ahhh… canned cheese
June 7th, 2007 | Published in general
My dad has this wonderful habit of occasionally mailing us packages of weird stuff. It’s a by-product of our family being somewhat scattered and unable to visit very often. Previous packages have contained dog puppets that sing christmas carols one note at a time when you close their mouth (hard to figure that one out), monkey slingshots that screech when they crash into something, and now, canned cheese.
It was developed at Washington State University in the 1940s as a cheese recipe that didn’t give off gas as it aged, making it suitable for canning and long-term storage. It will keep indefinitely when refrigerated, and they claim that customers have aged it another 30 years at home. That’s a long time to keep something in the ‘fridge.
The cheese it hard and a bit crumbly, and tastes like a nice well-aged cheddar. There’s nothing particularly weird about it other than it’s hard to slice and that it comes in a can. There is 30 oz of cheese in every can, so it was a good excuse to get out the food saver and vacuum pack 3/4 of it.
Thanks for the cheese dad! It goes nicely with a Summit Grand pilsner or two :-)