How do you like your Polish OSCYPEK?

pgtx 29 | 3092

17 Sep 2013 #1

Oscypek is delicious!

Oscypek is popular in Poland.

Oscypek is a smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland.

Oscypek

If you know it and if you like it... how do you like it?

Grilled oscypek with cranberries?

Grilled oscypek with bacon?

oscypek z boczkiem

p3undone 7 | 1098

17 Sep 2013 #2

Looks damn good!

jon357 77 | 26126

17 Sep 2013 #3

Shaved thin and served with rocket (ruccola for Americans) and red onion in a salad.

Or use it instead of parmesan on pasta.

Harry

17 Sep 2013 #4

Shaved thin and served with rocket (ruccola for Americans) and red onion in a salad.

Try shaving it thin and then taking a blow torch to it (obviously try not to let it burn though).

g60edition 6 | 174

17 Sep 2013 #5

Grilled with cranberries please

jon357 77 | 26126

17 Sep 2013 #6

Goes well with Goji berries too ;-)

OP pgtx 29 | 3092

17 Sep 2013 #7

Shaved thin and served with rocket (ruccola for Americans) and red onion in a salad.

interesting and worth trying.
i like rucola salad with some garlic, tomatoes, salt, pepper and squeezed lemon juice. i'll add some oscypes as well.

hugggy

22 Sep 2013 #8

In the bin horrible stuff tastes like rubber and squeaks when you chew it

Peter59 4 | 35

29 Sep 2013 #9

I always have to laugh when I think of this cheese. When my sister and I were walking around the market in Krakow, she bought some from a street vendor. She thought they were cookies!!! She thought it was the worse cookie she ever had!! It does make a nice cheese though.

Peter-KRK

1 Oct 2013 #10

Inedible salty rubber. Yes. What's more, 90% of oscypeks are fake. May be you can find a decent (but still not tasty!) oscypek at highlander in the mountains, but rather not in Zakopane City and of course not in Cracow and especially not in the store.

Peter59 4 | 35

2 Oct 2013 #11

What's more, 90% of oscypeks are fake.

What are the fake ones??,and how do you tell real from fake??

f stop 24 | 2493

2 Oct 2013 #12

(ruccola for Americans)

Arugula in US

dirk

2 Oct 2013 #13

What are the fake ones??,and how do you tell real from fake??

if its in a supermarket then its fake, if its for sale on the street its fake as they have been mass produced usually using milk powder and a lot of filler and flavour enhancers.

You will only get real if its home made with fresh sheep milk and you see it being made anything produced for sale is ****** quality and really rubbery and thats because it mainly is fillled with gum

pawian 226 | 27208

23 Feb 2020 #14

Oscypek tastes good. I like its rubbery texture when only smoked and crunchy when grilled.

jon357 77 | 26126

14 Aug 2026 #15

Inedible salty rubber

Largely yes. Midly fun when grilled, but not much of a cheese taste, a rubbery texture and very very salty.

You can grate it like parmesan if you don't mind the high salt levels.

Korvinus 9 | 895

14 Aug 2026 #16

Good oscypek should squeak between you teeth.

Ron2

14 Aug 2026 #17

@Korvinus
Don't give oscypek produces ideas as they may add chemicals to make it squeak..

Alien 31 | 8069

14 Aug 2026 #18

Good oscypek should squeak between you teeth

Just like a fresh banana.

jon357 77 | 26126

14 Aug 2026 #19

they may add chemicals to make it squeak..

Who knows, who knows...

Still bland and rubbery.

banana

I'm not bothered for those either.