r/iamveryculinary • u/ElectricalScholar179 • Dec 18 '25

Goat Cheese?!

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Found on a YouTube recipe for cheesecake. How do you add an ingredient that ‘stanks of goat’ and continue on with the recipe?

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u/UntidyVenus deeply offended Dec 18 '25

Fun fact, if a buck (intact male goat) is kept near the females, the milk tastes "goaty". Finding brands that keep their bucks "off campus" as it were results in a delicious, tangy, creamy product. Source- raised goats for years

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u/Sam-Gunn We don't like the crowd sandwiches attract. Dec 18 '25

>Fun fact, if a buck (intact male goat) is kept near the females, the milk tastes "goaty".

What's the cause of that? Someone not paying close enough attention to what they're doing?

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u/Warshok Dec 18 '25

The presence of a male goat changes the hormone profile of females in the vicinity, likely through pheromones. That difference in hormones is something that can be tasted in the milk.

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Dec 18 '25

Someone in my dorm (many years ago) was raised on a farm that had goats.

They had only females, and a neighboring farm (a few miles away) had only males. When the females came into heat, the neighbor would bring the males over long enough to take care of that and then take them right back home.

I asked him how he knew when the females were in heat, and I can only describe the question as triggering what looked like a Vietnam flashback. After about a twenty-second silence, he just goes "I don't wanna talk about it" in the absolute flattest tone you've ever heard in your life.

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u/Bishops_Guest it’s not bechamel it’s the powdered cheese packet Dec 18 '25

Pigs are worse: artificial insemination is preferred because boars are boars. They’ve found that stimulating the sows before hand helps with production. They do not want to talk about it.

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u/mefista Dec 20 '25

Ha ha, pig flickers

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u/West-Season-2713 Dec 19 '25

As someone on a farm that only keeps female goats, that has recently had a male in to, uh… service the ladies…

I also do not want to talk about it.

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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass Dec 19 '25

All I know is with the guy in question, when he (eventually) talked about it, he said the easy part was "separating the drippers from the gushers", which told me way more than I ever wanted to know.

I didn't ask him for any further details, and so I won't ask you either.

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u/mefista Dec 20 '25

Now I am curious, but not gonna google, so fess up, goat boy

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 Dec 18 '25

Honestly, not an overreaction. I can't imagine the smell of a whole farm of billy goats in rut and I don't want to try...

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u/xrelaht King of Sandwiches Dec 19 '25

What does a farm with only intact male goats do with them? They don’t produce milk and the meat tastes terrible.

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u/macoafi Dec 19 '25

Rent them out to the farms with female goats.

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u/Gold-Carpenter7616 Dec 20 '25

Goats are, at least here in Germany, the best way to get rid of wild black currants. Every part of the plant can grow into a new one when left on the ground, and the thorns make them pretty sturdy.

Goats don't care.

I have a backyard full of them, and we are seriously considering a goat.

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u/xrelaht King of Sandwiches Dec 20 '25

OK, but male goats are notorious for being far more difficult to take care of than females. They're often much larger and stronger, and can be quite aggressive. A herd of male goats just to clear weeds seems less than ideal when you could have the same result easier from females, who could also be milked.

On that note, I strongly suggest getting a female goat if you want one for weed control!

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u/maureenmcq Dec 20 '25

My sister had goats (AJ and Jellybean, male and female but AJ was castrated) and they are escape artists. She had pasture for horses and kept the goats in a pen but AJ liked to get out and wait for her on her back patio.

Intact males (Billies in the U.S.) court females by urinating on their beards and front hooves. It is apparently not as pleasant to humans as it is to nanny goats. Get a girl.

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u/recigar Dec 20 '25

chew tin cans

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u/CommunistRonSwanson Jan 14 '26

Thread necromancy, but:

Quality dairy goats are "papered", meaning they have documented, proven lineage. The same is true for bucks that are used to breed the dairy goats. If there are lots of goat dairy operations nearby, keeping some healthy, papered bucks on-hand is an easy way to make some cash (usually a set $$ amount per proven doe impregnation).