My experience with Huntsman at the wine and cheese shop where I work is that Huntsman is a great introduction to blue cheeses for people who don't like blue cheeses. Our policy is to let customers try samples of cheeses and decide for themselves what they like and want to buy. We do have customers with sophisticated palates who prefer the better cheeses. We also have customers (and staff like me) who didn't start with a
If you want to get people hooked on bleu cheese, give it to them with a pear. That is one of those great flavour combinations.
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Quite so. As is the quality of the "double Gloucester." They are both very young, salty and unaged [censored]; together they form an affinity of sorts for each other. It ends up being a cute little salty palate
teaser,
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but it is neither Stilton nor Double Gloucester, both of which properly aged are delicious cheeses, full of character and flavor. Go find a
good
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piece of each, and learn what you are experiencing, which is the
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of the characteristics of an excellent set of cheeses to a cheap commercial fraud.
My experience with Huntsman at the wine and cheese shop where I work is that Huntsman is a great introduction to blue cheeses for people who don't like blue cheeses. Our policy is to let customers try samples of cheeses and decide for themselves what they like and want to buy. We do have customers with sophisticated palates who prefer the better cheeses. We also have customers (and staff like me) who didn't start with a great knowledge of flavors and flavor pairings but who are getting there. A fair number of customers want something that looks great on cheese platter. For them, there is Huntsman. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The blue flavor isn't overwhelming, and the cheese is visually appealing with those nice stripes. If they want to graduate to a variety of blue cheeses, we carry a good selection.
Exactly. You don't pass Huntsman off as "Stilton," it is a different cheese in its own right. My problem was that this thread was assuming the Huntsman to be a Stilton & Double Gloucester in flavor, which you know it isn't. But it does look good on a cheese platter, doesn't it?
