My wife is fond some cheese curds that she says make he teeth squeak. Anyone know what brand this is and where I can find it in Austin Tx?
Are you sure it has to be a brand? Just try, first, going to the supermarket cheese counter and asking for fresh cheese curds.
This. Speaking as someone who grew up in Wisconsin: any fresh cheese curd will squeak when you bite into it. There’s not a particular brand that specifically is squeaky.
The trick is that they have to be fresh. I don’t know the Austin area well enough to know if fresh cheese curds can even be found in the grocery stores there.
I can’t eat them, so I can’t test them.
Cheese curds that aren’t fresh enough to squeak may sometimes be revived by putting them in a colander and steaming them for a brief period. YMMV
Try 15 seconds in the microwave.
Making poutine?
No, for out-of-hand eating.
My wife likes halloumi cheese, because she says it squeaks, in case fresh curds aren’t an option.
I’ve heard that as well (though I think I heard 7 seconds), however, leaving them out of the fridge and letting them get up to, or at least closer to, room temperature will make a difference as well. IME, even fresh cheese curds don’t squeak when they’re cold.
Whether or not OP is going to be able to find fresh curds in Texas, I don’t know. I do know that a lot of people pick them up at my place on their way to the airport though.
You might need to find an actual cheese store (or cheese maker). Or, barring that, see if you can find an out of state store that will ship them to you. They can easily go at least a day without being refrigerated so shipping isn’t usually a problem (as long as 1 or 2 day shipping isn’t cost prohibitive).
Just look for any gas station that has a sign saying they have fresh cheese curds. And don’t confuse them with the night crawlers.
Or is that just a Wisconsin thing? ;-D
Haloumi was my first thought, which should be fairly readily available as a cheese. Can’t help you with curds - you’d think that would be a major selling point and something they’d put on the packaging.
Oh, we do!
Double-plus good!!
Central Market almost certainly has them, and may have someone to help you
Thanks, folks! I’ve never considered myself spoiled for living in Wisconsin.
But we do get “fattening German stuff” super-fresh… sausages/bratwurst, beer (come try a Spotted Cow on tap), and cheese.
I didn’t know you could get curds that didn’t squeak!
(Now, if only we could get fresh Sea Bass down at the docks…)
Sadly I am fresh cheese curd deprived here in Tucson. Trying to explain to co-workers that buying not-fresh ones isn’t the same has them puzzled.
I remember the days we could walk a quarter mile down the beach to the local Lake Michigan fishery (run by my cousin) and get fresh caught perch, whitefish, and lake trout.
And those days are starting to return; our lake is getting commercially fished again for some of those catches. Just not so conveniently located. Though I recently had a fish fry of Lake Michigan whitefish that was so amazing.
SQUEAKY CHEESE!!!
Man that brings back memories. We have a cheese factory(now owned by some french company) that used to be locally owned. You could take tours and get various cheese products at the shop. We would go as a family now and then when I was a kid and buy squeaky cheese curds in these huge 3 and 4 pound bags (sizes may vary by age and memory, may not match what really happened)
Sigh, good times.
Lactalis is the big one.