hi temp cheese

[bigtimeelectric]

Last year I put this in my sausage and it turned out perfect. this year I put it in and it will not melt. it ruined the sausage cause its designed to be melted throughout, individually it is bitter. anyway I think what happened is I had this cheese in my beer fridge over the holidays and someone shoved it in the freezer probably so they could put more leftovers in there. g d don't you guys hate that beer fridge is for beer and pop and occasionally sausage making supplies, not leftover potato salad.......does anybody believe freezing this cheese would affect it this way?

[prov1900]

If it dried out from being frozen, then yes. And yes, beer fridges are for beer. Anything else is a disgrace to our sport

[picksbigwagon]

I don't feel that freezing would effect it that much. Was it a low fat version of the orginal cheese from last year? Low fat cheese just doesn't melt like regular cheese does.

[reinhard1]

freezing was not the issue. not knowing if your beer fridge was working properly and how long you have had the cheese i cant tell you exactly, but hi temp freezes just fine if wrapped properly or vacume sealed. it is used in many commercial sausage products and sold frozen. good luck.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I always freeze cheeses when I'm not going to use them right away and have never had an issue with anything not melting.

[thirdeye]

I've never tried using high temp cheese, but noticed that the ones I did see mentioned 400° melting temps.... So, if you cook your sausage to 170° are the chunks of cheese warm and chewey... like chocolate chips are in cookies?

Johnsonville has some cheese brats, and if they are not grilled slowly they can spew that cheese out of a pinhole or a split.... I'm guessing that is NOT a high temp cheese?