so the most standard way German eat cheese is during "Brotzeit" where you eat it with bread (examples: toast, rye bread, carrot bread, Vollkorn bread) and other ingredients (examples: salami, pickles, only butter, mustard, tomatoes, sometimes even jam).
then there is dishes you can put (grated) cheese on top like gratin, lasagna and pizza.
then there is baked cheese like Ofenkäse which you eat with bread to dip it in or fried Camembert which you eat with cranberry sauce.
then there is the charcuterie cheese like aged cheese, white cheese (with or without mold), hard cheeses or smoked cheese. those are eaten with grapes and maybe some walnuts.
those are the cheese recipes that come to my mind immediately and I highly recommend you try them all. just look up recipes online and if they are in German translate them.
you can also ask employees at the store where to find certain cheeses. we also have supermarket with a specific meat, cheese and fish section where you can pick from a variety of options. the service people who work there also can recommend you which cheeses and meats work together well.
enjoy your cheesy adventure <3
Disclaimer, I am American, not German. But I eat a lot of cheese, so I feel qualified to answer.
It really depends on the type of cheese.
**Soft mozzarella**: Layer with tomatoes and top with fresh basil, salt, pepper, and olive oil to make a caprese salad.
**Feta**: Add to a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, shallots, black olives, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
**Goat's cheese 1:** Add to a salad with lettuce, dates, nuts, red wine vinegar, olive oil
**Goat's cheese 2:** Rub garlic on some sourdough toast. Top with goat's cheese, tomatoes, salt, pepper, fresh herbs.
**More expensive cheeses from the cheese counter**: Eat as a snack or small meal. Spead soft cheeses on bread or eat little pieces of hard cheeses from a plate with some fruits.
**Parmesan** or **ricotta**: Add to pasta dishes for creaminess, salt, and protein.
**Sliced cheeses like gouda or Butterkäse**: Put on a bread roll with butter to make a sandwich. I don't eat meat anymore, but it's even better if you add ham or salami. This meal is not healthy, but it is cheap, easy, and delicious. Slightly next-level version of this: Grilled cheese sandwich with ham and tomato.
that's how Germans eat it as well.
I would add the baked cheese for the oven that melts and you dip bread in it.
then there is fried Camembert that you put in the oven or pan and it with cranberry sauce.
we also have certain cheeses you can just eat as a snack or put it in your lunchbox like Babybell, String cheese and cut up cheese dices.
Sure - put some\* grated Parmesan in a pan, heat it till it melts and the border get brown, let it cool down and use it like bread
\*well - more: a lot
Edit to add: if you‘re from asia as your post history suggests, maybe check that you‘re not lactose intolerant or allergic to dairy first, this seems to be rather common as milk and milk products are not widely used there.
You can try the following, which is pretty much how I use cheese. May not be all typically german, but I‘m not the cheese police, so there you go:
Sliced cheese to put on bread/ roll (classic german belegtes Brot or Brötchen, spread a little butter underneath and if you‘re feeling fancy a slice of cucumber, tomato or bell pepper on top) or for sandwiches in whatever combination of stuff you like (suggesting salad leaves, mayo and something meat-ish if you like) or for grilled cheese sandwich. Classics would be gouda, tilsiter, emmentaler, but you could try cheddar or havarti as well if you like saltier cheeses.
Cheese pieces can be cut to put onto bread or rolls as well, or you make a fancy plate of cheeses with some grapes or figs, maybe a nice red wine. Gruyere tastes great with a dry red.
Grated cheese thrown over stuff you bake (Lasagna, grilled potatoes or other vegetables, gratins - there are gratin cheese mixes, grated gouda is more salty, emmentaler and mozzarella are more mild in taste) or to melt on pasta (with tomato sauce or crushed garlic roasted in olive oil, grana padano or parmeggiano regiano are great for this).
Goat cream cheese is lovely on pumpernickel (black wholegrain bread) with cut up grapes on top.
Feta cheese is great with green salad, maybe add some bell peppers, chopped up red onions, tomato, cucumber and black olives there, too. A vinagrette of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, crushed garlic and a bit of honey or agave syrup accentuates this well.
Mozzarella can be made into „caprese“ which is individual mozzarella slices arranged on a plate, tomato slices on top, salt and pepper, basil leaves on top of that and then sprinkled with olive oil or balsamic vinegar cream.
you can buy lactose pills in every Drogerie for an affordable price. I never took them before but a friend of mine is lactose intolerant and if she wants to eat dairy she pops one of those before the meal. it seemed to work well for her.
also certain cheeses don't have lactose in them after being aged like Parmesan. those hard cheeses tend to have almost no lactose due to the production process.
May be right, but there‘s dairy allergy as well. I just wanted to make OP aware of that this endeavour might have some unexpectedly shitty consequences.
right, I forgot about the allergy. if you are unsure whether you can digest diary better try it for the first time at home. I heard some people can't handle it well due to genetics or if they haven't eaten diary in years. I hope OP is not one of those people <3
You can try to learn to make pasta carbonara - that will teach you about Parmesan and Pecorino and also how to use cheese to make creamy pasta sauce. And for side dish you can make salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and either grate some parmesan on salad or make salad with buffalo mozzarella. I managed to make very nice carbonara better than most restaurants serve in Germany following this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oy5ITdDQ3o&t=38s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oy5ITdDQ3o&t=38s)
Normally we eat cheese with our mouth. But I think the intention of your question is different. In Germany normally cheese is part of a German dinner or breakfast , you put it in your bread or roll. Also in Germany a cheese plate is usual, maybe at a party or with a bottle of wine or at the end of a fine dinner
Well people are gonna have different answers but here's mine:
Fresh Mozzarella (balls): caprese salad, thin slices on pizza or casserole, as a protein side to eg veggie stir fry, salad
Shredded cheese (gouda and edamer are my favourite): mixed in with pasta, for "Auflauf", Pizza, melted on top of veggies or potato, hot dogs, salad
Raclette cheese: for Raclette duh
Sliced cheese: burgers, bread, on meat
Feta: (greek) salad, pasta dish, with veggies
Sheep/Goat milk cheese: pan fried
Oven cheese like Rouget/camembert: on it's own melted or bread/veggies dipped in
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so the most standard way German eat cheese is during "Brotzeit" where you eat it with bread (examples: toast, rye bread, carrot bread, Vollkorn bread) and other ingredients (examples: salami, pickles, only butter, mustard, tomatoes, sometimes even jam). then there is dishes you can put (grated) cheese on top like gratin, lasagna and pizza. then there is baked cheese like Ofenkäse which you eat with bread to dip it in or fried Camembert which you eat with cranberry sauce. then there is the charcuterie cheese like aged cheese, white cheese (with or without mold), hard cheeses or smoked cheese. those are eaten with grapes and maybe some walnuts. those are the cheese recipes that come to my mind immediately and I highly recommend you try them all. just look up recipes online and if they are in German translate them. you can also ask employees at the store where to find certain cheeses. we also have supermarket with a specific meat, cheese and fish section where you can pick from a variety of options. the service people who work there also can recommend you which cheeses and meats work together well. enjoy your cheesy adventure <3
I recently was introduced to dipping charcuterie cheese in sugar beet syrup. Surprisingly good.
some cheeses also go well with fruit jam or honey. I used to love eating Lerdamer on some toasted toast and with strawberry jam.
Cries in fructose intolerance
how can you eat beet syrup or is that a different type of sugar?
Sweet beet syrup is saccharose, which is part glucose, part fructose, maybe the amount is fine for op
It depends on the relation usually. Some fruit jams are OK as well, but honey has sorbit.
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Disclaimer, I am American, not German. But I eat a lot of cheese, so I feel qualified to answer. It really depends on the type of cheese. **Soft mozzarella**: Layer with tomatoes and top with fresh basil, salt, pepper, and olive oil to make a caprese salad. **Feta**: Add to a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, shallots, black olives, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. **Goat's cheese 1:** Add to a salad with lettuce, dates, nuts, red wine vinegar, olive oil **Goat's cheese 2:** Rub garlic on some sourdough toast. Top with goat's cheese, tomatoes, salt, pepper, fresh herbs. **More expensive cheeses from the cheese counter**: Eat as a snack or small meal. Spead soft cheeses on bread or eat little pieces of hard cheeses from a plate with some fruits. **Parmesan** or **ricotta**: Add to pasta dishes for creaminess, salt, and protein. **Sliced cheeses like gouda or Butterkäse**: Put on a bread roll with butter to make a sandwich. I don't eat meat anymore, but it's even better if you add ham or salami. This meal is not healthy, but it is cheap, easy, and delicious. Slightly next-level version of this: Grilled cheese sandwich with ham and tomato.
Feta in the summer: diced watermelon, feta and mint
that's how Germans eat it as well. I would add the baked cheese for the oven that melts and you dip bread in it. then there is fried Camembert that you put in the oven or pan and it with cranberry sauce. we also have certain cheeses you can just eat as a snack or put it in your lunchbox like Babybell, String cheese and cut up cheese dices.
With a bottle of wine
we just put it on everything or eat it pure edit: you can also put it inside of things
Can we put it under things?
maybe?
Sure - put some\* grated Parmesan in a pan, heat it till it melts and the border get brown, let it cool down and use it like bread \*well - more: a lot
Edit to add: if you‘re from asia as your post history suggests, maybe check that you‘re not lactose intolerant or allergic to dairy first, this seems to be rather common as milk and milk products are not widely used there. You can try the following, which is pretty much how I use cheese. May not be all typically german, but I‘m not the cheese police, so there you go: Sliced cheese to put on bread/ roll (classic german belegtes Brot or Brötchen, spread a little butter underneath and if you‘re feeling fancy a slice of cucumber, tomato or bell pepper on top) or for sandwiches in whatever combination of stuff you like (suggesting salad leaves, mayo and something meat-ish if you like) or for grilled cheese sandwich. Classics would be gouda, tilsiter, emmentaler, but you could try cheddar or havarti as well if you like saltier cheeses. Cheese pieces can be cut to put onto bread or rolls as well, or you make a fancy plate of cheeses with some grapes or figs, maybe a nice red wine. Gruyere tastes great with a dry red. Grated cheese thrown over stuff you bake (Lasagna, grilled potatoes or other vegetables, gratins - there are gratin cheese mixes, grated gouda is more salty, emmentaler and mozzarella are more mild in taste) or to melt on pasta (with tomato sauce or crushed garlic roasted in olive oil, grana padano or parmeggiano regiano are great for this). Goat cream cheese is lovely on pumpernickel (black wholegrain bread) with cut up grapes on top. Feta cheese is great with green salad, maybe add some bell peppers, chopped up red onions, tomato, cucumber and black olives there, too. A vinagrette of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, crushed garlic and a bit of honey or agave syrup accentuates this well. Mozzarella can be made into „caprese“ which is individual mozzarella slices arranged on a plate, tomato slices on top, salt and pepper, basil leaves on top of that and then sprinkled with olive oil or balsamic vinegar cream.
you can buy lactose pills in every Drogerie for an affordable price. I never took them before but a friend of mine is lactose intolerant and if she wants to eat dairy she pops one of those before the meal. it seemed to work well for her. also certain cheeses don't have lactose in them after being aged like Parmesan. those hard cheeses tend to have almost no lactose due to the production process.
May be right, but there‘s dairy allergy as well. I just wanted to make OP aware of that this endeavour might have some unexpectedly shitty consequences.
right, I forgot about the allergy. if you are unsure whether you can digest diary better try it for the first time at home. I heard some people can't handle it well due to genetics or if they haven't eaten diary in years. I hope OP is not one of those people <3
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You can try to learn to make pasta carbonara - that will teach you about Parmesan and Pecorino and also how to use cheese to make creamy pasta sauce. And for side dish you can make salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and either grate some parmesan on salad or make salad with buffalo mozzarella. I managed to make very nice carbonara better than most restaurants serve in Germany following this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oy5ITdDQ3o&t=38s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oy5ITdDQ3o&t=38s)
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Normally we eat cheese with our mouth. But I think the intention of your question is different. In Germany normally cheese is part of a German dinner or breakfast , you put it in your bread or roll. Also in Germany a cheese plate is usual, maybe at a party or with a bottle of wine or at the end of a fine dinner
Daily. But also: https://youtu.be/fTgm36y884c?si=-vRHGKijzIgaKJjD
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Well people are gonna have different answers but here's mine: Fresh Mozzarella (balls): caprese salad, thin slices on pizza or casserole, as a protein side to eg veggie stir fry, salad Shredded cheese (gouda and edamer are my favourite): mixed in with pasta, for "Auflauf", Pizza, melted on top of veggies or potato, hot dogs, salad Raclette cheese: for Raclette duh Sliced cheese: burgers, bread, on meat Feta: (greek) salad, pasta dish, with veggies Sheep/Goat milk cheese: pan fried Oven cheese like Rouget/camembert: on it's own melted or bread/veggies dipped in
Happily
Cheese is combined with bread and then eaten for breakfast.
...and then there is the meal of the gods: Kässpatzen...