Stinky Cheese

Hootanany

What's the best I like Epposoise myself but had a taste of Stinking Bishop yesterday.

Any suggestions please.;)

Dizzyblonde

I'm new to stinky cheese and haven't tasted many but I love Stilton, especially with brown bread and a bowl of leek & potato soup. Now that I've tried it I want to try other stinky cheeses.

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Merkin

Mmmmmmm Cheese is like food porn for me Yes, Epoisses is pretty strong. Easy to find ones are Gorgonzola, Camembert, Munster and then blue cheeses like Stilton as well can be pretty stinky. You might also like to try brie that's made from raw milk, you can get it in Superquinn and it's like a moving mass of goo from some kind of Sci-Fi movie...nyum! Your fridge will properly stink though! One of my favourite shops in the World is Sheridan's Cheesemongers in Dublin - they're so generous about letting you try various nibbles before you buy. Fallon & Byrne have quite a good selection as well. I love to have cheeses like this on freshly baked bread with nice juicy santini tomatoes and a sprinkle of coarse sea salt.

shrapnel222

try pont l'eveque, reblochon, livarot... I personally hate them but my wife absolutely adores them.

Minder

Vacherin Mont D'or - If you are lucky enough to get your hands on one, try this.

Cut a garlic clove in half and smear over the top of the Vacherin Mont D'Or. Make half a dozen holes into the skin of the cheese and dribble some white wine into the holes. Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven or until the top feels soft to the touch and the cheese underneath is bubbly and melted. Eat with lots of crusty warm bread, a few green olives, some cornichons and lots of crisp white wine.

Merkin

Minder wrote: »

Vacherin Mont D'or - If you are lucky enough to get your hands on one, try this.

Cut a garlic clove in half and smear over the top of the Vacherin Mont D'Or. Make half a dozen holes into the skin of the cheese and dribble some white wine into the holes. Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven or until the top feels soft to the touch and the cheese underneath is bubbly and melted. Eat with lots of crusty warm bread, a few green olives, some cornichons and lots of crisp white wine.

Oh dear Lord that sounds absolutely orgasmic!

Hootanany

Minder wrote: »

Vacherin Mont D'or - If you are lucky enough to get your hands on one, try this.

Cut a garlic clove in half and smear over the top of the Vacherin Mont D'Or. Make half a dozen holes into the skin of the cheese and dribble some white wine into the holes. Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven or until the top feels soft to the touch and the cheese underneath is bubbly and melted. Eat with lots of crusty warm bread, a few green olives, some cornichons and lots of crisp white wine.

Where would one get this cheese.

Aglomerado

Hootanany wrote: »

What's the best I like Epposoise myself but had a taste of Stinking Bishop yesterday.

Any suggestions please.;)

Talleggio is nice, if you can cope with the pong off the rind! Once you can get past that it's tasty.
Dying to try Stinking Bishop, for the name alone! Can it be got in Ireland?

Hootanany

Aglomerado wrote: »

Talleggio is nice, if you can cope with the pong off the rind! Once you can get past that it's tasty.
Dying to try Stinking Bishop, for the name alone! Can it be got in Ireland?

Fallon & Bryne have it at the moment.

foodaholic

Avoca in Rathcoole have it in their cheese room

Teyla Emmagan

A good ripe Munster has to be the smelliest ever surely?

Hootanany

Dates with Epposoise is Sublime.

Mrs Fox

I'm quite jealous of you lot to be honest, as I'd love to love seriously stinky cheese, but I don't. Even the likes of Stilton - I can have it in soups or dips, but as cheese alone the texture puts me off. However I do love goats cheese to bits.
I've had one of them cheese boards from the carts with serios selections, but I've always maintained safe and do not dare to go to the dark (stinky) side.
Is there such thing as a cheese tasting class that I can perhaps try and learn?

foodaholic

A good cheese shop will let you taste before you buy - I've often spent a good hour choosing cheeses , and come out of the shop stuffed !

anewme

Having a nice glass of red here with St. Felicien (which I got in the Superquinn French Food Sale)..........it is runny, smelly and yummy(with French bread dipped into it)

gosuckonalemon

Merkin wrote: »

Mmmmmmm Cheese is like food porn for me Yes, Epoisses is pretty strong. Easy to find ones are Gorgonzola, Camembert, Munster and then blue cheeses like Stilton as well can be pretty stinky. You might also like to try brie that's made from raw milk, you can get it in Superquinn and it's like a moving mass of goo from some kind of Sci-Fi movie...nyum! Your fridge will properly stink though! One of my favourite shops in the World is Sheridan's Cheesemongers in Dublin - they're so generous about letting you try various nibbles before you buy. Fallon & Byrne have quite a good selection as well. I love to have cheeses like this on freshly baked bread with nice juicy santini tomatoes and a sprinkle of coarse sea salt.

Camembert and Brie are not "stinky" cheeses

Darkginger

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

Camembert and Brie are not "stinky" cheeses

I beg to differ - when they're ripe, and made from unpasteurised milk, they are extremely smelly One small piece of ripe Brie in my shopping stinks out the whole car on the way home. Nice stink, though. To the OP - have you tried Ardrahan? I like it

Hootanany

Darkginger wrote: »

I beg to differ - when they're ripe, and made from unpasteurised milk, they are extremely smelly One small piece of ripe Brie in my shopping stinks out the whole car on the way home. Nice stink, though. To the OP - have you tried Ardrahan? I like it

Where can that be got.;)

Merkin

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

Camembert and Brie are not "stinky" cheeses

Obviously not the type you've been purchasing then. Both of these cheeses nearly reach radioactive levels such is their pong when mature.

Where are you based OP? If you can get to Sheridans Cheesemongers and ask them about stinky cheeses. Otherwise, Superquinn is a good bet and have extensive ranges, including your stinky "mainstream" ones....

Darkginger

I get Ardrahan in my local Supervalu - they usually have a good selection of pongy cheese

lounakin

The smelliest cheese I've ever gotten (I'm french and my entire family is passionate about cheese... just to give you some level of smelly background)... smellier than Epoisses, ripe camembert, vacherin etc... is Banon. It's goat, and it stinks like a Gorilla's cage
Very tasty though, and I don't know if you can get the actual article unless you travel to the area where it's from.

donalh087

I think it's hard to beat a good Milleens. Smelling of ditches, damp cellars and herby grass, with just slight undertones of underpants. Sublime.