How many cheeses are reasonable in a dish? When is it obviously just showing off?

[Aunt Carol]

I like cheese same as anyone, but anyone who could distinguish the individual cheeses in 6-cheese pizza is probably not the kind of person who's eating 6-cheese pizza.

I'm not sure I could tell 3-cheese macaroni and cheese from 4-cheese, honestly. At some point they just have to be padding the cheese total for marketing purposes.

 

[Chadikus Maximus]

Cheese is the white mans food you can't have to much of it unless you are a Nigger

 

[Aunt Carol]

Cheese is the white mans food you can't have to much of it unless you are a Nigger

I meant more the cheese diversity, not total cheese quantity.

4-cheese pizza, instead of double-cheese pizza.

That's actually another question: is three the universal beginning number for cheese bragging? I don't believe I've ever seen "2-cheese macaroni" at a store or in a menu. And what is the highest number of cheeses known to be in a commercially available dish?

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Maybe, but a minimum of three cheese seems elementary for several plates:

Lasagna: Ricotta, Mozza & Parm or romano.
Pizza: Mozza, provolone & Cheddar

If you tried to make these using only two cheeses or less, you must be from Iowa.

 

[Chadikus Maximus]

I meant more the cheese diversity, not total cheese quantity.

4-cheese pizza, instead of double-cheese pizza.

That's actually another question: is three the universal beginning number for cheese bragging? I don't believe I've ever seen "2-cheese macaroni" at a store or in a menu. And what is the highest number of cheeses known to be in a commercially available dish?

2 types or 3 if done properly beyond that you start muddling the tastes blending them in to an indistinct mess like putting to much spices in a dish resulting in a dish just tasting like nothing in particular

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Does Colby-Jack count as one or two cheeses.

 

[Sperghetti]

Maybe, but a minimum of three cheese seems elementary for several plates:

Lasagna: Ricotta, Mozza & Parm or romano.

Considering this, I propose that the rule is:

If the standard cheese diversity of the dish is ≤2, then we can specify the amount of total cheeses if the cheese diversity >2.​

If the standard cheese diversity of the dish is >2, then we can specify the amount of total cheeses once it passes beyond that standard.​

So if you add a cheese to the aforementioned lasagna, it is now 4-cheese lasagna.

 

[Jason Wynn]

No such thing as too much cheese. Anyone who claims otherwise can’t be trusted.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

it cant hurt can it?

 

[Aunt Carol]

No such thing as too much cheese. Anyone who claims otherwise can’t be trusted.

Again, the question isn't about whether the cheese layers in your lasagna should be a cumulative two inches.

The question is: must anyone labor to construct a 102-cheese pizza? (archive) How many simultaneous cheeses can the human mind and tongue perceive?


And if you do successfully perceive all 102 cheeses, what's the SAN loss for that, 1d8?

 

[Dysnomia]

Three cheese stuff seems well liked enough. Six is way overboard though. You also need to pair the cheeses well so you can make out each one. Using several cheeses that don't have a lot of difference seems a waste. Just use more of one cheese then.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

multiple cheeses are only for use when shredded multiple sliced cheese is just being a dick
While to me it depends on the chosen dish a mossarelah & palmisan mix is a good combination of melt, stretch,brown & bite.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Think of lasagna; ricotta, mozerella, and parmesan all stand out. So it just depends on if they blend in together to an indistinguishable cheesiness, or if they actually stand on their own.