Cheddar cheese powder revisited

[smokininthegarden]

Hi everyone.
Well, over the weekend I got a chance to experiment with this cheese powder a little bit.
I tried to keep this as fair as I could, so what I did was make a batch of my standard
bratwurst recipe that I use all the time. I then divided it in half, to one half I mixed in the
appropriate amount of the cheese powder, to the second half I mixed in some regular, not high melt, xtra sharp cheddar cheese that I diced by hand. I then stuffed them into hog casings
and cooked them. Here is a photo of the two meat pastes side by side.

And the finished product.

They are both very good. The cheese powder version has a very cheesy flavor but is lacking the little pockets of soft creamy cheese that the real cheese version brings to the table.

I guess it comes down to personal preference and or the fact that the powder is about twice the price of real cheese.

Hope this helps, Cal

 

[motocrash]

I too have been playing with Hoosier Farm white cheddar powder,but not in meat.Sprinkled on popcorn,mixed in butter and put on broccoli,tater etc.

I then divided it in half, to one half I mixed in the
appropriate amount of the cheese powder, to the second half I mixed in some regular, not high melt, xtra sharp cheddar cheese that I diced by hand.

I'm curious as to the appropriate amount for meat,please do tell.

 

[smokininthegarden]

I motocrash, the rule of thumb for adding fresh cheese to sausage is about 1# cheese to 10# sausage.
I like a really cheesy sausage so I usually double that, the manufacturer of the cheese powder says it takes
3# of cheese to make 2# of powder so about 30% by weight less for the powder. Just my way of looking at it
somebody else may have an entirely different view.

I also found a few different uses for the powder, take a corn tortilla chip and dip it into the powder, shake off the
excess and it tastes just like a dorito. There are many ways to use it, a nice cheese dip comes to mind.

Cal

 

[motocrash]

Makes sense to me.
What brand powder are you using?