Anybody here every try Cougar Gold canned cheese? i am interested, saw it on TV on Food Finds and thought it sounded interesting…
I have it every year or so. It’s pretty sharp, yet still smooth. To me it has a lot of the flavor of Gjetost - that kind of cooked concentrated evaporated milk flavor, and cheddar together. It’s a little more aged and drier than cheddar. Try it and see how you like it. While it’s a splurge, a little goes a long way.
Has the price come down (perhaps due to a greater amount being produced)? The website lists it at $18, and I thought I’ve seen it sold in stores for nearly twice that before. Either that, or the stores are really marking it up.
Around $10/lb., it’s definitely worth it. It’s nothing spectacular, but at least as good as any high quality cheese out there. Best when you have a large gathering. As needscoffee said, a little goes a long way.
I have family that went to WSU and would always bring us back cans of white cheddar. It was really quite good. Like a previous poster said, it was sharp but still smooth… We always had trouble eating all of it before we got sick of the taste though.
I like experimenting with foods, and I have a potluck type party in September, so I was thinking of my vat of mac n cheese that they always ask for. Last year it got made with tillimuck cheddar. I think I will give it a try when we get back from Germany =)
It would be a real waste to use it in mac and cheese unless you eat all of the cheese that you can and have leftovers that would go to waste, which isn’t likely. The texture is so nice for eating - it’s harder than regular cheddar, sort of halfway between cheddar and parmesan, and it has little bits of crystallization in it that add to it. The flavor is very concentrated, and you’d lose that by using it in a sauce. It would be like getting a nice aged steak and grinding it up for meat loaf.
I like it. Nice and sharp.
WAZZU Class of '04. I eat it ALL THE TIME. Luckily I live 10 minutes from a branch campus.
Don’t think I’ve seen it for $36 but regular stores will market it up in the $24 range. Sometimes they’ll do limited runs of Gold that have been aged for 3 years instead of the usual one, so maybe you saw one of those.