how real cheese we buy in American supermakets and deli?!
Is Italian, Swiss, Austria cheese made in these counties and sold there taste better?
Is it true that the way to check it out is to leave a piece for a few days, the real one will grow fungus, the other one will go hard and dry.
Answers:
If it says it was made in a certain country, it was. Swiss cheese might be labelled that way but if you check the fine print, it might say Made in USA., because swiss cheese is a type of cheese and the name doesn't necessarily have anything to do with where it was made. Its real name is emmenthaler. So check the back of the package. Sometimes country names are used as brand names on the front of the package. Yes, cheeses made in their country of origin, the place where they were invented, are usually better than the "knock-offs" or the domestic version. They're also usually a lot more expensive. A notable exception is American and Canadian cheddar, which is as good as anyone's. I don't know of any cheese called Italian, unless it's one of those shredded mixes made for pizza.
Leaving a piece of cheese out for a few days and having it dry up or get mouldy proves nothing. Most of them will dry up, unless they were very wet to begin with and the atmosphere is humid. All you will do is ruin a perfectly good piece of cheese.
In most major grocery stores they are not actually from those country. There are some, but they are quite expensive. most of the time it will say something like "france" on a brie, but it is most likely made in the US/canada. look for the actual manufacturer label on the package somewhere. A popular one around here is Saputo, which used to have a factory in the US, but it burned down and now it's in Canada
They aren't fake cheeses though. Just not actually produced in the country of origin. Well some might be, like those pub cheeses, or that rondele/allouette spread stuff. As far as testing them, you could try that, but depending on what type of cheese it is it won't grow mold anyway. Like aged gouda or parm probably won't. It will just get stale and dry up.
you can also ask the departement who orders the cheese where they are from. They should know.
used to be a cheese specialist at a grocery store.
The stuff sold in supermarkets probably come from dairies not terribly far away. As for the cheese food crap, don't buy that, either. It's complete crap, not healthy. The real cheese will go hard as well.