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Iamnutok is the only cheese substitute I’d eat nowadays. I’ve been buying them for a couple of years and not got tired of them. The Paprika, Smoky or Pepper varieties are great. I use them with pickle, onion and rolls/beigals. Not tried cooking or grilling them.
Shandoom-
Great to hear you like it so much!
Just one point, which I consider important--I don't think the cashew cheeses are a ...
cheese substitute
... but actually cheese. I think all the derisory remarks about the 'substitutes' are conceptually correct in that all this unfermented, artificially flavoured, etc. stuff, even if tasty, just isn't cheese as such. However, I think that cashew cheeses actually are cheeses. Someone might still consider this kind of cheese a substitute for another kind of cheese, but I don't think they're substitutes (of another kind) for cheese as such.
I think extending the concept of cheese to the analogues is stretching it too far, but including nut cheeses to me is a valid way of extending it.
Oliver Schick
I used not to like Sheese when I first came across it, but they've changed and improved it a lot. Obviously, it may not be your thing if you're not into the (now largely) coconut oil-based analogues, but of those I think it's currently the best. I don't normally buy them very often, but to keep myself amused during the lockdown I've been trying out a few.
I generally like all the cream Sheeses, and of the solid varieties I thought the mature cheddar, red onion, and Gouda ones were the best I tried. The Gouda analogue is *very* smellycheesy; if you don't like smellycheesy smells in your fridge, don't get it. I don't know how dairy Gouda tastes any more, but I enjoyed the Sheese in some soups I made, like onion soup.
I still massively prefer cashew cheeses, which to my mind are actually cheeses and not analogues. Incidentally, I AM NUT OK! have quite a few reduced products (by 50p):
https://www.iamnutok.com/shop
Still pricey, but it's all lovely. The 'Oh, Grate!' 'parmesan' is delicious; not really like parmesan, just better.