Recent content by topdogpies

I honestly made that statement to joke and rattle some cages. Happy New Year and I hope we all do well in 09’.

All mozzarella cheeses follow the cheddar block market. I had a problem once during a big drop, but my distributor had a bit too much inventory. It worked out in the end, but salespeople like to hold prices on everything as long as they can. My advice to you is do your homework and put out the...

It’s easy for people to misunderstand posts…no worries.

Bodegahwy, You are making assumptions! Quality is an incredibly overused word in my opinion. Anyway, in reference to creampuff, I believe it’s funny for someone to reference brands like Krispy Kreme and Starbucks commenting on them being “just a name”. These are brands with a system based on...

Creampuff…you aren’t pissing me off…I just wish you were my competition instead of the other quality focused competitors I’m up against. Oh well!

Remember…percentages are relative to a number. As the price of cheese increases, your pennies over block will increase relatative to that percentage. For example 5% of 2.00 is 10 cents and 5% of 3.00 is 15 cents.

This is actually an imitation mozz. there is a lot of modified food starch in it which makes it look like plastic when it cools. You get what you pay for.

I’m not too impressed with Roseli (saputo). In a deck oven the product burns so I would be surprised to see it perform in a conveyor oven. It was pretty bland too. I know that my rep indicated that as many as 3 or 4 manufacturers can be authorized to produce private label at one time!

This happened to me once. One thing I can say is that even the lowest of the low is entitled to a good day. I switched briefly a few year ago and it was a big mistake. On a Saturday night the cheese I switched to was absolutely horrible, I had to get 3 cases from a friend’s shop to get me...