What Makes Stinky Cheese, Well, Stinky, and Why You Should Try It

Food & Wine ^ | March 2, 2025 | Merlyn Miller

[Fireone]

It is outstanding!

[nwrep]

Greatest ever cheese skit in the history of humanity.

[mmichaels1970]

If you’re ever in Ashland Ohio, visit Grandpa’s Cheesebarn. I recommend the Espresso Cheese and Carolina Reaper.

[bigbob]

https://chaletcheese.com/

[Bob434]

Lol- who cut da cheeze?

[Charles Martel]

Maximizing the surface area and the aroma. Possibly the durian of cheeses.

Sounds like it would pair well with a glass of Malört.

[hoagy62]

When I worked in food service, I had an executive chef that told me that danish blue cheese was the absolute best blue cheese she’d ever had. I don’t really like blue cheese because of the smell and it’s taste. However, because she said it was so good, I decided to try some for myself.

I’ll just say that it was the WORST thing I’ve ever put my mouth. I couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for 20 minutes.

[FamiliarFace]

Ooooh ooh, that do smell pungent!

[Getready]

Sursstromming and linburger kim-chee, with Vegemite on a pimento embedded loaf of whole grain bread. Yum....just kidding...

[rellic]

“You Don’t Eat It With Your Nose”
Most of your sense of taste comes from your nose;

[Songcraft]

We'll have to modify the old phrase "GIGO" (Garbage In, Garbage Out) to "SISO" (Stinky In, Stinky Out).

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

From the article:

And this young monk went to his boss and said... ‘Hey, boss. Come here…’ And the boss said, ‘Dude, you made it. You taste it.’ -- (Did Medieval monks actually talk this way?)

A pungent poem from a Pun-Gent:

Behold, the Farmer in the Dell-i
With the dirty socks so smelly--
Never mind, he's making cheese.
Camembert, Goat and Bries.
(But who wants rancid milk in their belli?)




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[vpintheak]

Yep. And it’s absolutely why I can’t stand any kind of goat cheese. It smells likes goats. And goats smell horrible.

[Salamander]

Colby, Jack, mozzarella on pizza.

Hold the maggots please.

[sasquatch]

Met some friends in Switzerland for skiing over New Year’s one year. Steve’s girlfriend was European (don’t remember from where) who loved cheese. She ripped a monster while on the gondola packed like sardines halfway up the mountain.
Far worse than a fart in church.

[Bob434]

Lol! She sounds like someone a relative of mine would like- - he rips them anytime anywhere- he seems to ,ove to rip them when in a car- so there we were in the middle of winter, below zero weather, windows wide open 😆 🤣

[Bob434]

Yeah but so tasty, but certainly an acquired taste

[SunkenCiv]

Gruyere? It’s more like a slightly sharper version of swiss cheese, with a more sturdy texture, better flavor, and it’s great stuff. I’ve only been munching it for a couple of years, and tend now to get it from regular stores rather than the imported slabs from the warehouse clubs, which tend to be almost as stiff as parm reg, and not as flavorful.

Sidebar, asiago was in vogue until gouda suddenly caught fire — my favorite gouda since the early 1980s has been leiden, which is gouda with cumin — and while I like it, I can no longer get the big-assed chunks of asiago at the warehouses (much cheaper that way).

One store in the nearby Big City carries something called “cave aged gruyere”, and of course there’s a smoked gruyere, just as there are smoked provolone, smoked gouda, smoked you-name-it. I’m glad sriracha didn’t catch on with cheese, btw.

Of the stinky cheeses, my hands-down fave is Fontinella (that’s not Fontina, no no no). I’ll nibble that, the taste is fab, and a surprise compared with the smell. The aftertaste is durable and it keeps me thinking about the next bite.

I’m thinking about getting lipo. ;^)

[Omnivore-Dan]

My father used to love limburger. No way I could eat that stuff. He told me about a wedding way back in the 1930’s when he and a friend smeared limburger all over the exhaust manifold of the groom’s car. I would have loved to witness that one.

[rightwingcrazy]

I’ve wondered about the very first person to eat one of those foul-smelling cheeses. What was he thinking?