- Who's the big cheese
of the vegan cheese?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Yes, now being a vegan can be tough
because even though you know
you're doing something great
for animals and the environment,
you start to miss things that you once had
like flavor and friends.
- And cheese.
But actually there are a
growing number of vegan cheeses
on the market and today,
we're gonna determine which is the best.
It's time for These Vegan
Cheeses Ain't From No Teats
But Which Are Trash and Which Are Treats?
I just said teats.
(Rhett chuckles)
Today we're gonna be trying
some of the most popular
vegan cheeses on the market
and ranking them on this board.
- Yes, we have six ranking spots.
They are Meunster-osity.
Man-cheg no way!
It could brie better.
It tastes Gouda.
I'm quite fond-ue of it,
and my favorite,
mozza-hell-yeah, huh huh ho!
- Mozza-hell-yeah.
Mozza-hell-yeah.
- Yeah.
- Mozza-hell-yeah cheese.
All right the vegan cheeses
we're gonna be eating are
from Violife.
- Daiya.
- Tofutti.
- Field Roast.
- Follow Your Heart.
- And Miyoko's.
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- All right first up we have
just like smoked provolone sliced cheese
from Violent Life.
(Rhett chuckles)
So.
- So they're really leaning in.
I think we should try just
straight up cheese first.
- Oh, okay.
It is sliced just like cheese would be.
- Yeah, you know, it's
a little on the nose.
It's just like smoked provolone.
- [Link] It tears like provolone.
- It smells like smoked provolone.
- It's a little yellower
than I think provolone is but...
Ugh.
- What do you mean ugh?
You don't like smoked
flavored stuff, right?
Is that what you're responding to?
- I think that's, yeah.
So I get over the smoke
'cause I now remember oh yeah,
it is smoked.
- As someone who does enjoy
smoked flavored cheese,
I wouldn't know this wasn't cheese.
- I wouldn't know it's not cheese either.
I'm pretty impressed.
- I think I gotta try it on a cracker.
- I think the smoke really helps.
You know what I'm saying?
- Mm-hmm.
It hides the fakery?
- Mm-hmm, but again,
if you like smoked, this
is right up your alley
and it's gonna start off
pretty high just because
on the cracker it's even more convincing.
- That's really good, that's
just like smoked provolone.
- I mean I would even start
right here at number two.
- I am quite fon-due of it, yeah.
Why not?
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- Okay, now we've got
Daiya's cheddar style shreds
which I have to admit, I have these
in my refrigerator right
now, this exact package.
I talked about it on Ear
Biscuits, I'm a fan of this.
It's also the cheapest option.
- Mm.
- It only comes out to 67 cents per ounce.
- You don't have to open it now.
- Oh 'cause it's already been opened.
- Got it right over here.
- Now before you taste it, I will say--
- Shredded--
- It's a little shocking
to eat straight.
That's what I've found.
It's got sort of a punch.
- This one-star review says,
this tastes like the sadness
of surrender to a lifestyle
that you don't truly want.
- I think the real taste
of the Daiya cheese is that
you gotta put it on something.
- Mm.
- 'Cause that's,
it's not good by itself.
- It's almost--
- I put it in a scramble.
- There's a bit of a sour--
- Is typically what I do.
- Sourness to it.
- It has a good melt factor which is tough
with vegan cheese a lot of times
so let's try the quesadilla.
- All right.
- Like, that's a big improvement for me.
- It's amazing how when
melted, it's wonderful.
But if you eat it just I'll
call that raw, just shredded,
it's not good.
- Even if you smell it,
I recommend not ever smelling it.
You know?
- It can't beat the smoked provolone.
- I hate to say it, it's not better
than the smoked provolone but it's good.
- If you're gonna melt something--
- It's Gouda.
- It's fabulous.
- It tastes Gouda but
it's actually cheddar.
Don't get confused because this is a pun
on the word good.
This cheese is actually cheddar.
We're putting it in this
place but it's not Gouda,
it's cheddar but it taste good
which means it tastes Gouda.
- And it's not called di-ya
It's called day-a.
- Right.
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- Next up we have Tofutti
which, right there.
That's a strike.
- Yeah I was gonna say
exactly the same thing.
- You hear the word toe.
Better, Tofutti better than cream trees.
Better than cream cheese, that's--
- That's a second strike.
- Well, unless it's true.
- You can't make
that kinda claim.
You're not trying to be better,
you're just trying to be good enough.
- Hey listen--
- Just face it, okay.
'Cause you're starting with the original.
You can't be better than the original.
- There's no scent.
So we're a little grumpy about this.
- I didn't think, I didn't like Tofutti
not because it had the word toe in it,
because it just sounds like you're trying
to get cute with it.
- It also has the word foot in it.
Toe and foot.
This is gonna taste like feet.
- It's also got tea in it.
- Now we went straight
for the bagel this time.
- Yeah because only a crazy
person would eat straight up
cream cheese out of a can.
- Not a lot of flavor, y'all.
- I can safely say, Tofutti,
this is not better than cream cheese
and you should have never
gone out on that limb.
- You nailed the consistency.
- You fell out of that tree
and then were run over by a large vehicle.
- It looks exactly like cream cheese
and acts exactly like cream cheese.
It doesn't taste bad.
It just doesn't taste.
- It tastes like an epoxy.
Like you might have gotten
this out of the hardware store.
- I love bland tastes,
so you know for me--
- You know me and my--
- I'm actually, I went from hating this
to kinda starting to like it.
- I dislike it strongly,
actually, you know what,
it's worse than that.
I'm indifferent to it.
I don't even care for it.
It's like it doesn't even exist.
- [Link] It sounds like
we're in the five range then.
- Man-chego no way, okay.
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Next we have Chao slices.
This is the creamy original flavor.
So right off the bat, there's a few things
that need to be noted by this.
They're not trying to be
another type of cheese.
It doesn't say just like some
other cheese that you know.
It just says original, original to what?
Original to us, Chao, from Field Roast?
- [Link] It's made in Greece.
That helps me.
- How does that help you?
- It just seems, it seems
like they should be making,
they make real cheese over
there, Grecian cheese.
They can make the fake stuff too.
- I feel like the word Field
Roast really throws me off
when I'm thinking about
vegan cheese though.
If I go to a field roast,
which I'll be honest with you,
I don't know what it is.
If I go to one though, I'm not expecting
to get vegan cheese, I'm expecting there
to be a large animal on the
pit in the middle of the field,
roasting.
- It smells kinda like American cheese.
It's very mild.
- Now there's no smoky flavor in this so,
what are you thinking about
the rest of the cheesiness?
- I think it's pretty frickin' great.
- It is pretty good.
- I mean and the fact
that they didn't tell you
what it was imitating--
- You don't know.
- It's its own thing,
it's actually just, okay,
this is just cheese.
- You're like in a cheese limbo.
You're in a cheese fog.
This puts you in a cheese fog.
- And within that fog, boy am I happy.
Whoa, I can't see anything.
- What kinda cheese is it, I don't know.
- Put some cheese in my mouth.
- It's very original.
I'm in a field roasting.
Let's try it on a cracker.
- It would have fooled me.
- That'd be good on a grilled cheese.
- [Link] Mm-hmm.
- I think that because I
like the smoked cheese,
I like smoked cheese a little bit better
but I'm willing to put this at number one
because it is really that good.
- Yeah and I've moved
that down just because
I'm getting more angry with it even though
we're no longer even talking about it.
- Right.
- Yeah, so,
I think we're shoving this stuff down.
- We don't have to shove it down.
No you wanna leave, oh,
you don't wanna go mozza-hell-yeah yet?
- No, I wanna hold out hope
and we got two more to go.
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Next up is the Follow Your
Heart shredded Parmesan cheese.
It's one of their best sellers.
- Now I can smell it,
which you want to smell a Parmesan cheese.
Like Parmesan has a pungency
to it which is actually
the thing that most people
who like Parmesan like, right?
And it's got that right off the bat,
it's hitting me in the nose.
- It's got the, that high, sourish...
I'm gonna say a powdery smell
but not that it smells like powder.
I just feel like powder's
going in my nose.
- Hmm, wow.
You know what it doesn't have?
- It does have bite.
- But it doesn't have the
slight nastiness that you get
from the Daiya.
- I know what you're saying.
- You know what I'm talking about?
- Definitely.
- [Rhett] Let's try it on some pasta.
- It's the type of sour that you want.
It's not quite as, crunchy's not the word,
but stuff as a normal Parm.
- [Rhett] That too a bit of
a left turn for me on this.
It's not really working.
- It's interesting,
it did get worse when
you put it on the pasta.
- And I don't think it's bad pasta.
- Mm-mm.
- Is this bad pasta?
- [Josh] Yeah, it's gluten-free.
- Oh it is?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- All right.
- All right that does help.
- We gotta re-adjust
my moral food compass.
- We got some bad pasta.
- It's the pasta that's bad.
You need that gluten.
- I'm noticing that
it's not as good as it is just straight up
because it's so pungent.
I'm noticing it's actually too pungent.
- You noticing that?
- I noticing.
- Well if you noticing that,
where you wanna put it on the board?
I will say that my entire sort
of vegan cheese orientation
is being challenged.
- Yeah.
- Because I was all into
Daiya and I feel like
this is better than Daiya.
- Here's the thing, Daiya melts--
- But that quesadilla was so good.
- Right, it was so good and--
- This pasta's bad.
- And Parmesan, you don't wanna melt it.
You just wanna scatter it
over the top.
- You just wanna scatter,
yeah.
- And it didn't get better.
- No.
- So it is lower.
- It got worse when it was scattered.
- But bring on one more.
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- And finally we have
Miyoko's cheese spread.
This is the classic chive flavor
and this is the most
expensive cheese in the bunch
at $1.53 per ounce.
- Woo, almost 10 bucks
for six and a half ounces.
- Now it's advertising itself
as cream cheese, right?
Well, no it's not, it's
just a wheel of cheese.
It's just a cheese wheel.
I mean we've taken that wheel of cheese
and forced it into a bowl.
- But there is one reviewer
that said with one star,
it's cream cheese for people
who don't remember cream cheese.
- Well that--
- Let's forget cream cheese.
- I believe that's a big
part of kinda transitioning
to vegan products is you
can't try to compare them
to the original thing.
- [Link] So let's just eat
it and see if we like it as--
- [Rhett] And definitely
don't do it side by side.
- [Link] Chivey cheese.
Hmm.
- It had a cat food quality
to it at the very beginning.
- Yes, it tasted like cat food.
Let me eat some more.
- And this is coming from
dudes who have cat food so--
- And sometimes like it.
- Yeah.
True.
- Why does it taste like cat food?
- Maybe a pretzel will change that.
- It's so--
- It's got a tuna
flavor to it.
- Lemony.
It's like very lemony tuna.
- Are they trying to make it feel like,
taste like cat food?
Is there a connection between like--
- None of the information--
- Vegans and cat people
that I don't know about?
- Made with cashews, coconut oil, chives,
organic rice miso.
Why would anything make
it taste like tuna?
- [Josh] I don't know, your
mouth is a mystery to me.
- Put that on a t-shirt.
- Then I can go up, if
you're wearing the shirt,
I can go up to you and
say let's change that.
(Rhett laughs)
(Josh laughs)
- Yeah, you know what.
Let's not put that on t-shirt.
- This is not great.
- Pretzels really take
it up a few notches.
- That's just because it covers it up.
They're already throwing chives in there
to help cover up whatever
bad thing is happening.
- That is just not good, guys, I'm sorry.
I wanted to like this.
- This has gotta move down here.
- It's better than Tofutti.
Tofutti is dead to me.
- There's just nothing to it.
- Right, yeah.
- So let's start to shift
everything up because that is
at number five.
Di-ya, Daiya moves over.
Parmesan moves over.
- It really comes down to these two.
Again, I will say that as a mimicry
of smoked provolone cheese,
this is actually revolutionary,
but this isn't trying to mimic anything.
This is just trying to be Chao.
- And Chao it is.
We must say Chao at this point.
Before we do, we wanna congratulate Chao
for being the best vegan cheese out there.
Doesn't Chao mean bye?
- Yeah, and hello.
- Chao.
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