I had lunch yesterday at Tapas del Costco - one of the items was a Habanero Cheddar from Cabot Cheese.
Descended from old time dairymen as I am, I love a good white cheddar and Cabot does that well. I also have picked up a love of peppers, but never would have guessed how good the combo is.
I wonder what my grandfather - who aged 40 lb wheels of white New York cheddar until the odor drove my grandmother out of the house - would say?
Try it - you’ll like it!
I just had some Chipotle Gouda last night. Shredded it and put it on some tacos. VERY good.
Reported for forum change and for making my mouth water.
The Cabot habanero cheddar doesn’t pull any punches on the heat. It’s good stuff, and the fruity flavor of the peppers really comes through with the cheese.
Moving over to Cafe Society.
Beechwood cheese in WI has on occasion made a lovely white habanero cheddar, not sure whether they’ve got a batch now. But they regularly use habanero and other hot peppers to make some great stuff, like chipotle chedder and habanero jack.
I love habaneros. I love cheddar. I don’t really like the combination of habanero and cheddar, though, unless it’s really shitty cheddar I’d prefer not to taste anyway.
Now you’ve made MY mouth water. Pray tell, where can one purchase (or rather, where do YOU purchase) ‘Beechwood’ cheese?
Do I have to go all the way to Wisconsin? 
Count me as a fan.
I don’t relly like it on sandwiches because it tends to overpower, but munching of a hunk with a cold beer is very enjoyable.
I guess I should explain that I don’t really like any flavored cheeses in general, except maybe very young/fresh cheese paired with fruit. Bacon cheddars, horseradish cheddar, any type of hot pepper cheddar, etc., are not my bag. I’ll take a good cheddar any day over any of that stuff.
The local Amish market has a habanero cheddar- it’s very hot, but very good.
We just planted habaneros this last weekend. We grew them last year, and loved 'em. Habaneros, if you can handle the heat, have a wonderful fruity flavor.
OH NO!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
They just shut down last week.
What I have in my fridge is all I’ll get.
:(:(
Oh well, there’s always Gibbsville.
Holy moly, are you serious? I’ll make an emergency run to the Kewaskum Piggly Wiggly, they had loads of it there last week.
I like the Cabot’s on crackers and with cold beer too. It’s not bad on a burger either.
Our Sam’s has this cheese, but I’ve never tried it. But now I’m inspired to run out and grab it.
Grab me some chipotle cheddar if they have it, m’kay?
I haven’t tried habanero cheddar, but I’ve had a couple habanero jack cheeses that I’ve liked. Though I haven’t eaten them by themselves. What I do is chop a bit and melt it into alfredo sauce when I’m making pasta.
Habs, particularly the orange or if you can get them ripe enough the red ones, do have a fruity taste. And its not some subtle pepper snob thing. If you can tolerate the heat its actually pretty strong. I think I even started a thread about it a year or two ago.
Go to Walmart or wherever and buy orange habs (or grow you own). Puree them with enough vinegar to make a slurry. Put that on slices of your favorite cheese. Wonderful.
Yancey’s Fancy, a local cheese company, makes some good habanero flavored cheeses. But my preference in a “hot” cheese is their Buffalo wing cheese.
Yep. All the habanero-type peppers (capsicum chinense–habanero, Scotch bonnet, fatalii, bhut jolokia/ghost, etc.) all have a very distinct flavor that is quite different than your typical capsicum annuum or capsicum frutescens peppers like Tabasco peppers, cayennes, Thai, serrano, jalapeno, etc. “Fruity” is the adjective usually used to describe it, but I’m not sure I would call it “fruity” if I hadn’t been prompted by others to use that descriptor. It’s just a distinct flavor I can’t quite pin down other than calling it “that habanero flavor.” It’s also what makes habaneros taste completely wrong to me in certain cuisines. Like, I love habs, but they don’t taste right to me in Thai or East Asian dishes.
I’ve actually had their Buffalo wing cheese. It’s exactly as advertised. Tastes like Franks Hot & cheddar.
We don’t have a Costco here, but I’ve had somebody’s Habanero Cheddar and it was awesome. If I run into it again, I’ll post the brand name. I honestly can’t remember which store of the four or five we frequent I got this at.