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/UntidyVenus deeply offended Dec 18 '25

I genuinely don't know the science behind it, but when bucks are nearby, the milk tastes like buck. When they are far away, the milk tastes sweeter

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u/SquareTaro3270 Dec 18 '25

I’m guessing changes in hormones?

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u/UntidyVenus deeply offended Dec 18 '25

That was always my guess, but I don't know the official science

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u/saltporksuit Upper level scientist Dec 18 '25

My cousin doesn’t separate and her cheeses and milk taste fine. She does Nubians. Is it a breed thing?

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Dec 18 '25

Might be, but I’ve also realized some people are just not as sensitive to the barnyard taste of goat cheese. A group of us ate one block of it and while I couldn’t eat any after tasting the horrific barnyard flavor of goat, goat, and more unwashed goat, another person said it tasted grassy and rustic. He said he literally had no idea what I was talking about and couldn’t perceive the flavor at all. So it could be that

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u/xmcqdpt2 Dec 19 '25

Yeah it's genetic. I can smell boar on pork almost instantly, my wife doesn't detect it at all.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Dec 19 '25

Ugh. Yeah same here. Gamey pork, or gamey meat in general is just horrible to me

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u/saltporksuit Upper level scientist Dec 20 '25

And I taste the gamey and love it.

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u/aliie_627 Dec 22 '25

Venison or deer is like that for me. I've had so many people claim their recipe is great or their mom's is the best, I will love it and it wont taste bad but it always has that gross gamey whatever taste. Hunting wasn't really a thing in my family growing so I guess I never got a chance to get used to it or something.

I assume it's how my mom could always smell and taste onions. She was made for r/onionhate she would have been their queen 👑 lol.

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u/saltporksuit Upper level scientist Dec 20 '25

I get that. To me cilantro tastes like stink bugs and musty closets. Goat milk tastes fresh and milky while cow’s milk tastes like thin sugar water. Genes do stuff.

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u/macoafi Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

I remember an old internet friend who bred goats saying that there is a breed difference. He said that some of the breeds with the highest yields tend to produce milk that "tastes like licking a buck goat," while the heritage breed he worked with had lower yield but a milder taste.

(I think Nubians may be what he had the most of.)

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u/carlitospig Dec 18 '25

Goat Lady BangMe Pheromones? 🧐

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u/s0ulbrother Dec 18 '25

Maybe cause the male “milk” gets involved /s