I love brunost. It's like caramel cheese candy!

But, yes, I can see how it would burn spectacularly...

I love brunost. It's like caramel cheese candy!

Ptooie. (Of course, I can't abide regular goat or sheep cheeses, either. Can't stand the smell or taste of either. So it stands to reason that carmelizing and intensifying the flavor of goat cheese would only make it more disgusting to me.)(More for you!)

If brunost has goat milk in it, it should be labeled geitost (Norwegian for "goat cheese") or gjetost (the old Danish/Norwegian spelling). I've had Ekte Gjetost, a pure goat brunost, and the flavor is significantly sharp. Ski Queen Gjetost is a blend of goat and cow milk. It's much more candy-like, but I expect you still wouldn't like it.

I doubt that anyone is importing cow-only brunost. But if some were available, you might find it a bit more palatable. It's basically dulce le leche with cream added back to it. Now if you don't like dulce le leche, you're out of luck.

Yepper. I think if there were a cow-only version, it might not set my ick sensors off. But any goat cheese or sheep cheese does it to me. I can only handle one that I've ever tried (manchego), and then only if it's been long-aged.

(And I adore dulce de leche. :-) Living in Spain...was tasty.)

Edited at 2013-01-24 02:28 am (UTC)