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hey guys welcome back to our Channel today we are going to be doing a
dairy-free shredded mozzarella cheese taste test challenge we love when we get
suggestions from you guys and after we did a grilled cheese taste test
challenge a few of you had asked us to compare some shredded cheeses and so we
are excited to test it out ourselves and hope you guys like it too we went out to
all of our local stores and we actually found nine different vegan mozzarella
cheeses and so we are going to be adding those to our homemade cheese pizza now I
don't know about you but I used to love mozzarella cheese it had that perfect
stretch that light milky taste and it was one of my favorite cheeses when we
weren't vegan during this taste test we are going to be looking for four
different things we're going to be looking for the texture the taste the
melt ability of it and also the stretchiness we really want to get that
stretchiness that we were used to with a mozzarella cheese so if you are as
excited as I am let's get right to it we're going to start off by making our
favorite homemade pizza dough we already have a video on how to make this and
we're gonna link that below it's actually super easy to make it needs
just eight ingredients there are six dry ingredients and two wet ingredients you're
gonna add all your dry ingredients together in your bowl and then you're
gonna go in with the wet ingredients it only takes about five minutes to mix all
of this together and there's no need for any machines here which means less
dishes for you to have to wash tonight once your dough is all together you're
gonna dump that onto a floured surface and then knead it by hand for just a few
turns then go ahead and toss it back into the bowl cover it and then it's
going to double in size it's gonna take about a total of 45 to 60 minutes for it
to double in size for this video we are gonna take that dough and split it into
four sections to make mini pizzas because we are testing 10 different
vegan cheese brands we had to do this a few
first up we're testing the two from the Daiya brand their original one and a new
cutting board blend for all of our pizzas we made the same way we shaped
our dough and then added our sauce and then on with the vegan cheese then we
baked the color was different for each of these the cutting board blend was
more white versus yellow in the original blends also the original blend was more
oily versus not for the cutting board one we think that the cutting board blend
far outranks our original blend especially when it is in terms of taste
it was more close to a true cheese versus the overpowering taste of the
original blend they both melted within eight to ten
minutes neither of these were super stretchy but the original blend had more
of a stretch than the cutting board blend both of these are gluten and soy free
next up we have the good planet and so delicious brands both of these are
also soy and gluten free with the good planet it had longer shreds than other
brands but it didn't melt even with an extra six minutes in the oven we didn't
keep cooking because we didn't want the crust to burn but it had a solid taste
that we actually liked the so delicious brand also didn't have a pull and had a
really strong coconut taste that we actually didn't care very much for
next up is the Trader Joe's and Aldi brands. if you didn't know these are sister
companies both appear to be soy and gluten-free but it doesn't say so on the
packaging the melt on these was absolutely insane they had the best melt
of any of the brands that we tried we actually think that these might be the
same cheese just packaged a little differently while the price point on
these is great it's that cheese that sticks to the roof of your mouth it also
has a sweet smell and a taste that we just aren't really huge fans of
up next is a brand new Whole Foods 365 blend along with the follow your heart
brand both of these brands are soy free and the follow your heart is also gluten
free the follow your heart brand melted really well there was also a little bit
of a stretch on this one but what's best is that we thought the taste on this one
was actually amazing the 365 brand had long shreds similar to the good planet
brand from earlier in the video and again it didn't melt as well even with
extra time in the oven there also wasn't much of a stretch even though it says
melt and stretches on the package the taste was still good on this one
Lastly we have the violife and the Parmela Creamery nut cheese brands both of these
are also soy and gluten-free both of the brands Melted well but neither of them
have that stretch that we were really looking for with the Parmela Creamery
cheese we thought that since it says aged it was going to have a stronger
flavor profile however it was actually more similar to a light buttery taste
the violife actually smelled like a mozzarella cheese and had a great taste
on our pizza that was similar to real cheese we really liked this one
we were really surprised overall at the taste of many of these our top three brands would
be the follow your heart, violife, and a daiya cutting board blend rounding out
the top 5 would be the Whole Foods 365 and good planet brand. Read our post for more
details about each and if you have another taste test you want us to do
leave a comment below
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