This cheese caramel is rather epic in nature: milky, salty, sweet. I was just @61local doing a tasting (more events soon) but you can also get @bedfordcheeseshop. We paired this with cranberry, chestnut, and coffee.
mirasingh
9yr
Cheese caramel is a thing?! How does this work?
garv
9yr
Individually I love goat cheese & caramel. Curious to sample them as one !
cheesegrotto
9yr
Actually, the cheese caramel is a blend of gruyere cheese, melted into cream and butter, and then folded into caramelized sugar. It is topped with flake salt. Not yet available at Bedford Cheese Shop....only through extremely small specialty batches through my website :-)
RahulRaRa
@cheesegrotto- I've sen crystals like this in cheese and it seems to give the cheese a nice crunch, but how do these form? Do they just take a lot of time?
cheesegrotto
@RahulRaRa Those are protein crystals that are concentrated protein chains. as the cheeses ages, it gets more dense, creating this crystallization. they are filled with the amino acid tyrosine that...