Tasteless food

[remobb]

I like cooking occasionally and I thought I want to bake some quiche. So I went to the supermarket and bought the ingredients. Deciding which cheese to use I came across a pack of shredded 3 different cheeses together. Mmm I thought sounds good I'll give it a try. So off home with a smile on my face thinking this is going to be great. Get home and I decided I would give this 3 cheeses a try on cheese on toast. Well what a disappointment, I couldn't taste the cheese at all. Waste of 350baht. How do these companies get away with such c**p?  

Anyway, I will add some parmesan and buy another cheese, also add bacon and ham (I have made this before and it's yummy)   

 

What food do you find tasteless in Thailand?

[userabcd]

Is the cheese that American brand which can be found in makro?

 

Probably the package contains mostly mozzarella which is tasteless most of the time.

[remobb]

4 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Is the cheese that American brand which can be found in makro?

 

Probably the package contains mostly mozzarella which is tasteless most of the time.

I didn't buy it from Makro but it sounds the same as it has an American state name as the brand.

[Lacessit]

Look for Australian or Kiwi cheeses. We feed our cows real grass.

Alternatively, spend some real coin and get yourself tested for coronavirus.

[userabcd]

6 minutes ago, remobb said:

I didn't buy it from Makro but it sounds the same as it has an American state name as the brand.

Yes that's the one. Seen it often and have been tempted to buy, luckily I have not bought it.

[BritManToo]

500gm of Mainland Tasty @ 265bht from Makro does the job.

(for some reason Makro put a 470gm sticker over the 500gm label)

[OneeyedJohn]

U can't go wrong with Mainland.

 

I find the fancier or more jazzed up the packaging is , the worse the cheese is.  Have also found this is the case with bacon.

[OneeyedJohn]

40 minutes ago, remobb said:

What food do you find tasteless in Thailand?

Bananas                   

Edited June 27, 2020 by OneeyedJohn

[BigStar]

You get the cheese you pay for. The cheaper cheeses here no matter the brand aren't very good compared to the more expensive from Europe, usually considered overpriced. Now you know.

Edited June 27, 2020 by BigStar

[Speedo1968]

40 minutes ago, userabcd said:

Is the cheese that American brand which can be found in makro?

 

Probably the package contains mostly mozzarella which is tasteless most of the time.

Unless it is real mozzarella from buffalo milk - although with the reputation they ( buffalo ) have here I doubt if you will find it anywhere.      Perhaps in an Indian supermarket in Bangkok ?     If you can find it you can then make lassi, even bhang lassi if that way inclined.

[Pilotman]

The cheese you buy in the major supermarkets is, as the OP says, tasteless.  I cook a lot with cheese and I only use the Australian and English imported brands, that I can get in the few specialist farang food  shops in my local area.  Interestingly, it's cheaper to buy than the cardboard  cheese you get in Big C and Tesco etc.  The only exception seems to be TOPS,  which sells good quality cheeses,  but that is expensive stuff. 

[tifino]

a typical one to avoid... Kraft Slices

 

  - long known to not to be actual cheese 

 

 

but if you were really desperate; then melt a little Ghee along with it, to make up for the deficiencies

[robblok]

10 minutes ago, BigStar said:

You get the cheese you pay for. The cheaper cheeses here no matter the brand aren't very good compared to the more expensive from Europe, usually considered overpriced. Now you know.

Parents send me old Dutch Cheese straight from the factory around 5kg. Still expensive but I pay only postage. Lucky me.. havent found better stuff. 

[blackcab]

Moved to Western Food in Thailand forum.

[ezzra]

10 minutes ago, tifino said:

a typical one to avoid... Kraft Slices

 

  - long known to not to be actual cheese 

 

 

but if you were really desperate; then melt a little Ghee along with it, to make up for the deficiencies

Any slices cheese is nothing but an abominations of the term Cheese, as most if not all sliced cheese is nothing but the lowest of law of cheeses...

[tifino]

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

17 minutes ago, tifino said:

a typical one to avoid... Kraft Slices

 

  - long known to not to be actual cheese 

 

 

but if you were really desperate; then melt a little Ghee along with it, to make up for the deficiencies

Any slices cheese is nothing but an abominations of the term Cheese, as most if not all sliced cheese is nothing but the lowest of law of cheeses...

ah but Kraft Slices goes beyond that...

It is not a cheese 'at all'

 

try melting it, and the result is as per heating plastics

 

I would venture so far as to suggest that the Chinese  copied the Kraft Slices formulation

- to make their plastic rice with! 

 

Edited June 27, 2020 by tifino

[mr mr]

1 hour ago, remobb said:

What food do you find tasteless in Thailand?

anything british really. 

[1FinickyOne]

check the package.. I saw some shredded parmesan that had something like "parmesan style" cheese... whatever the heck that might be...

 

and yes, first sign of covid... 

22 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

The cheese you buy in the major supermarkets is, as the OP says, tasteless.  I cook a lot with cheese and I only use the Australian and English imported brands, that I can get in the few specialist farang food  shops in my local area.  Interestingly, it's cheaper to buy than the cardboard  cheese you get in Big C and Tesco etc.  The only exception seems to be TOPS,  which sells good quality cheeses,  but that is expensive stuff. 

what brand?

[tifino]

ummm... don't forget that a CCP Virus sufferer loses his sense of taste! 

 

 

laterally thinking

[bkk6060]

Packaged shredded cheese to me always loses its flavor.

Buy the small blocks.

[Pilotman]

6 minutes ago, kenk24 said:

check the package.. I saw some shredded parmesan that had something like "parmesan style" cheese... whatever the heck that might be...

 

and yes, first sign of covid... 

what brand?

Its unbranded in the shop where I buy it, It is just blocks of Australian or English Cheddar.  'Siamburys' among other outlets

[twocatsmac]

Extra strong mature cheddar style cheese 270 baht a kilo in Udon Thani.

All farang meat shops and a couple bar/restaurants sell it, I’d never buy cheese at makro, big c etc, too expensive.

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, remobb said:

I like cooking occasionally and I thought I want to bake some quiche.

Mmmmmm!????

 

[stephenterry]

Any packaged processed junk food, including hormonal dairy products.

[worgeordie]

51 minutes ago, OneeyedJohn said:

Bananas                   

You must not have tried the small variety of Thai Bananas,Gluay Khai,

only available during the rainy season,they are the only one I eat,

they remind me of the Canary Island bananas you used to get in UK,

until the EU stopped the import as they did not confirm to their standards

of what a banana should look like,they were small bananas that had fantastic

taste.

regards worgeordie

 

[NanLaew]

7 minutes ago, stephenterry said:

Any packaged processed junk food, including hormonal dairy products.

Whoops! Manboobs!

[ChipButty]

You cant beat a nice piece of Stilton and a glass of port

[tifino]

15 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

1 hour ago, remobb said:

I like cooking occasionally and I thought I want to bake some quiche.

Mmmmmm!????

 

 

"... and I'm so tough - I'll eat Quiche in a TruckStop" 

[tifino]

 Varicose vein, and Camelbutt

 

yummy 

[Lone Ranger]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

500gm of Mainland Tasty @ 265bht from Makro does the job.

(for some reason Makro put a 470gm sticker over the 500gm label)

Mainland Mature & Vintage versions were also available until a few months ago & after several complaints still only Tasty available.

Try Villa Market -Cathedral City mature & extra mature...more than 250gms I think at 250 baht -absolutely superb !