Crystal Farms Shredded Pizza Cheese (8 oz.)

Item Purchased: Crystal Farms Shredded Pizza Cheese (8 oz.)
Location Purchased: Jewel / 1224 S. Wabash Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $2.99 + tax

Review: I couldn't decide whether I wanted a cheddar omelette or a monterey jack omelette, so I decided to compromise and make a best-of-both-worlds omelette.

Unless I'm buying gourmet cheese, I don't really pay much attention to what I am buying, so this purchase was really a seat of the pants one. I saw a low-priced, pre-shredded, orange and white cheese and I threw it in my little basket before heading to the check out.

The cheese itself is actually pretty good. I always make it a point to try my cheese by itself before putting it into any of my food. That's exactly what I did with this cheese. Shoveling a pinchful of cheese shreds into my mouth, I noticed a slight bite to the flavor and also a slight sweetness (The ad copy on the website isn't just a cute little creation. There is some merit to it!).

How does it cook? Well, first off, this cheese actually melts when you heat it, not like some brands and styles of cheese (coughvelveetacoughamerica'schoicecough). The sweetness either disappears or is overshadowed by the other flavors you cook with, but the bite remains. That is how a cheese should be in my mind. The more bite the better. Though not ultra-sharp, Crystal Farms' pizza cheese gets my late-night-snack approval!

Rating: 3.5 / 5