What mozzarella is used in restaurants ? Fresh ball mozzarella (wet) or dried mozzarella ? How much ?

[abab]

Hello,

 

People from Europe know that the only real mozzarella is the fresh white ball, but I am not sure for the rest of the world.

 

Is for you the white wet ball the only real mozzarella that should be used in Italian restaurant ?

 

Or do you consider acceptable to have the dried mozzarella on your expensive pizza ?

 

Actually pizza should have both, but a lot of the fresh one should be seen on pizzas, do you agree ?

 

Do you know where Italian restaurants in Thailand buy their mozza and how much they pay it ?

 

Cheers.

[JamJar]

Seen what looked like locally made Mozzarella for 85 baht in supermarkets, Perhaps Friendship. Don't remember exactly. So perhaps cheaper from the supplier. 

[Crossy]

I can't help with a local supplier, but that photo brought back happy (and somewhat blurred) memories of Sunday lunch snacks of fresh mozzarella, home cured parma ham, freshly baked Italian bread, some olives and local wine whilst sat in the sunshine in a little village south west of Rome.

 

How to clean drool out of a keyboard?

 

The mozzarella I've had in a caprese here is likely local, tastes ok but not up to Italian standards.

[Pdaz]

You can buy both local and imported mozzarella in Foodland, Big C Extra and the Tops under Central. Even the real Buffalo milk variety is available. 

Expect to pay between 85 and 125 Baht. Check the label carefully if you want the genuine imported article as the locally produced ones love to splash the Italian flag on their packaging. For pizza and other cooking I find the locally produced mozzarella is fine. But as an accompaniment to cold cuts or in a caprese I'd choose the imported "Mozzarella di Bufala"  A bit more pricey but worth it for it's rich creamy consistency and fuller flavour.

[thierryviteau]

The only real mozzarella is the one on the photo. The dry mozz is not good when used on pizza, everybody knows that.

 

 

[keeniau96]

PProper pizza needs wet mozzarella, can sprinkle some of the dry on top after delivered to the table. Here in Phuket the big Makro by Central always has a good supply of the wet in clear plastic bags, also much of the dried. Topps market in Central has had really good buffalo mozzarella, usually delivered on Thursday but all gone by Friday. 

[U235]

Restaurants  buy their mozzarella in blocks from approx. 2 kg. It is the white one, however not packed in water. And it's a bit cheaper as Foodland ;-)

 

 

[Speedo1968]

On 4/28/2017 at 7:48 AM, Pdaz said:

You can buy both local and imported mozzarella in Foodland, Big C Extra and the Tops under Central. Even the real Buffalo milk variety is available. 

Expect to pay between 85 and 125 Baht. Check the label carefully if you want the genuine imported article as the locally produced ones love to splash the Italian flag on their packaging. For pizza and other cooking I find the locally produced mozzarella is fine. But as an accompaniment to cold cuts or in a caprese I'd choose the imported "Mozzarella di Bufala"  A bit more pricey but worth it for it's rich creamy consistency and fuller flavour.

 Thank you for pointing out that the "Real" mozzarella is from buffalo.

I have looked for this in KK, but not been able to get the real stuff, mainly cows from Australia.

 

Haven't found a real Lassie drink either yet ( i.e. buffalo milk ).

[ukrules]

There's a company that makes cheese in Hua Hin, this is a link to their products page :

 

http://www.delcasaro.com/15245549/products

 

Apparently they've ben around for a long time and they do appear to specialise in mozarella for pizza along with a few others.

[NickJ]

Depends on who owns the restaurant.  Mostly it's the cheapest one they can find. Then....less and less of it.

[anotheruser]

Depending on what type of pizza you are trying to make you can use either. Pizza much like modern society has evolved. You will find many types for any taste.

[bangkokairportlink]

6 hours ago, anotheruser said:

Depending on what type of pizza you are trying to make you can use either. Pizza much like modern society has evolved. You will find many types for any taste.

 

Quite wrong. Real pizza use the fresh ball and nobody who knows what is a real pizza would use the dried one alone. The fresh mozzarella is essential.

 

 

[U235]

17 hours ago, anotheruser said:

Depending on what type of pizza you are trying to make you can use either. Pizza much like modern society has evolved. You will find many types for any taste.

 

Sadly, on many commercial pizza's they don't even put cheese, but a cheaper fake product. In Asia the manufacturers can argue that real cheese would make their customers sick (most Asians are lactose intolerant), but they use this trick also in  Europe and the US. 

 

Best is to avoid frozen pizza's and chains a la Pizza Hut as the plague and go to real restaurants, but even then you can not be sure.

 

Last year many Americans were horrified wen they found out they have been putting wood on their home made spaghetti sauce for years ;-) This happens if you buy cheap fake American products instead the real Italian ones lol.

 

http://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2016/kraft-heinz-in-lawsuit-over-parmesan-cheese-containing-wood-pulp/

http://time.com/4226321/parmesan-wood-pulp/

[Crossy]

On 28/04/2017 at 5:20 AM, Crossy said:

I can't help with a local supplier, but that photo brought back happy (and somewhat blurred) memories of Sunday lunch snacks of fresh mozzarella, home cured parma ham, freshly baked Italian bread, some olives and local wine whilst sat in the sunshine in a little village south west of Rome.

 

We used to go here 41.663918, 12.480268

 

If you're in the area, well worth a look, apparently you can't drive into the village now.

 

EDIT We also loved Frascati. On a weekend buy picnic food in the Piazza del Mercato then go to one of the restaurants on via Regina Margherita. They didn't sell food but they sold wine by the gallon and rented cutlery and crockery. A brilliant Sunday lunch, and you could get there by train.

 

[bangkokairportlink]

1 hour ago, U235 said:

 

Sadly, on many commercial pizza's they don't even put cheese, but a cheaper fake product. In Asia the manufacturers can argue that real cheese would make their customers sick (most Asians are lactose intolerant), but they use this trick also in  Europe and the US. 

 

Best is to avoid frozen pizza's and chains a la Pizza Hut as the plague and go to real restaurants, but even then you can not be sure.

 

Last year many Americans were horrified wen they found out they have been putting wood on their home made spaghetti sauce for years ;-) This happens if you buy cheap fake American products instead the real Italian ones lol.

 

http://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2016/kraft-heinz-in-lawsuit-over-parmesan-cheese-containing-wood-pulp/

http://time.com/4226321/parmesan-wood-pulp/

 

 

Not all frozen pizza use fake cheese. I bought the casino brand at bigC and it was good.

 

And I think that there is no fake wet mozzarella (the white ball). this is why I will never eat a pizza that is supposed to have the dried yellowish mozza on top. It could be fake cheese.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gaff]

Hi, any idea where to buy the real Mozarella di buffala in Pattaya ? The only good one made from Bubalina (buffalo) milk (not cow milk)

 

And can you find burrata also ? (but it is made with cow milk only)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrata

 

 

Thank you.