Weird question, but let me explain: I’m lactose intolerant (and also planning on going full vegan in the future) and I actually get physically nauseous when I smell or taste most dairy products. As a result, I can’t even stand lactose free dairy because of what I assume is a Pavlovian effect, and overall I just don’t like it. Is there by any chance a vegan “cheese” that melts and spreads like cheese but doesn’t actually taste like dairy?

  • DessalinesA
    5·
    4 years ago

    The extremely quick substitute I use, that can have cheese like consistency but doesn’t really taste like it, is olive oil and nutritional yeast, mixed to whatever consistency you like.

  • GreyLinux
    4·
    4 years ago

    personally I don’t think any of them taste like dairy , they taste like a cheesy imitation like how wosits (if you live in UK) or cheetoes taste (US )(both are cheesy flavour crisps if you live outside both these areas ) I believe the majority of companies use nutritional yeast to create the imitation cheesiness and to simulate the fat content found in actually cheese they use coconut or similar nut oils /products . But as far as it smelling like dairy it doesn’t even have a whiff of milk about it .

  • oscar
    3·
    4 years ago

    To be honest before going vegan I was never a big fan of cheese. I liked the basic mozzarella and cheddar but that was about it. Many vegan cheeses smell overly cheesy in my opinion. I really struggled with vegan cheeses but there are a few that are a lot more subtle. In the UK with have Violife which I think is fairly subtle compared to most other vegan cheeses. They do spreadable cheese and meltable cheese. I can’t say much for products outside the UK.

  • ghost_laptop
    2·
    4 years ago

    IMO potato cheese doesn’t smell or taste like cheese, it only has the consistency but it tastes potato and any other thing you put it in. When I did it I used powdered onion and garlic with some other species.