Maybe you take a splash of cream or milk with your coffee but in Sweden they do dairy differently by adding cheese directly to their java.
Yes, Cheese. This isn’t just part of your morning McMuffin chased with coffee, instead it’s a process where the cheese is added DIRECTLY to coffee.
It’s something called Kaffeost (cheese coffee) which is a combination of hot coffee and a particular type of cheese called leipäjuusto, which loosely translates to “bread cheese”.
The cheese apparently has an absorbent quality, which allows it to take on a surprising amount of coffee flavor after soaking for only a few minutes. Leipäjuusto is much sweeter than your average cheddar, so adding a few pieces to your cup of coffee is surprisingly similar to adding cream, or milk to it.
Is it refreshing or disgusting?
In Scandinavia, the popularity of kaffeost is on the rise. Specialty coffee shops are increasingly offering kaffeost, along with variations that use cow’s milk or goat’s milk cheese, alongside the traditional reindeer milk leipäjuusto.
Below is travel Vlogger Brodie Vissers searching for Kaffeost – which through his trials, seems to be more of a myth than a culinary reality – or (at the least) something specific to only a certain region of the world.
[Oddity Central] [YouTube: Brodie Vissers]
