Coles have dropped their price on selected cheese blocks by $4.40.
Source news.com.au so not sure if this is deal worthy. It's a 12 week special apparently.
Coles Light Tasty Cheddar Block 1kg and Coles Colby Cheese Block 1kg are also reduced to the same price. Coles Simply Cheddar Cheese Block 1kg is reduced from $9.90 to $9.
what kind of cheese do you make?
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Make your own…
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Just leave milk out to spoil (ferment) and you've pretty much got cheese.
at which point is yoghurt ?
@capslock janitor: yes, of course! thanks!
i used to use that method myself, but had totally forgotten about it as I haven't made any in quite some time (& my memory isn't what it used to be lol)
Woolworths is actually way ahead of Coles on this one.
Woolworths dropped the price of thier 1kg HillView cheese (green plastic wrapped) to $9.90 a few months ago.
And its a very good chedder cheese - highly recommended !
Its not flakey like some other cheddar cheeses and so very easy to cut thin slices for sandwiches.
i always liked when the cheese was flaky not gonna lie lol
Yes I have been buying that, too. Cheapest around for a while.
I tried HillView once years ago and had to return it because it was so revolting it was inedible. And I'm not that fussy when it comes to cheese. Never bothered to try it again. Has it improved over time or did I just get a bad one?
No its not improved. Its tastless. They use to source there cheese from NZ and thats when I thought why was it crap. After doing some research it was the same cheese as NZ Pam supermarket brand - also terrible. After doing some research, I found out that cheaper cheese has less protein in it due to being a by product after the protein was used to make powder.Im assuming its the same now too with it being made in Aus. Also the cheese isnt matured enough
Coles has being 950 for a month or two, tested both ages ago, Coles tasty wins by miles. Never gone back to any other
Woolies cheese doesn't come close to coles tasty, though coles tasty cheese is hit and miss. Not consistent as I would like but when you get a good tasty block it's awesome, crumble and tasty.
I love Coles cheese for the taste / cost. I love it when I get a crumbly block - reminds me of Mainland and Anchor cheese. When its not crumbly its still better then all the other generic brands.
Totally agreed. Coles cheese used to be BEGA cheese rebranded so not sure who makes it now days.
I'll buy a couple just before the $10 deal finishes.
I find you have to wait abit after buying it for it, freshly opened always is always missing something lol, it truely changes the next day tho
And wouldn't ya know it, Woolworths has matched price as of today. Exact. Same. Price.
I remember they were $9 back in early 2023. Then went up to $10/$11 -> $13.90 since.
How does the taste compare?
it doesn't. the coles cheese is a crazy good cheese even at the inflated price
My personal opinion: Bega>Coles>ALDI>>>WWS (Hillview)
The coles one is probably Bega anyway
@doobey1231: Coles cheese has been made by most majors in the past including Bega. In Feb 2024 Murray Goulburn (Devondale brand) who already supplies Cole’s milk, won the cheese contract for 5 years. Not sure when it starts from they usually need lead time
@Wiadro: It’s technically Saputo Dairy now my bad. They also make Devondale and Cheer and Cracker Barrel. You can find a story on News.com.au about the price drop at Saputo is at the bottom of the story .
@bboz: It’s Saputo dairy now, but they do make Devondale, Cheer and Cracker barrel, see news.com.au story at bottom of article
@doobey1231: Coles ones have normal sized slices (12 slices per), unlike the thinner Bega ones (16 slices per) for the same weight.
and costco cheese?
not really fair to chuck bega in there, the coles cheeses are obv house branded
@0jay: Fair enough. I only included it in there cause at one point (last year) the Bega was similar price compared to the home-brands.
Many years since we've bought Bega block cheddar but unless they've changed their formula I'd agree with that assessment RL. Coles Tasty is a middling cheddar taste-wise but a step up from the "standard" Coles, Aldi and Ww. Aldi has some 500g Vintage tasty cheddar if you want more flavour. No longer a member but Costco has some very good English vintage "cracker-worthy" cheddars.
Coles cheese is so good. Beats out a lot of the name brands.
'gree
I can't believe they're charging almost $14 for home brand cheese.
Can we even call that Cheese?
Legally, yes.
Okay for toasties, grilled cheese, grating in/on food etc.
Actual cheese (not that plastic singles crap) is expensive in general, $10/kg is about right.
It's not their 'home brand', this one is their home brand
https://www.coles.com.au/product/coles-simply-cheddar-cheese…
You can always rely on aldi not to rip you off
Aldi had two 1kg cheese brands at similar prices.
Pre-COVID these were $6.00 and about $6.90.
They both went up to around $9.00 during COVID-19.
Unfortunately Aldi dropped the better (cheaper) one and kept the crappy one thats quite flakey and difficult to cut without it falling apart.
But Aldi are very good at dropping good products from thier range - so frustating!
Since then Ive been buying HillView 1kg Cheddar cheese from Woolworths for $9.90 (current price)
Its a much better cheddar cheese.
which is the flakey one? I used to get Aldi one years ago and it was really good, then around 4 years ago got it again and it was crap, smooth, tasteless….I usually get the Coles Tasty as that one is quite nice. If Aldi have upped their game again I might try. The flakey/crumbly ones are usually the good ones….
I guess cheese is very much a personal taste.
Personally I find flakey cheese rather frustrating.
It just falls apart when you try to cut it.
And it can be rather dry.
But if you cut it thick enough and it stays together it can taste good.
For me, I like a cheese thats easy to cut into whatever thickness you need.
@HeWhoKnows: It sounds about right with Aldi changing. I noticed the difference and agree - smooth and tastless, just like the Woolies generic
Be great if they dropped the vintage too which is great cheese
woolies' version sucks hard in comparison imo (aldi's not great either)
Grate cheese is great cheese
great cheese can be grated, garbage cheese grated'll never be great
Are you rating the grating or setting a grate rating ?
The Coles vintage cheese is even better than Cracker Barrel. It's so sharp it's basically parmesan.
wayback machine shows $6.90 in 2019, prices are actually wild now.
That alone is pure madness.
Cows are being paid more nowadays - so costs have risen.
cow union's been making strides
progress at a trot
Fertiliser Fuel Power Rises affect farm gate prices but supermarket greed adds more .
Did you have a link please? I couldn't find it.
yeah i really don't understand this. and so many everyday things have increased drastically just like this. Something is rotten and i feel like its mismanagement by government… it feels really unfair
it's really just opportunistic companies who saw a chance to overinflate their prices & blaming it as being "cost of living" increases.
Woolworths have Hillview cheese block $9.90 all day every day. Yes it's more expensive but not much more
Coles has a cheap awful block of cheese for the same price. This is a decent cheddar.
Half-decent
NZ cheese vs. Australian. Hillview is a NZ sourced product packed in Australia
Ill have to check again, it originally said on packaging - Made in NZ, and then Made in Aus. Either way its crap becuase its a by product where the protein is taken out to be used for powder
protein’s not ‘taken out’
whey’s a by-product of cheese making, it just happens that it’s useful as a protein supplement
"Made In New Zealand, Packed In Australia" per the website for tasty.
@Gav: NZ usually prides itself on provides its dairy products. unless its the opposite of the usual
"we sell the best overseas to get the highest prices, then sell the rest locally"
& has ended up being
"we sell the best stuff locally, then sell the rest overseas"
I swear Mainland "salt-reduced" butter is the best butter I've ever bought & use it every day. There used to be a "un-salted option" & that was the absolute best. but for some reason that I don't understand we can't seem to be able to buy it in local supermarkets anymore.
We tried hillview and it was crap. You couldn't slice is properly without it all crumbling and falling apart. Never again!
Oh I must try it then as IMHO the best tasting cheddars/tasty are exactly this!
my understanding is that:
a) "tasty" cheese is usually not "flakey" & has a "milder" taste than "cheddar".
its texture lends itself more to being used for school lunches who want more than the "plasticky-tasting" options.
b) "cheddar" cheese is at it's best when it's "flakey" & has a more "developed & more tarte" taste.
its more "flakier texture & tarte flavor lends itself for being used on cheese boards etc.
c) unfortunately, my experience with cheese marked under the "hillview" brand has almost been that these cheeses were smooth & tasteless as others have related.
Thanks for sharing. In today's world, $9.50 for 1kg of cheese it's reasonable.
Yea basically $10 a kilo for cheese is my cut off point; even for boosie cheeses I just wait until they go 80% off (happens a lot at my coles).
Wow,this is the best cheese for me. Better than woolies or aldis. Actually had a bit of a kick to it. I hope they did not change the recipe.
Let me translate this for everyone watching at home
We tried to extort our customers and noticed that the overall profits for this item dropped following the price increase. Hence we are reducing it back to what it reasonably should've been priced at from the start for 12 weeks to collect data on how we can min-max the price.
Let's also not mention the multi-faceted government scrutiny we are under.
My boy Curtis ‘feed the family for $10’ Stone real quiet these days
1kg of cheese would feed the average family for one meal plus 50c change.
Oink.
My lactose intolerance: AYO
and everyone else wouldn't sh!t for a month
Majority of the things atm are 100% up
Except my SHIB holdings…
🥲
HODL homes.. There will come a time
I shoulda just copped it and swapped to pepe fml
If this ever goes to $1, ill have F U Money.
Bruh
Woolies will match the price in 5..4..3..2..1.. #duopoly