@RusA For making vegan cheese at home, most recipes use some combination of tofu and almond butter, with seasonings like nutritional yeast and lemon juice. Here's [links removed] an overview from Martha Stewart.
Commercial vegan cheese is usually some combination of soy products, oils, thickeners, and flavorings. A typical one from Whole Foods is made from: Water, vegetable oil, tofu, soy protein, carrageenan (gelatin made from seaweed), maltodextrin, apple cider vinegar, corn starch, calcium phosphate, potato flakes, sea salt, guar gum, potassium phosphate, non-dairy lactic acid, adipic acid, soy lecithin, natural colors. Sounds like a typical recipe for that artificial stuff you can buy in the supermarket that has to be labeled "cheese food" because it actually contains very little cheese.
I might try some of these out of curiosity, but rather than trying to have an artificial "plant-based" product that "tastes like the real thing", I'd rather have the all-natural real thing that's just made from milk, rennet, flavorings, and maybe a little cave mold for that extra je ne sais quoi .
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@RusA For making vegan cheese at home, most recipes use some combination of tofu and almond butter, with seasonings like nutritional yeast and lemon juice. Here's [links removed] an overview from Martha Stewart.
Commercial vegan cheese is usually some combination of soy products, oils, thickeners, and flavorings. A typical one from Whole Foods is made from: Water, vegetable oil, tofu, soy protein, carrageenan (gelatin made from seaweed), maltodextrin, apple cider vinegar, corn starch, calcium phosphate, potato flakes, sea salt, guar gum, potassium phosphate, non-dairy lactic acid, adipic acid, soy lecithin, natural colors. Sounds like a typical recipe for that artificial stuff you can buy in the supermarket that has to be labeled "cheese food" because it actually contains very little cheese.
I might try some of these out of curiosity, but rather than trying to have an artificial "plant-based" product that "tastes like the real thing", I'd rather have the all-natural real thing that's just made from milk, rennet, flavorings, and maybe a little cave mold for that extra je ne sais quoi .