Melting Vegan Cheese vs Normal Cheese

I DO enjoy this vegan melty cheese from a vegan burger spot we go to.
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[@Jeanelleats]

🧀 Do you eat vegan cheese? Is there a really good brand you like?

[@Angela_WowNice]

I don’t eat vegan cheese

[@NiallandthePotatoesYa]

I'm early hello

[@bugerang]

chao is really good, and so is daiya!

[@ronpogi97]

Hi Jeanelle, I'm also lactose intolerant, i never had when i was growing up but developed it when I drank this weight gainer called mutant (protein powder)....it was advertised to have 3K calories in one scoop soooo that sounded good at the time but it was one of my biggest regret since i love dairy, but have you ever heard of lactose enzyme chewables/ tablets? It was truly a life changer when i tried them,i have ones that is for 1 a day, i can eat any dairy without anymore pains in my tummy for the day. 🙂 i hope you can read this and help you to enjoy dairy like me!! Have a great day!!

[@patricebright4182]

Choa and follow your heart melts and taste better

[@sarahsmiles4607]

I accidentally purchased vegan mozzarella, and damn near had an aneurism trying to figure out why it wouldn’t melt when we made pizza. Luckily I had the good sense to finally check the package. While is tastes decent, it will absolutely not melt under any circumstance lol

[@npoznak]

I add tomatoes over the cheese and/ or vegan butter to help it melt. Some brands of vegan cheese do melt without help, such as Follow Your Heart. Animal dairy is quite a cruel, destructive business.

[@neemzito3159]

Aneurysm

[@alexeinshnymiscarinokorovi4029]

@@npoznak It's different for every Country, but I won't fight your Opinions since we have Choices.

[@donttalktomebye]

which cheese did you get? some of them dont melt and spread in the way you expect it to but it still does the job if you cook it right

[@anhtunguyen781]

@@npoznak i just want to ask about the cruelty you are talking about, if you want to say that caging animals is cruel and violent then I agree on some certain level, just that I recetly see some people arguing that milking the cows hurt them when it acutally not, the same thing with misconceptions like when we get wool we have to kill the sheep but no just need to shave them

[@lemonkombucha]

Violife and Miyoko's mozz vegan cheese is the best. Also if store bought vegan cheese is too processed for your liking you can make homemade cashew cheese and it works pretty well. I’m allergic to dairy, so I’ve had to learn some about vegan foods.

[@pipsasqeak820]

Could try stinky tofu...for some reason once it ferment it starts behaving and smelling like cheese and taste like it

[@iluvearth99]

Miyoko's mozz is so good! I haven't tried it melted yet, but i went through a whole package in like 3 days just putting it on toast w olive oil and pepper. They're my favorite brand of vegan butter too

[@lemonkombucha]

@@pipsasqeak820 that could be because fermented things have lactic acid and lactic acid is what makes cheese have that tangy and cheesy flavor. so that makes a lot of sense.

[@lemonkombucha]

@@iluvearth99 right? I love it. My mom loves the butter too. I’ve never really tried it. I usually use Earth Balance butter.

[@iluvearth99]

@@lemonkombucha earth balance is good! I tend to use it when I'm baking. It can also be easier for me to find a lot of the time

[@plasticmyelin]

Vegan cheeses are trying to replicate the texture of cheese, so some of them replicate the texture of normal cheese and some are better at replicating the texture of melted cheese. You just have to figure out which one yours is. Usually if you get a vegan cheese imitating a type of cheese often used melted, like cheddar, it will be good melted. I make ham and cheese sandwiches but I always have to melt the cheese because it tastes awful if you don't. But, for something like parmesan which is usually used as a garnish on top of a salad or pasta, most vegan parmesans won't melt, and are meant to imitate the texture of solid parmesan.

[@creativejuicefordayz4557]

Yup exactly!

[@zoeywilliams4848]

I’m not vegan, but I love vegan cheese. I don’t go out of my way to buy it bc I also love regular cheese, but tbh in not super picky, they’re both delicious to me

[@Sophie-um4vz]

Same!

[@SuperFoxdemon]

I’m allergic to dairy so I eat that particular brand of cheese pretty often. It melts in a microwave or oven. It needs sustained heat to melt otherwise it burns. But it’s very good. That particular on is made of coconuts so it’s a little sweet. They also make one from chickpeas that tastes a little more like regular cheese

[@MaxTheCookingDaddy]

Fun fact long age chesses dont have any lactose so think like mounster chesse, parmegiano reggiano, cheddar and more.

[@TheOtomeJenny]

The Follow Your Heart parm isn’t meant to really be melted. Get the shreds or slices of Follow Your Heart or Violife 😊

[@meghanhixon3241]

This isn't shredded?

[@meghanhixon3241]

And if it waa meant for pizza shouldn't it melt? Wasn't all cheese meant to melt

[@waterdog737]

Love the honesty, nothing can replace actual cheese

[@tayk.t.523]

Actual cheese is harmful- I'd rather eat something that my brain tells me is a little less tasty rather than something that has to suffer for my own tastebuds.

[@desertrainfrog1691]

@@tayk.t.523 Why is it so wrong for us as humans to kill and eat animals when so many other animals, especially omnivores, do this as well?

[@BeesRecipes]

@@desertrainfrog1691 because humans kill animals (99% of all farm animals are factory farmed) by raising them from birth in a factory and giving them little to no space to move around so they gain weight and then forcibly impregnate them to make more babies until they can't make babies anymore and then they're killed. Then they put those babies in cages until they're fat enough to kill too- or in some cases the babies are immediately shot in the head or thrown into a grinder alive if they're deemed not good enough to forcibly impregnate. The cycle repeats. I could go on. Nothing about this is natural. It's not even remotely comparable to animals killing other animals in the wild. These farms are more easily compared to a death camp.

[@desertrainfrog1691]

@@BeesRecipes So you're alright if I go kill a deer this weekend, hypothetically? Because it's not factory farming?

[@BeesRecipes]

@@desertrainfrog1691 of course :). as long as you eat most of the deer, it's much more ethical than giving your money to factory farms.

[@zeppelin695]

More processed does not necessarily mean worse for you.

[@k.a.t.t1262]

But like 90% of the time it is worse.

[@neonice]

@@k.a.t.t1262 But also because you don't understand how an alternative product is made doesn't necessarily mean it's more processed. Cashew cheese for example can be easily made at home.

[@anikaa439]

We tried vegan cheese on pizza once and it tasted AMAZING

[@leonayoung]

i love ur pfp! nezuko is an ICON

[@anikaa439]

yeeesssss nezuko chaaan

[@cameronbennett8151]

Do you remember the brand or have the recipe?

[@AngelOnHerFlight]

Vegan cheese is good when it's homemade. I make vegan lasagna with homemade cashew sour cream quite often and it's delicious. I'm not into store bought vegan cheese, for homemade vegan cheese tastes better and usually has fewer ingredients.

[@spinbot2000]

Without casein you won't get the same melting/stringy texture dairy cheese has. The good news is that a couple of companies are working on a bacterial created casein that would make a vegan cheese even closer to the real thing.

[@minksrule2196]

The reason I don't eat real cheese is because I can't handle casein 😁

[@blusclues2429]

@@minksrule2196 oof 💀

[@bi.fruitsalad]

Yes I tried a few vegan brands and they all melt well compared to others I’ve tried in the past

[@amberfigueroa3527]

I actually love the follow your heart vegan parm. If the texture weirds you out, they have grated parm as well and you absolutely cannot tell the difference between that and the dairy version.

[@meyganmarino]

As a vegan I do not eat this often, but thank you for addressing the animals and the sustainability

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Although making your own cheese or getting it from someone who does is absolutely fine in fact probably good for the environment. only factory farming is bad

[@tayk.t.523]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek So you don't eat factory farmed animals, right? You only eat small farm and ethical dairy, and no meat unless the animal has already passed away due to other causes?

[@TheSunBringsJoy]

@@tayk.t.523 you shouldn’t eat meat from an animal who already passed away. You do understand there are people who raise their animals lovingly and can dispatch the animal quickly and effectively making it the most humane ? It’s not like a torturous factory that doesn’t care for the well being of the animal, just wants to pump them full to fatten up and execute them quickly and not humanely.

[@giochay77]

But its the same result though

[@dreaming-of-spots6805]

Except neither of those factors are actually truth- dairy cows don't produce milk if they're stressed. Period. It's not even that they produce less, but if they get really stressed out, they dry up completely. They're some of the most spoiled rotten animals ever. And crop agriculture is almost as bad if not worse than animal agriculture. Your best bet for genuine best-practice environmental sustainability and animal welfare is to buy locally (no/minimal impact from transportation!), from farmers that you know use good practices. For both animal products and crops.

[@Sophie-um4vz]

I've had the experience that vegan cheese melts in contact with liquid like for example tomato sauce on pizza. That's REALLY delicious (when you know it's not cow's cheese and aren't flabbergasted by wrong expectations 😁)

[@CreamyAvocado-jq8he]

The Europeans also treat animals nicely when it comes to the milk for making cheese. The difference is that the farmers who produces the milk feeds them and in the case of Europe let them roam free in very wide grassy plains. Vegan cheesemakers doesn't do any of that.

[@jolieaXmarie]

Europe still has bad living conditions for milk cows. They don't always get to go on the wide grass plains. Animals for food production are never treated nicely. So vegan cheese makers don't have to mistreat animals for a delicious product

[@definitelynotavegan7285]

No they don't. I've seen British dairy farms. Just as bad as any American

[@Mitters]

Just take a lactaid if they're available there or something similar before eating cheese! No more gas 😍

[@bodyofhope]

I'm a big cheese lover, and vegan cheese never does the job for me. I can go without meat, but cheese and chocolate are two of my great pleasures lol. The only vegan cheese I've ever had that lived up to dairy- was a Daiya Key Lime Cheesecake. Scrumptious!

[@Therealmilkmanm]

Depending on how you do it- you can get cheese and treat animals well, you know. Its just their milk, you don't hurt her you just pull on her nipple. Might even feel satisfying for the cow actually, if its been building up for a while.

[@digitalkenz]

they have to have just given birth in order to make milk

[@anhtunguyen781]

yeah I see some people like PETA say that it is cruel to milk the cows, like no, actually their utters et hurt if we don't do anything and just leave them there

[@brunoslago]

@@anhtunguyen781 that's because they are repeatedly raped (by hand) and kept pregnant so that they are always lactating

[@brunoslago]

milk is not ours to take, and it does hurt and cause infections because of how rough farmers are on them

[@anhtunguyen781]

@@brunoslagostill I wouldn't call the act of milking is cruelty (the whole process is indeed bad) I get the reason people fighting against these but sometimes they don't understand enough and just be biased.

[@annahanson2584]

My bother and I are mildly allergic to dairy and this is the best parmasen cheese that I've ever had. It goes best if you eat it as a topping for herb bread or spaghetti:)

[@haseul4love274]

as a vegan I don’t recommend to buy vegan cheese , I recommend to make your own cheese with fresh ingredients it taste so much better and melts amazing

[@elinalukaziak693]

Yeah it's processed and not good for you

[@ashleylaughter4077]

Cheese go through a process too. Parmesan is lengthy

[@rachel.richter0]

I’ve never had vegan cheese. I don’t like normal cheese, so I’m good.

[@gunjeebus3453]

How do you not like normal cheese are you lactose intolerant or braindead?

[@rachel.richter0]

@@gunjeebus3453 Wow. That was a nice statement. I like cheese, but only melted. I don’t like cheese from a fridge or something. It’s gross.

[@mecps4720]

@@gunjeebus3453 who hurt you, the toxicity was unnecessary

[@gunjeebus3453]

@@mecps4720 cheese

[@IsaiahCarroll95]

I'm not lactose intolerant (say my doctors) but I turn to Vegan Cheese for a lot of dishes. I've learned to make them from scratch at home with cashews/almonds/walnuts. A lot of the store bought vegan cheese have a lot of ingredients for shelf life preservation that aren't that great for you and they are really expensive. I recommended people learn! I learned from KZbin

[@donttalktomebye]

the important thing about vegan cheese brands is to a) understand that its not gonna work like milk cheese and b) understand and figure out the purpose each brand and kind of cheese is trying to fulfill. the cheese you are using is not for the purpose you used it for lol. the best plant parm for melting is violife. yeah its a bit of work if its something you are new to but just like any form of exploring food you just have to research and try new foods

[@Myladyinred999]

And try lots of it lol 👍😂

[@2kmerz]

Do more vegan/vegetarian content please! It’s needed more and more with the future of climate change we’re running full force into

[@dreaming-of-spots6805]

Crop ag has just as much impact as animal ag does tho. What we need is a full overhaul of the agricultural system as it is right now. Animals will be a part of any sustainable agricultural system- they're great for pest control, weed control, fertilizer, grazing down fields, pigs can be ran through to churn up the soil before seeding, etc. And then they convert our offshoots (soybean meal, damaged produce, rice bran, corn stalks, etc.) Into useable food, and we don't have to incinerate those offshoots/byproducts (there's too much produced daily to process otherwise- and there would be even if we completely converted our agricultural system to a 100% eco friendly and sustainable system tomorrow bc of the simple fact we're feeding around 8 billion people). Animals also are amazing in places where crops aren't viable- because it's too steep and craggy for fields (Scotland) or too hot and dry to sustain enough cropland to feed everyone (Egypt, the American southwest). Goats and sheep thrive on minimal water and tough browse. What's a sustainable and viable diet will vary from region to region and continent to continent.

[@dani_dupae]

My mom made baked spaghetti with vegan cheese and beyond beef and it was bussin ✨ also heyyy to all the lactose intolerant peeps 😉

[@paolaroque8447]

Almond cheese melts nicely! I’d recommend

[@BeesRecipes]

If you're talking about the almond cheese by lisanatti foods, that brand is only lactose free but still has casein in it so it is not a vegan cheese.

[@violetsb7000]

To be fair you were using Parmesan which is one of the hardest cheeses to melt imo it takes forever

[@patricebright4182]

Chao Vegan cheese and follow your heart Vegan cheese melts and taste a lot better

[@annegreenwood3624]

daiya melts really nice

[@Noobixm]

I have a package of vegan cheddar in the fridge. That stuff literally doesn’t feel like food at all. But it tastes alright I’d say.

[@polarweis]

For pizza i use a cup of vegan cheese and ad a egg yolk and little water and let it set for 15 min, it melts better and looks more like normal cheese and it doesnt taste like egg

[@mikaylaoj]

Violife Parmesan wedge melts instantly I use the fine side of my grater (like she does with the dairy parm) and it melts straight on hot food

[@clashdevil2925]

If it wasn't this expensive I would always use vegan cheese cause I think its taste a little bit better

[@juliakolodziej9729]

most vegan cheese melts in the microwave, its harder to melt it in the oven and such

[@willit344]

Dairy cows are treated like royalty

[@definitelynotavegan7285]

..... 😐

[@L0veforAll]

A vegan cheese I get (i have a dairy allergy) is rlly good it’s melts well too

[@michaelakrumwiede]

there's a protein in cheese that can't really be replicated for vegan cheese, making it so that it doesn't melt

[@freyat5660]

"Normal" cheese goes through just as much processing and has a lot of ingredients as well. They just do not have to list them. Plant based is so much better for so many reasons it just takes a little time to adjust. It's not that it's not "real" it's just that we are all accustomed to the animal based ones and change can feel weird or hard. PS there are some really good ones that melt better. 😘 Violife is a good one, SoDelicious, and Miyokos!!

[@TempestWind87]

I really recommend Vio and Daiya. Give them a try!

[@GaryCandyPrince]

honestly I hate vegan cheese, it's not for me. but I respect that people like it

[@CaroLina-dg9gb]

I’m a cheese addict and the first time I tried industrial vegan cheese I was just…well, not very impressed. Then I tried this recipe for almond ricotta: because you already know it’s almond, your expectations of the taste are more realistic, but the texture is actually what’s special about this recipe!

[@haresmahmood]

As a Dutchman, I take my cheese very seriously - if it doesn't melt, it ain't cheese

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

I am not lactose intolerant but I am cholesterol prone and have sky high cholesterol at just 25 years old. So I've switched to vegan cheese for probably 3 out of 4 meals that include cheese. When in the future they come out with vegan cheese that has less ingredients yet melts better I will probably make the switch fully to vegan cheese. Taste isn't an issue, it's just the melting aspect that is often hard to deal with.

[@pewdiepie9196]

looks so yummy

[@EllieCedar]

Ironically I eat much more "cheese" since becoming vegan, vegan cheese just tastes better to me Edit: also there's definitely vegan cheese that melts better than that

[@ComeGetUrFeetPics]

Yes! Try some chao cheese it’s so good! It melts perfectly and is delicious with bread and snacks!!

[@xwrtk]

My cousin gets chao cheese and melts easily. He’s just lactose intolerant. Other cheese do melt easily that are lactose intolerant friendly but he likes that one the best.

[@animerehab]

im also lactose intolerant! but i cant have most vegan cheeses because i have a nut allergy 😅

[@jarodh-m6099]

Vegan cheese usually can only maximize one aspect of cheese generally.

[@hashtagmate]

Parmesan doesn't contain lactose, it is natually lactose free And it is not meant to be heated to very high temps as it will clump and lose it's flavor profile

[@dimpled_skeptic93]

Daiya is amazing

[@Wasabisaurus08]

I've found vegan cheese needs moisture like steam to melt. When I put vegan cheese on veggie burgers I drop some water around it in the pan and cover it for maybe 1 minute and it melts well.

[@oatmilkfiend9627]

Try Miyokos!!

[@taramcalonan6609]

Don't melt the Follow Your Heart parm shreds. They taste great sprinkled over pasta with marinara.

[@cameorayne4557]

I have gassy issues with dairy but I found if I take a lactose enzyme before ingesting I dont get gas! 😊😊

[@jklau544]

“I would rather just eat real cheese and deal with it…” YEP exactly

[@daviesamberhoars4722]

“Melts almost instantly” oh yeah thats why you needed the time-lapse right?

[@dionysus7653]

If you spray vegan cheese with some low calorie oil spray or something, it will melt easier

[@VIpanfried]

That was informative, I was thinking about picking up some vegan cheese, but also didn’t like the processed-ness. Now I know it won’t melt!

[@Myladyinred999]

That‘s not true, there are vegan cheese options out there that clearly say right on the packaging that they melt. You only need to buy the right ones for melting purposes 👍 Also there are great recipies online for vegan cheese that melts 😋

[@wag1513]

“and deal with the gassyness” 😂

[@pillow3209]

omfg you gotta try VIOLIFE CHEESE, it literally just tastes like mozarella and melts faster than regular cheese LMFAO

[@PeaceLoveAndRico]

I make my own. It's a super secret recipe and process. But it's so good, I could sell it.

[@Zack-tc9us]

Yes, vio life and chao are the best vegan cheeses

[@scarecrowjones1]

Here come all the vegans to defend their vegan cheese

[@tayk.t.523]

Wh... you're the only one who got offended in the comments here?

[@definitelynotavegan7285]

Me, a vegan, who doesn't like cheese of any kind: 😶

[@scarecrowjones1]

@@tayk.t.523 what makes you say I’m offended? It was just teasing joke

[@scarecrowjones1]

@@definitelynotavegan7285 huh, well I guess that makes things easier

[@leaf6777]

many "normal" cheese variants are lactose free/low in lactose levels

[@nodawnnoday34]

I love follow your heart. SO is also great!

[@Cels_alot]

fun fact parmesan cheese is not made of cow milk but goat milk

[@TriciaEstocado-ig1eq]

I take the vegan cheese!" You, Lisa your friend is blessed, spoiled girls who is lucky your family still together ❤

[@moss5538]

dried yeast flakes is such a good substitute for cheese cause i have a dairy allergy

[@neon17.08]

Oh yes, Nutritional Yeast is so good, and it melts when it comes in contact with hot liquids. It can work on pizza if you put the sauce on top or are using it in a cheesy sauce.

[@marijuanagrande2437]

normal cheese is just as processed but to each their own

[@laureltree8047]

I kind of steam my vegan cheess and it melts great

[@khael2127]

Most vegan cheese don't melt, it's because they don't have a protein called casein which is what makes normal cheese stretch, though i have heard about some types of vegan cheese melting

[@npoznak]

Vegan cheeses are being developed to be just like animal-sourced cheeses

[@veganpowerhouse]

Cows milk cheese goes through a lot of processing too.

[@durva28]

Tru

[@grzyb11]

The rpoblem is that when it melts it’s more similar to sauce than cheese

[@love3kl1]

I respect your decision

[@aiden1550]

More vegan videos please omg

[@ImaLilMonster2]

Not the blow torch 😭

[@kittycatrosie7515]

I got the violife cheddar slices the other day and found that the texture and taste weren’t the best cold but it melted easily and tasted MUCH better that way..the flavour did kind of remind me of buttered popcorn though which was strange. I’m excited to keep trying different kinds and hopefully find ones that I like!

[@Skyyqueentrees]

It melts when you add moisture

[@amaracoon7631]

Check out love Amaro pizza. He makes the best vegan cheese. And the best pizzas.

[@celyzy5868]

Normal ppl: in discussion abt the cheeses n stuff Me: dang u hav a blow torch lying ard... nice 😎👍🏼✨👌🏼

[@madelinecreates8825]

I caught that cheese pun 😉

[@ecave3435]

I've tried Vegan Cheese, and honestly since we have a rule to not throw away edible food, we divide it all and it taste quite horrible yet not bad enough to hate

[@kdjoshi726]

Don't think I'll ever try a vegan cheese I love my mozzarella cheese

[@tayk.t.523]

Try a vegan cheese! A good brand tastes as good (to some it tastes better), and you can eat it without guilt :)

[@Bidoof_Fan7]

Prolly because it's supposed to be parmesan, I don't have much experience but parmesan doesn't really melt well

[@musicbox1905]

Being Filipino it's so hard to be a vegan.

[@GarlickBraid]

I don't like buying vegan cheese, we basically makes it at home. I feel it tastes better.

[@vixt0r1aa]

0:06 “a GRATER variety-“ 😏

[@XxFluffyxX]

What's the problem with a lot of ingredients and/or processing?

[@gissellehehe4289]

Try daiya vegan cheese!

[@SnowAfterFire]

It doesn't have casein so it doesn't melt. scientists will probably come up with a way to extract that protein from sources other than dairy, like fungi

[@royale_sweetheart]

The vegan teacher would give a check mark for the vegan cheese

[@OoTaLs]

i know many are saying you can just make ur own vegan cheese but i just wanna warn anybody looking to make it homemade it doesn't last as long in the fridge as store bought vegan cheese, for obvious reasons

[@killuaxkillua2384]

As a vegan I love vegan cheese but it’s true it doesn’t melt as easy :) just is what it is

[@leoh5405]

“a grater variety”

[@omegamcbride]

Misha Foods has solved this problem

[@sentienthemp8375]

Idk if this is true, but I heard that cheese aged more than 60 days tends to have little to no lactose because of the aging process. Might be worth looking into if you struggle with dairy! •~•

[@AliferousAngels]

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