Stinky Cheese Anyone?

[Katherine]

..... limburger & onion sandwiches are also quite a tasty combo.

Yeah..... Boy, do I miss Liederkranz.

Liederkranz and liverwurst on pumpernickel... sob.

[nyfirepatrolchef]

A good Alsatian Muenster. Double Wrapped and in a plastic container, it still managed to stink up my fridge. But man was it good with some crusty bread and a Trimbach Riesling

oooooooooooh yeeeeeeeeeah!~~~~

we had that at macy*s GOD was that stuff GOOD...thanks for jarring the memory chip!~

[mesmerize138]

Stinkiest cheese I've ever had was called (not kidding here) Stinking Bishop. Best tasting feet I've ever had. Mmmmm-hmmmmm...

[Fresser]

Stilton makes me turn cartwheels. Try Stilton on top of a potato pancake, then put the lil' bugger under the toaster-oven.

[jackal10]

Fromage Forte

Liptauer (not really stinky, but strong)

Glad someone mentioned Esrom - now almost unobtainable in the UK

Edited April 29, 2004 by jackal10 (log)

[hjshorter]

I was once at a wine tasting where Morbier was served. You could see everyone eying their neighbor, wondering if the other person had forgotten the deodorant that morning.

For some reason Raclette always seems the stinkiest to me It's delicious melted and served with thinly shaved dried beef and tiny boiled potatoes.

Edited April 29, 2004 by hjshorter (log)

[cheftoad]

We served Morbier in my restaurant for a while - people on the tables close to the pantry complained about the smell on a few occasions.

My favorite - St. Agur. We call it Queso de Pies in the kitchen.

[Peter B Wolf]

Three week old "Harzer"

[CompassRose]

Mennonite cook cheese. It's like a whole potful of stinky runny "inside bits".

[andiesenji]

I love the Wisconsin brick cheese which is difficult to find outside that state.

I order it from an online purveyor. The FexEx guy who delivers to my office has complained that it stinks up his truck and he alters his route to come to my office first so that it won't be in his truck duing the hottest part of the day.

[andiesenji]

Here is a note about brick cheese

http://www.ulster.net/~psycho/brick.html

(note they describe it as "slightly aromatic" that increases with age)

and the source

http://www.widmerscheese.com/catlist.cfm?passid=WV

[aliwaks]

Cowgirl Creamery Osprey or Red Hawk....heaven.. I brought some home from SF last year much to the dismay of my fellow airline passengers it hit it's peak of ripeness somewhere over the middlepart of the country, but oh god was it worth it!!!

[TJHarris]

I would have to add as favorite Stinky Cheeses, a tie, Shropshire Blue and Humbolt Fogg.

[lleechef]

Surprised noone has mentioned Maroilles which smells like something long ago dead but tastes delicious, and the Boulette d'Avesnes which smells AND tastes like something dead. The Boulette is aged on straw and washed with beer. Both from the North of France.

[balmagowry]

Humboldt Fog isn't really that stinky - just tastes as though it ought to be. I think I still have to put Stinking Bishop at the top of my list. Though I've just spent a couple of days absorbing a nicely fragrant hunk of St. Albray....

EDIT to add: Taleggio Taleggio Taleggio Taleggio!

EDIT AGAIN to add: every once in a while I hear a rumor that someone preserved a little of the true Liederkranz culture from before the big fire, and has taken it to Australia, there to get it back into production.... It's too obscure to be an Urban Legend, thinks I, so though the years roll by and nothing happens I still can't help hoping against hope that it may be true....

Edited May 3, 2004 by balmagowry (log)

[TJHarris]

Humboldt Fog isn't really that stinky - just tastes as though it ought to be.

My standard for stinky may be off center a little. Stinky: Defn- any cheese that my wife finds to be offensive when found unsuspectedly in that little foil wrapper behind the gallon of milk.

[cherrypi]

The Stinking Bishop gets my vote. Wow, what a....powerful......smell.....

[wnissen]

Thought this would be an appropriate place to post on an incident with a stinky cheese. We had our three-year-old wedding cake in the fridge thawing, so we could try a piece and throw it out. Unfortunately, we had left the flowers on it originally, and they spoiled, even in the freezer. So the leftover smell from the flowers permeated the fridge. Or so we thought. It turned out that the rather pungent off aroma was coming from a wheel of Cowgirl Creamery Red Hawk. I bagged it, and this morning, the smell was much improved. My wife, not meaning to make a joke, said:

"Man, the fridge smells a lot better without the Red Hawk flyin' free!"

Walt

[AzRaeL]

Raclette but i'm not sure if it's stinky enuff to qualify

[Busboy]

Once bought something called, "vieux Lille" in Paris. The only cheese I've ever had that was too strong for me.

from a website:

" La croûte se transforme peu à peu en champ de fermentation et se couvre d'une pellicule visqueuse, grise ou gris-rosée, responsable de la très forte odeur putride, caractéristique du fromage. "

[wnissen]

I think that's the most eerie, disgusting thing I've ever read about food. My French isn't that great, but a translation might be: "The crust is transformed little by little in the area of fermentation, and is covered with a viscous skin, grey or grey-pink, responsible for the very strong putrid odor, characteristic of the cheese." Wow, I feel a little queasy just writing that.

Walt