baked melty warm tangy goats cheese is a thing of beauty

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:02, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Cheese should only really come out of a cow
I've had one, maybe two, sheep's cheeses that were tolerable.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:04, Reply)

what about buffalo mozzarella?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:04, Reply)

it's a cow.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:05, Reply)

apparently not
Buffalo milk has roughly twice the fat of cow milk, which makes it decadently creamy and flavorful. The good stuff is almost unrealistically soft — it seems like the reason the word “mouthfeel” was invented — with a depth of flavor that makes even the freshest hand-pulled artisanal cow-milk mozzarella taste like glorified string cheese. Buffalo mozzarella is the apotheosis of dairy: the golden mean between yogurt and custard and cottage cheese and heavy cream and ricotta. It lives (along with clouds and mercury and lava and photons and quicksand) on the mystical border between solid and liquid. Descriptions of it tend toward poetry. “When cut,” the cheesemonger Steven Jenkins has written, “it will weep its own whey with a sweet, beckoning, lactic aroma.”
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:07, Reply)

It's a cow.
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Tribe: Bovini

It's a fucking cow. Different breeds of cow have different fat content in their milk. It's still cow milk, sweetie.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:10, Reply)

isn't that like saying a scotsman is an englishman?
i'd like to see you do that in glasgow...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:11, Reply)

Er, no.
not at all like that in any way.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:12, Reply)

i would also like to see you trying to explain to a big, exotic buffalo
that he's just a cow
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:16, Reply)

buffalo milk comes from Asiatic water buffalo.
"big fucking hairy buffalo" are bison and "scary buffalo" are African Cape Buffalo.

Water Buffalo are about as dangeous as my office chair. Unless one sits on you.

That, and they don't speak English, so either way I reckon I'd be OK.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:20, Reply)

i'd pay good money to watch!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:27, Reply)

how much?
I can always do with a bit of consultancy income.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:28, Reply)

£1 an hour and all the buffalo mozzarella you can eat?
fresh from the source??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:34, Reply)

Soz, I don't get out of bed for less than *counts on fingers* about £40/h or sutin

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 13:45, Reply)

I think it's more like saying a Scotcher is British
Although I seem to remember McDozer trying to deny his Britishness once
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:13, Reply)

There's no such thing.
Buffala is the female in Italian - if your cheese is made from a buffalo, that ain't milk, brah. High source of protein though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 10 Oct 2013, 12:05, Reply)