Grate Your Own Cheese For Nachos—Here's Why

When you make nachos, grating your own cheese rather than using store-bought shreds is extremely important—Andrew Rea (AKA Babish) demonstrates why.




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[FrancisBurns]

I wish I could Andrew, but they do not sell blocks of cheese at my local grocery store in my country of residence. Only pre-grated stuff.

[quinn]

I worked stocking shelves at a grocery store for like 6 years and the amount of people that didn't know about these "anti-caking" agents was staggeringly high. So often people would look at the pack of shredded cheese and say it was moldy because of the powdery surface.

[harrydavid]

I only buy shredded mozzarella because in the UK it's hard to get low moisture mozzarella (we refer to it as grated, but shredded sounds way cooler)

[Yenrei]

ofc if you're willing to sacrifice final quality for convenience, use grated cheese. but when quality matters or the starch would ruin the recipe, don't cut corners

[DarkaHollow]

ok dumb question but....can you like....wash it? rinse some of the start out?

[m.r.jarrell]

The anticaking stuff (usually a starch like potato) is not on my big list of ingredients to avoid. The fungicide is (natamycin). Not needed!

[soflokicks]

Should’ve used all one cheese for the pre shredded, the blend of 2 cheeses is always going to look like that

[bribnkr]

You can find pre shredded parm without the anti caking agents

[ttijana]

I will splurge for block cheese when I have money where I live shredded is cheaper so that's what I buy. Can be picky about flavor when companies don't want to pay you a living wage.

[moniques]

Thanks for explaining why I never bought that. Was always something offff wit it.

[sarasorensen]

I could say the same for cinnamon sugar. Make your own!

[robby]

why does this dude look like a bald version of ryan reynolds

[illagevidiot]

NGL minus the oil the pre shredded looks way better. Looks gooey and stringy. The block cheddar looks like it was cooked in a microwave.

[DeadbeatGamer]

can the cheese be rinsed in ice cold water and then melted?

[Mangoboi]

My brother! Babish, i hope you know shredded cheese is for the fiends who go to the fridgerator at 3am

[Not_Evil_]

Glad cheese in europe isn’t dusty lmao

[lexxnataliatan]

He looked like the bold and heavily bearded Ryan Raynolds

[veridico]

In my country, you get grated cheese, and its not coated in anything.

[fuzzythoughts]

It's also like $20 for a small block of cheese these days, like, enough to last a couple days. It's ridiculous.

[seanrice]

Well I mean if you're melting the cheese on your nachos do you really want it all to be one giant mass of cheese? Pre-shredded wouldn't stick all together.