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Why Did My Baked Camembert Go Wrong?
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I've baked camembert a number of times, usually with a few sprigs of rosemary and liberal slivers of garlic.
I normally get the camembert from this fabulous cheese stall in Chichester market but recently I picked up some cheap stuff from Tesco. I figured it would work the same as I'm baking it but it didn't behave in the same way!
Instead of it going all gooey and delicious, it went sort of...plasticcy. A little bit like an overcooked souffle. I did everything the same but it was almost inedible.
What do you guys think the problem was? Someone suggested it may be because the cheap one was made with pasturised milk but I'm thinking that it might simply be a case of you get what you pay for. The camembert from Chichester market was mature, ripe and fragrant whilst the Tesco one was young, hard and had no flavour.
Any theories?
I normally get the camembert from this fabulous cheese stall in Chichester market but recently I picked up some cheap stuff from Tesco. I figured it would work the same as I'm baking it but it didn't behave in the same way!
Instead of it going all gooey and delicious, it went sort of...plasticcy. A little bit like an overcooked souffle. I did everything the same but it was almost inedible.
What do you guys think the problem was? Someone suggested it may be because the cheap one was made with pasturised milk but I'm thinking that it might simply be a case of you get what you pay for. The camembert from Chichester market was mature, ripe and fragrant whilst the Tesco one was young, hard and had no flavour.
Any theories?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.merciasounds, I'm not a huge fan of Tesco, I don't buy an awful lot there but I can't write them off completely. Their finest range of sausages are excellent as is their own brand of peanut butter (and I'm a peanut butter aficionado)
craft1948, Tesco do sell some good camembert, this particular one was their own brand, very cheapest one (£1.30ish) I don't know if you've tried that?
anneasquith, would over-cooking it result in the strange, plasticcy/scrambled egg texture do you think?
craft1948, Tesco do sell some good camembert, this particular one was their own brand, very cheapest one (£1.30ish) I don't know if you've tried that?
anneasquith, would over-cooking it result in the strange, plasticcy/scrambled egg texture do you think?
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