{"id":1711,"date":"2018-10-15T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:25:20","slug":"grand-european-pasteurized-processed-gruyerere-cheese-product-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2018\/10\/grand-european-pasteurized-processed-gruyerere-cheese-product-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand European Pasteurized Processed Gruyer\u00e8re Cheese Product – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found this item today at Grocery Outlet San Leandro, while looking for actual Gruy\u00e8re cheese for a recipe.\u00a0 Normally, I would stay away from anything that calls itself a “cheese product,” but nothing in the ingredient list seemed scary (though it does contain sodium phosphates, emulsifying salts and sorbic acid) so I figured, why not?<\/p>\n

It was a great choice. This cheese tastes *just* like Laughing Cow cheese, but it’s more solid.\u00a0 You can cut it into slices and have it melt on your burgers.\u00a0 \u00a0As other processed cheeses, it melts beautifully.\u00a0 It’s also damned tasty to eat by itself – and I’m thinking of including it on my Christmas Eve dinner cheese plate.<\/p>\n

It turns out that processed cheeses can last a long time because they have preservatives added.\u00a0 Plus they are fattier.\u00a0 Amazingly, a lot of the cheeses we know – such as Mozarella, Cheddar, Brie, Camembert and Swiss – are processed cheeses<\/a>.\u00a0 Who knew?<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, I haven’t been able to find any references to this cheese in the internet.\u00a0 Grand European is a trademark<\/a> of Pacific Cheese Co.<\/a>, located in Hayward (next door to San Leandro), which distributes it.\u00a0 Costco sells a Havarti<\/a> and a Gouda<\/a> with the same label.\u00a0 This Gruyere cheese products says it’s made in Germany.<\/p>\n

My fear is that this cheese will be difficult to find – cheeses at Grocery Outlet come and go.\u00a0 Fortunately, it’s very cheap ($2.20 for about 7 oz) and it will last until March next year.<\/p>\n

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I found this item today at Grocery Outlet San Leandro, while looking for actual Gruy\u00e8re cheese for a recipe.\u00a0 Normally, I would stay away from anything that calls itself a “cheese product,” but nothing in the ingredient list seemed scary (though it does contain sodium phosphates, emulsifying salts and sorbic acid) so I figured, why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[391,390,392],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheese","tag-gruyere","tag-pacific-cheese-co","tag-processed-cheese","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}