Say cheese

[simont]

Is it just me, or does cheese taste noticeably better when you have previously grated part of the block and are now eating the part with the grated-from surface?

My guess is that (if I'm not just imagining it) it's a surface-area thing. If so, I wonder if there's a market for weird specialist cheese knives that leave a highly uneven surface every time they cut.

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

If I were going to test it, I'd dye the cheese different colours (with tasteless odourless dye) and try each colour in both plain and wiggly, announcing it as a trial of the effects of the colouring. Or just use different varieties, and downplay the effect of the cutting, though this would probably need a bigger sample :)

In another respect, if one is trying to sell specially rough knives, it doesn't matter if the effect is placebo or not.

[firefliesinjune.livejournal.com]

Couldn't you just blindfold yourself so you don't know what kind of cheese you're getting? :)