How things have changed in recent years with many new plant based cheese companies appearing on a regular basis. However, pb cheese is one of those foods that is very difficult to duplicate (especially farmhouse & artisan type) especially when it comes to both soft and hard cheeses.
As James Beard Award winner Rebecca Flint Marx writes in the Guardian, part of the problem is that cheese just isn’t as easy to mimic as other dairy products: “t is a product whose flavors and functions can differ wildly from one form to the next, and are shaped by constantly shifting variables such as fermentation, room temperature, enzyme ratio, microbial activity and the aging process. How to replicate that kind of nuance... is a question that has preoccupied many producers in this fast-growing market.”
As James Beard Award winner Rebecca Flint Marx writes in the Guardian, part of the problem is that cheese just isn’t as easy to mimic as other dairy products: “t is a product whose flavors and functions can differ wildly from one form to the next, and are shaped by constantly shifting variables such as fermentation, room temperature, enzyme ratio, microbial activity and the aging process. How to replicate that kind of nuance... is a question that has preoccupied many producers in this fast-growing market.”