Where to buy Cheddar cheese

That's the one, ta!

I learn something new every day: Truckle

I too learnt that word today.

But what did you learn yesterday?

That I'm an idiot.
But we digress.
Which stand at the Vik Markt? The big cheese one perhaps?
I've not been happy with any cheddar that I've bought in Germany yet.

Well whaddaya know. They have it in the Edeka right by my office. Just tried it and whaddaya know.. it ain't bad!

OK, it aint the best, but certainly better than all the orange rubbery cheddars you get in the supermarkets. Thanks for the tip!

I've got 5 blocks in the fridge, I want to ensure the Edeka / Real keep stocking it :-), I would never recommend it for a cheese board, but then again I've still not found a good enough cheddar around here for a cheese board. It is certainly good enough to cook / make sandwiches with though... Not to mention a nice cheese on toast (once you get over the instructions on the back of the block for making cheese on toast nibbles)

Gräfelfing has a great cheese shop if you're ever over in this direction, the cheddar is quite strong.
Couldn't tell you the price, seems expensive though that may be cos I buy such a big lump of it.

I always buy it at the Galeria Kaufhof grocery store on Rotkreuzplatz (U1 stop). Not so hard to find!

You can get that Irish Land stuff at V-markt in Haidhausen as well

Organic chain Bio Corner has now just started to sell organic Red Leicester cheese on their loose cheese counters. And very nice it is too.

The HIT supermarket has some wedges of dark orange cheddar with red wax casing. It was not behind the cheese counter, but it was with the other chunks of cheeses that are plastic wrapped. I did not buy any because the price was too high for me, but may be worth a try.

www.hit.de

I saw some in Tengelman yesterday, but it was Irish Cheddar which was an orange cheese. It didn't look at all like the cheddar I'm used to (light yellow colour) and didn't look like it would taste the same either..

I've tried that cheddar from Hit, it tasted like plastic too, IMO.

My husband bought a slice of cheddar cheese for me last night at the HIT. I think he got it at the cheese counter--it was wrapped in plastic wrap and then the paper from the cheese counter, but wasn't like a sealed package as in the pictures in this thread. I opened it today and it looks like there is a little bit of mold on one corner. Can I just cut that piece off an eat the rest or do I need to toss the whole thing? V. annoying as its not our usual grocery store so returning it would be a hassle.

mould on cheese in normal. if it is just a little, scrape it off and enjoy the rest.

Yep. Or even just eat the mould too. I once sat with a weird french bloke eating revolting looking bits of goats cheese that had been, well, rotting away in oak leaves for weeks or something. Delicious.

(at risk of being attacked by all the cheddar experts )

I always buy cheddar from Marktkauf. It is not covered in red wax. It tastes just like the cheddar we get in South Africa.
Yummy and also cheaper than the Galeria cheddar.

The Irish Land cheddar can now be found is Kaufhof at Marienplatz. And it isn't bad at all.

Kaufland has some nice blond cheddar, I grated some and sprinkled it on my zucchini in garlic butter - fantastic.

Never mind cheddar in Munich - I searched KaDeWe food hall in Berlin Saturday, and though they seemed to have every cheese from every land (Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?), they did not have any Wensleydale!

What kind of poxy little shop is that, huh?

What you need is a Cheese Shop!

Why does it have to be Chedder? Theres loads of other great cheese about have an adventure try some other one.

Piece of cheese Grommit!!

maybe a TT cheese and wine party/picknik.

I agree with Melrose re the cheddar cheese from Marktkauf. It has to be cheddar as I don't eat any other cheese

In Hertie in Hauptbahnhof they sell cathedral cheddar pre packed or behind the cheese counter. Also yummies like kettle chips!

Many of my fav recipes call for American and/or a good sharp English cheddar. The only thing I found was Irish cheddar, which is too bland for my recipes. Any ideas?

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Cheddar cheese, where to buy it in Munich

This might not suit your needs, but for mexican or most of my recipes that specifically call for cheddar (quiches, etc), I find substituting is really ok. I usually use a pre-shredded 'mixed cheese' bag from Lidl that is 34% cheddar, 63% 'schnittkase' (whatever that is!). Works great, AND it's packaged as 'light', with only 17% fat. Whether 17% is good or bad, to be honest, I have no idea, but I'd assume it's light-er than most other cheese.

Brand: Linessa (blue bag)
Name of cheese: light Gratin-Kaese gerieben

It's the only shredded, mixed cheese they sell that has some cheddar in it. You can't miss it.

That crap is Edam and Gouda and should be avoided as it's shit. Even Edeka is now stocking an "Irish Cheddar" which is passable for most cheddar needs.

woof.

If you have access to Metro, they have a large selection of cheeses which include Cheddar and Blue Stilton amongst many others.

This 'Irish' packaged supermarket cheddar is in fact German. Just look at the little oval mark on the back (which every dairy product manufactured in the EU has to have by law and which gives details of which dairy produced it) and it says De.

Doesn't matter as long as it tastes good. Not all Cornish pasties are made in Cornwall, doesn't stop them tasting good. Cheddar cheese doesn't always come from Cheddar either.

You're right. The one from Plus is actually quite tasty.

Are any of these 'cheddar cheeses' mentioned shredded?

I've tried buying the blocks of irish cheddar and self-shredding, but it is usually too creamy and difficult to work with. Dont try to un-convince me, I've tried multiple times. Plus, I'm lazy and LIKE pre-shredded bags.

So, anyone know of shredded cheddar that's available? I'm happy with my Lidl bag, but am open to new options.

My favourite cheesy anecdote. I worked for a whole year packing cheese in a dairy in the UK. Shit job (as you can imagine) but it bridged a gap at the time.
The 20kg blocks of cheese were taken from a palet of 50, put through a cutting machine, packaged and labelled. At the other end of the line, boxed and palleted again. If the order stipulated that Tesco, for example, needed 200kg of Caerphilly, 200kg of Cheshire, and 100kg of Wendsledale, they took the lot from the same pallet so amazingly, when you stand at your local Tescos contemplating which crumbly white you should buy, it doesn't matter 'cos they're all the same cheese. Also, grated mozerella was infact just very very young cheddar.

My favorite cheese anecdote comes from my grandparents. They were driving through a small town in Oregon some years ago and felt the urge for a picnic. They stopped at the one store in town to buy some cheese and bread and went to the "cheese counter." They asked the young lady behind the counter what kinds of cheese they had for sale. The classic answer? "Oh, we have BOTH kinds of cheese-- white AND yellow."

Never seen shredded cheddar, Kaufland sell it fairly thinly sliced, but that's probably not much use to you, good for sandwiches though!

Stores here will in fact refuse to grate your cheddar, as it clogs up their machines. Freeze it a bit at home and then grate it, works fine. Also a good method of very thinly slicing a raw steak.

Kaufland (in Erding) sells Cathedral City,

Kaufhof sells the 15 month old Cathedral city as well as the normal one.

JIH

Hi to all,
I work for a delicatessen Wholesaler here in munich and we supply Irish Cheddar Cheese to various Edeka and AEZ stores in and around Muinich.
It goes under the name IRISH LAND. We are always interested in new Products so if anyone has a Product suggestion just PM me
Cheers
Spider78

Landsmanns on barerstr does a nice bio cheddar but leave me some fer me cheese on toast

Karstadt at Muenchner Freiheit do blocks of Cathedral City - 9 month & extra matured.

REAL (used to be Walmart) sells it. We get it all the time.

My girls love American cheddar and we use to eat it alot back in the US. So when we moved to Munich I went on a mission to find some. Found some at REWE market. I buy the cheddar blocks from the fine / finer cheese section. I grate it at home and store in a tupperware container. Not cheap - example 3.86 euros for .194 kg. Also found there shredded cheddar cheese packs from the Irish company Kerrygold - like the butter. But they are hard to find in stock. So when I do find them - which was a few moths ago I buy a bunch.

Metro sell grated cheddar since about a year now

Metro have been selling grated cheddar for about a year now.

Verfluchte Muppets! The word "seit" does not normally translate 1:1 to "since". Oh, and Edeka have a passable, slightly sharp cheddar in 8oz/200g blocks.

woof.

Baby Bel now produce a cheddar. Quite tasty too and perfick for snacks. Not much good for cheese on toast, though. or for grating.

Hey Verfluchte Dog, shouldn't that be "has" and not "have"?

Not in British and "International" English. Who are you trying to impress with your recent spate of twattishness?

woof.

Hi, new here and just over the border in Switzerland (Flumserberg to be precise). I'm looking to expand my British Cheese operation into Germany and Austria, from the comments above there does seem to be a demand for it. We sell via our web shop but also at events and cheese tasting evenings. We only sell proper farmhouse cheeses (most of the dairies I have visited) nothing is "plastic" factory cheese.

Any comments welcomed, nearest big cities to us are Stuttgart and Munich, if anyone knows any good farmers markets in the south we will try to visit them

Mike
cheeseclub.ch

Hi Big Cheese

But at about 8 Euros per 200g pack its a bit steep in price, and I am a cheese lover ...

MG