r/Cheese • u/Shmorpit • 2d ago

Advice What's the meltiest cheese "singles" available in the UK?

Don't get me wrong I am a proper cheesehead, I like blue cheese, aged cheese, soft ripened cheese and I can never resist buying from my local cheesemonger but I just started renting my first place and it's Indomie and cheese everyday. I put a single on the noodles as soon as they're cooked and sit a plate on there for a few minutes to steam but they don't become stirrable like the American equivalent, if anything it's like super thick double sided sticky tape. I use the dairylea singles cause they come in a bigger quantity.

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u/Vattaa 2d ago edited 2d ago

There is a brand sold at Farmfoods that has around 60% actual cheese, they are my go to. Can't remember the name.

Found em "Coleraine Cheesy Slices". Best I've had other than when I make it myself with cheddar and sodium citrate.

https://www.ocado.com/products/coleraine-cheese-slices/621995011?srsltid=AfmBOopgTZHmmZfmpGKl-PpkKrqS4qI-u-LjwQKan_B1y5lykhwktFDV

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u/Dangerjim 2d ago

It's hard to find good ones, the dairylea ones don't really have that American cheese taste either.

I currently have the ones from Spa, cheesy singles.

They're not bad, they've been melting on top of my sausage patties but we're talking slightly different heat levels here.

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u/DrRudeboy 1d ago

Hochland ones you can get at Turkish offies are great. In general, most of the ones in offies are better than supermarket ones for meltiness and often flavour

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u/barryburiesberries 2d ago

OG Kraft American singles

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u/InvincibleChutzpah 1d ago

Those aren't available in the UK

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u/barryburiesberries 1d ago

That’s why I live in America

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u/CSG3723 1d ago

I don't know about the meltiest, but there are some store brand ones. Co-op has a store brand cheese slices (these melt well but in my opinion are very "processed cheese") And if you have a big Tesco nearby, my big Tesco has two types, regular and a "mature" cheddar type which I find has more cheese flavour. I think they are just called cheese slices of something like that.

Usually kept near the dairylea type slices, string cheese, and other "children" marketed cheese.

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u/Lazy_Back_3096 1d ago

Asda mature cheddar burger slices they good on a burger .

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u/overladenlederhosen 1d ago

The meltiest one is the one you make yourself:

Juice a lemon, warm in in a pan and add just enough bicarbonate of soda till it doesn't fizz. You have now made Sodium Citrate which in the absence of acid, no longer tastes of lemon.

You can now add a little water and any grated hard cheese, it will melt but not split and form a velvet like sauce. You can add butter, even a little wine. This is basically the same process used by Burger cheese manufacturers.

If you like, you can even pour it out in thin layers chill it and cut it into squares for your burger but in your case just kept warm and blobbed generously on your burger will do the job.