Artisan Vegan Cheese: From Everyday to Gourmet

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These can be a good stepping stone to making your own vegan cheese entirely from scratch, while still giving you the satisfaction of having created something rather than having simply bought the end product from the shop. What Is Vegan Cheese Made From?

Like Tyne Chease, Mouse’s Favourite also uses cashew nuts as a base with the addition of salt and cultures. That said, Virgin offerings are organic and savory with the pleasing fatty mouthfeel that’s such an intrinsic part of traditional dairy cheese. Their individual and distinct characteristics — a mildly funky bleu, a salty, punchy French onion among others — bloom at room temperature or slightly warmed. Fresh from the fridge, however, they suffer from a certain sameness of flavor.

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How to create and use different fermentation starters to develop the rich and intense flavors aged cheese is known for. Nettle currently only has two varieties to choose from which are all fermented using live cultures and marinated in a blend of extra virgin olive oil and cold-pressed rapeseed oil. How to easily craft your own delicious vegan cheese creations at home - following simple step-by-step instructions. Generally speaking, there are very few vegan cheeses that would be classed as less healthy than their non-vegan counterparts, but there are plenty – particularly those made with coconut oil – that have roughly similar levels of saturated fat as dairy cheese. On the other hand, those vegan cheeses made from nuts tend to have much lower levels of saturated fats (usually less than half) of non-vegan cheeses. Ultimately, if health is your primary concern, neither vegan nor non-vegan cheese should be top of your list of foods to indulge in. But nut-based cheeses are certainly better for you than dairy options. Ethical Considerations

Supermarkets have finally cottoned on to the fact that the number of vegans is growing and will continue to grow in the UK in the coming years (partly driven by the strong environmental arguments to go vegan). As such, they’ve started to produce their own versions of popular vegan products, including vegan cheese. Here are how the main supermarkets are getting on at the time of writing. Cheese Name/Brand Using a mixture of oats, rapeseed oil, coconut oil and starch – among other things – Oatly have produced a cream cheese-like spreadable vegan cheese that is significantly lower in saturated fat than those that use more coconut oil. Strictly Roots uses a variety of different nuts and coconut to create its cheeses, providing a range of flavours and textures. I Am Nut Ok creates tasty vegan alternatives to classic cheese varieties such as cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella, feta and ricotta. Swiss-based vegan food maker Vegusto has started to break into the UK market of late and their No Moo Cheeses are proving very popular. Being from Switzerland, these guys even produce vegan cheese specifically for fondue and raclette so – as you could well imagine – it is made to melt very well. They have plenty of other options too, from No Moo Walnut Cheese to No Moo Blue Classic Cheese. Follow Your Heart Dairy

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If you want to go the whole hog (no, we don’t think using a saying that involves an animal is non-vegan), why not make your own vegan cheese. Many people will find it far easier and even cheaper to just buy some vegan cheese. But if you have time, patience and a desire to create something, it could be a rewarding option.

You’ll have to make your own mind up, but for us, given that it’s a 100% vegan product, it is perfectly fine. And if Applewood sell loads of their vegan products, maybe one day they’ll ditch dairy altogether.Speaking about the process, founder Gabrielle Le Cocq explained: “My approach is to keep the process as pure as possible – leaving it to the various fermentation cultures and processes to create a subtle variety of flavours rather than by adding extra flavours in.” I Am Nut Ok also offers a monthly subscription where adventurous customers can receive a selection of new vegan cheeses to try. Violife have three options for their grated cheeses: Cheddar Flavour, Original Flavour, and Mozzarella Flavour, which melts exceptionally well so works perfectly for homemade vegan pizzas. An Oxford University study showed that we could actually reduce global farmland by nearly 80% by switching to just growing crops rather than using land to produce animal protein. So there’s huge benefits, it’s not just carbon emissions; we’re talking about land use and water use.