit is the cancer that is killing cooking comms and /ck/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	imp 2009-03-04 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	Honestly, if you wont even fly to Italy once a week to purchase the finest cheese they have to offer, then you fail as a human being and might as well be eating garbage. For real. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dez_chan 2009-03-04 07:19 pm UTC (link)
	Now, now you can shop for cheese on the Internet! And then pay an extra ~5-10 bucks for shipping! How convenient! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	imp 2009-03-04 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	Whippersnappers have it easy. In my day, we went to Italy like REAL chefs! WE SWAM THERE. WE CARED THAT MUCH! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dez_chan 2009-03-04 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	ALSO WE BROUGHT OUR OWN COWS! ON OUR BACKS! BOTH WAYS! CHEESE WAS THAT IMPORTANT! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	doomsday 2009-03-04 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	WE WOVE OUR OWN CHEESECLOTH FROM COTTON WE PICKED OURSELVES! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! sandglass 2009-03-04 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	My favorite food snob story is watching one of the Test Kitchen shows on PBS, where they tried the different Parmesans and determined that, honestly, if it wasn't imported from Italy it's just not worth eating. They then cut to making garlic bread, and the chefs pulled out a bag of, gasp, Kraft cheese. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! singe 2009-03-04 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	the chefs pulled out a bag of, gasp, Kraft cheese.</i< Which is priceless! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! tachikoma01 2009-03-04 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	Usually, Test Kitchen is a good show. But when they fail hard, they fail hard. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Only $12-20 for a pound!

tachikoma01
2009-03-04 08:44 pm UTC (link)

I'll say there's definitely a taste difference between the local-made farmer's market mozzarella that I love and the supermarket stuff... but not enough to make massive food wank over.

Especially when the local stuff is too pricey to use as more than a sometimes treat... I'd rather not pay ten dollars for just the cheese for a pizza when I could probably make an entire pizza for about that using regular store ingredients.

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Re: Only $12-20 for a pound!

dez_chan
2009-03-04 09:50 pm UTC (link)

Oh, I won't say there's not a taste difference (and a texture difference. I tried making alfredo with Ye Olde Green Bottle parm and it turned out awful), and I do loves me some farmer's market (stimulating local economy ho!) but yeah...price difference like woah. And I'm not going to turn my nose up at a tasty delicious pizza that happens to use canned sauce and bagged cheese.

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	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! sceach 2009-03-31 03:37 am UTC (link)
	I...don't get a lot of comments I am seeing here. Honestly not trying to start drama, but...I don't know. It can be healthy AND good AND under fifty dollars, honest. It doesn't have to be from a big corporation, does it? I don't know, maybe I don't understand, but I exist on an SSI check and foodstamps and manage to avoid Kraft. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! slythwolf 2009-04-18 05:23 am UTC (link)
	I'm on food stamps too, and I avoid Kraft because I can't afford it. Store brands own my soul! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! notarose 2009-03-04 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder what they'd think if the cheese is $12/pound at the supermarket and $6/pound at Trader Joe's? Is that only GooD cheese? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! dez_chan 2009-03-04 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Well you know, price is the sole indicator of quality. It are fact. If you're not spending on average $15 for fettuccine alfredo then you're plainly doing it wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! theladyfeylene 2009-03-04 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	Man, even when I splurge at the omgawesome cheese shop in Seattle, I refuse to pay more than 5-7 bucks for a thing of cheese. And I don't even use it in cooking! The horror! I just om nom it on crackers! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! influencethis 2009-03-05 12:18 am UTC (link)
	As a poor college student, I have found the way to make up the difference in bad dry cheese and good dry cheese. 1. Buy bad cheese. 2. Grate. 3. Leave out until you remember it. 4. Congratulations! You have aged your own cheese. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! mercorir 2009-03-15 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	I lol'd. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! quinctia 2009-03-05 08:30 am UTC (link)
	Eh, growing up I had a friend whose father was from Macedonia and they constantly had a huge chunk of imported feta cheese in their refrigerator. It was good shit. If I was going to make an awesome dish that focused on feta, I might look into getting something similar. But when I want feta, I generally go buy the crumbles. The ones that come in the little plastic tub. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! vzg 2009-03-05 10:40 am UTC (link)
	I knew I should have bought that cheese instead of a train ticket home! (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Only $12-20 for a pound!

herongale
2009-03-05 01:29 pm UTC (link)

I've bought $40/lb cheese before. It can be totes awesome and I don't regret it one bit. Even if I bought a lot.

But there is no jones in the world like a jones for Kraft Extra Sharp Chedder. Unless perhaps it is the jones for Kraft American. I melt my cheese on peas or alchemize it into a grilled cheese sandwich by the addition of some wonderful cheap white bread, and voila. Instant comfort food. EASY.

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Re: Only $12-20 for a pound!

pfeffermuse
2009-03-06 05:04 am UTC (link)

That's why I love Queens. It's a global smörgasbord -- Italian, Irish, Greek, Chinese, Thai, German, Caribbean, Indian, Korean, Jewish, Polish, Russian -- at cheap prices.

Even better is to go shopping at the local, inexpensive neighbourhood delis, bakeries and markets really early in the morning (like between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m.). They all have stuff boxed up. labelled and ready to be picked up for delivery to Grace's Market, Dean & Deluca, and all the other tony Manhattan establishments.

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	Re: Only $12-20 for a pound! dez_chan 2009-03-06 06:17 am UTC (link)
	grumbles Curse you people and your "urban" living and your "multiculturalism"! I'm sick of having to explain to the cashier that the thing I'm buying is fennel/leeks/something that's not a potato. [/Midwestern pout] (Reply to this)(Parent)

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