QI XL - Why Does Grated Cheese Taste Better?

[leakeg]

god, and the woman is thick. "so overcautious" - yeah thanks, thanks for summarizing what we've been talking about for the last 3 minutes.

[leakeg]

"so you will destroy it and buy some more"

So true. And unfortunately there are people who actually do it!

[VegaCoyote]

... so I'm NOT insane! Yes! Grated parmasian smells exactly like puke, and I have never liked it for exactly that reason!

[Udany147]

3:18 rather

[elnocho3]

@Udany147 - she's a miserable old trout anyway. never got why ppl find her funny

[Udany147]

@elnocho3 Well, she only ever makes jokes about her weight, age and her husband... that's at least better than the token ethnic comedians who only joke about, well, their race.

[Udany147]

2:18 Jo Brand appears to have missed the past two minutes

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

Grated cheese... surface area?! That's crap, you'd arguably get MORE surface area on your tongue laying down a flat piece of cheese than little grated bits with spaces between?

That's like saying gay sex is better because arses are tighter than vaginas, or slapstick humour is better than observational humour because it takes less effort to understand; it's personal opinion as to what's "better", not something scientifically provable...

[adamelphic]

@ChainsawGutsFuck Someone Didn't pass maths at school ;)

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

@adamelphic I passed maths, but I didn't pass Chemistry...

[frontsquats]

@ChainsawGutsFuck You obviously don't understand the basic mathematical principles of surface area and surface area per unit volume.

[ChainsawGutsFuck]

@frontsquats I just obviously don't give a shit, haha

[MsHojat]

Is "big time style" a saying in the UK or something? The statement was still kinda funny to me as a non-UK, but it could mean something I'm not thinking of.

[cazman182]

@MsHojat no lmao it's just Stephen Fry being hilarious :L

[heinzie5]

never thought i would hear stephen fry say "big time style"

[Wyrmshadow]

Parmesan smells like feet.

[enzyme1210]

Why can't Jo Brand just shut up and let the clever, funny people talk. All she does is repeat other comedian's points, in a far less funny manner, or blame her husband for her weight and general unattractiveness. She ruins QI for me and every time she's on I have to debate whether to watch it and have to tolerate her banality.

[numberman52]

@ faae nsyen s 1zaheme210dty

[adamg124]

I have been watching Qi clips for the past two hours... i cant stop.. help me.. please!

[Confusedfurry]

@adamg124

If you are still alive, i can send supplies, but i can't mount a rescue attempt for another month.

[elnocho3]

@adamg124 - the curse of youtube is upon you!

[carpii]

Ive not seen Sean Lock on any of the latest 'I' series.

Has he left? :(

[septentrionale]

Grated Cheese tastes better because it has more surface area. The flavour has nowhere to hide.

[TheRationalRant]

0:21 Anthony Worrall Thompson.

[Zukashi07]

Sean Lock, the only guy in the world to wear pants in a sauna

[ChrisButchie]

"Put it in your pants, go in the sauna"

[PassTheMarmalade1957]

It worries me that I really like parmesan, and yet when they said that it smells of vomit I went, "Oh yeah, it does."

[Simoneiscooler]

Big time style

[theotendleeey]

"a celebration of what happens when milk goes off big time styley" almost soiled myself.

[Shindai]

I fucking love this show :D

[gamerunknown]

What a great synthesis between the two English accents :>

[Greatduke12]

@gamerunknown Two? there's WAY more than that chum.

[MarekUtd]

Fuck it! I want cheese now!

[sunlad34]

cheese grosses me out i had a hard time looking at this

[RyanPriceish]

Sounds like a bad pun...

Because it has a GRATER surface area :P

[isabbygabbyorcrabby]

'celebrations' should have a cheese options

if you don't get it, c 2:09

LOL!!!

[Aeoliandorian]

@Armageddon0mega Why? Are you deaf?

[BleedingLlama]

Surface Area.

[DafyddCymraeg]

3:28 - Jo's face 'the fuck?' expression really amuses me

[ResoluteReader]

Doesn't compare to Wisconsin milk gone off big time styley ;)

[gyqz]

'Put it down your pants and go in the sauna'?? Who wears their pants in the sauna?? :-D

[Choo69]

@gyqz obviously those who eat greated cheese.

[gyqz]

@Choo69 Oh...ok! I have never been to a sauna, so I wouldn't know....I eat grated cheese though....

[wordreet]

@gyqz Cheesemakers!

[steffenml]

@gyqz Some brits call underwear "pants" :)

[gyqz]

@steffenml Ok, but still the question remains...:p

[NGE0001]

Anyone else now feel like a cheese sandwich?

[UnitedKingdomify]

Can't stand the smell of parmesan. Can't be in the same room with it, can't eat if anybody else has it near. It smells utterly foul.

[wordreet]

@UnitedKingdomify How about Camembert ?? ;¬)

[ImmortalMonkeyX]

the irony of there being a cheese advert in the right hand corner...

[Armageddon0mega]

This needs subtitles.

[BloodStoney]

It's the celebration of what happens when milk goes off big time styley!

ahh Stephen Fry

[Ghefly]

The comments on this video are so middle class haha. "Parmesan is only aged for 3 years!" "My brother has a 25 year old bottle of scotch whisky with a sell by date on it". I love QI's fanbase!

[JackyRowe]

I've also heard that the blue mould that grows on Danish Blue is exactly the same as the mould that grows underneath unwashed toenails...

[Angdharagh]

@JackyRowe Good god... How long would you have to dodge a shower for that to happen?" O_O

[DoctorMelon]

@JackyRowe Hence "cheesy feet" one would assume.

[JackyRowe]

@DoctorMelon Mind. Blown!!

[samthepsycicclam]

I was thinking of the bit about gone off cheese because I saw a thing on my soap that said use in 24 months and thought a) whose gonna have it that long an b) why? Then started thinking about David Mitchel and came to watch this, Qi now controls my brain... But yeah some sell buy dates are just ridiculous, my brother owns a bottle of 25 year aged whiskey with a sell buy date on it.

[greekpanther1]

wtf, cheese isnt aged for 20 years...

[livstar93]

@greekpanther1 they are exaggerating but some cheeses are aged, such as cheddars and thinks which are left for 3-5 years etc

[proprodigySD]

Only on QI could you answer that cheese smells likes cheese and be wrong.

[superhamzah85]

I've always hated Parmesan, makes my physically sick. I wish it didn't coz it looks nice on stuff.

[thefuckheadsgalore]

I thought parmesan cheese smelled of vomit because it has rennet in it, which is the stomach lining from cows.

[Tamashi88]

@thefuckheadsgalore I thought that most cheeses have rennet in them... but I could be wrong.

[jakamneziak]

my argument would be that as i am allergic to the stuff i don't think it tastes good at all, it would kill me if i did.



[almightyjass]

2:21 - kill him..

[Walrusaurus]

Wow, I assumed I just had a weird sense of taste, but I guess there's an objective precedent for it.

[seitenshow]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuark funnnnnnnnny

[IzziCM]

@TheGreatOldOne Well all of my friends understand what surface area is... Deduce from that what you will...

[TheGreatOldOnes]

Holy fuck. They expected audiences to understand not only what surface area is, but also why that would affect taste.

Either they are overestimating their audiences or the people I know are stupid.

[Kafata2]

@TheGreatOldOnes "If there is anyone here or at home watching who believes in Astrology they should leave now. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME".

I think that did it :D

[TheGreatOldOnes]

@Kafata2 I wonder if that would work in real life....

OFF TO EXPERIMENT!

Now...if I could only find my safety goggles...

[thatguywiththeegg]

@TheGreatOldOnes You live in America...

[redbazinga]

Love it when Stephen makes the comedians laugh lots

[trixiehodgson95]

wow stephen looks great after losing all the weight

[IloveSnufkin]

I like how no-one actually attempts to answer the question...

[DipChipson]

I would probably have sex with Shaun Locke if he asked, he is like Clinton, no matter how much you fight it, it's going to happen.

[journeyer58]

Do wish that we had such great shows here in the States. We have nothing like this, so many other shows, I do wish there was a way we could get the BBC shows like this and others on the internet. Please work out a way for this to happen.

[WubwubDubstep]

I haven't watched past stephen's intro or read any of the comments yet. Is it because each individual uh... "unit" of grated cheese has more surface area which means it has more surface-to-air contact, normalizes to the surrounding temperature more quickly etc. Watching the clip now.

Fuck yes, I love it when I get something right on QI. It's not as impossibly difficult as the other "real" and "brainy" quiz shows.

[PiscisCruor]

My sister asks why grated cheese tastes better everytime we make pizza, and now I can sound smarter than I really am and tell her! Not that I will remember.

[FrankiiDoodle]

I always find that cheese tastes stronger if I have a big chunk of it but grated cheese tastes just enough to be enjoyable without being overpowering :/

[ishsawah]

I love David in that colour.

[DavieGong]

"What does parmesan cheese smell like when it's grated?"

"Cheese."

"No."

[Akfilm92]

@DavieGong

Haha :D

[Brian88X]

@DavieGong I was expecting the alarm to go off then.

[Arksimon2k]

I prefer sliced cheese, but I would admit that the cheese is more 'intense' when grated. I actually don't prefer that though, i like it mild.

[okjenna]

The man in the middle has interesting fashion choices.

[Elf0Fantasy]

@okjenna If you are trying to say hes gay, Yes he is.... And hes proud of it.

If not, Then hes still gay but he would probably want to thank you for saying it ;)

[frickinradical]

this david mitchell rant was brought to you by the good people of QI

[GoFeri]

I suddenly have this urge to eat some cheese...

[hbanana7]

i love cheese. Rose by any other name will still smell as sweet. Lol.

[yoshinibble123]

"What sort of twit would do that?" - LOL.

[Mullahgrrl]

I thought it was because it catches the taste of the grate.

[moshpotpaul]

So if cheese has been aged for 20 years, how come it gets mouldy in my fridge?

[sporky111]

@moshpotpaul I think when cheese is made it's not exposed to the air. But the air makes it mold. Of course, it doesn't really go bad. You can just cut off the moldy bits and the cheese is still fine underneath.

[zombieravens]

@sporky111 careful, mould sends out hyphae in a similar fashion to roots of a tree (but I think they're more a means of communication), anyway, from these hyphae, some moulds release toxins into whatever they're living on, so if you cut too close to a poisonous mould you may get food poisoning. I still cut mould off as well though, haha

[zombieravens]

@moshpotpaul

maybe because it's been aged in an enclosed rind, so when it's been cut up, more and/or new moulds attach and grow?? Or maybe because it's in a new environment, where has the cheese been aged, what temperature, humidity, country? Or maybe a mixture of both? Or neither.

[SkrateBeastin]

You could put it on a rooftop in Nairobi... bahahahah.

[juugoolart]

I love watching QI!! I only recently discovered this program and already I've finished all the series and I'm watching it over and over again. :))

It really makes a really really crappy day much much better.

Always put a smile on my face no matter how many times I've heard the same dialogue :))

[livexlaughxlove1145]

I ADORE this panel.

[117cam]

what does big time stylee mean!?!?! bwahaha

[Akfilm92]

@117cam

haha. When milk is turned into something thick that looks and tastes good, and is eaten long after it has gone stale (milk --> cheese)

[117cam]

@Akfilm92 fair enough haha 

[Akfilm92]

@117cam

XD

[Roksonixx]

@Akfilm92 he didnt get the joke

[whowantsabighug]

@117cam Massively and lavishly.

[domclarke92]

@117cam well "big time stlylee" just means a lot :P

[MiracleMira]

Haven't seen this one. "goes off big time stylee" haha wasn't expecting that ... made my evening :) thanks for posting

[CBAUSERNAME]

lol, when milk goes off big time stylee, stephen fry is a genius

[sravankumarb]

Of course it tastes better, it's GRATE!!

Lol, guys - get it?

[MizariaMusic]

lol @ locke/mitchell x

[Nitocrisss]

I just can't believe how many people still think the laugh is fake. I mean they've shown the audience like a hundred times, even on Alan's vids you can clearly see about 200 people in the studio.

[sunkissedapple]

@Nitocrisss

I've been to a recording, and us (the audience) are recorded laughing live.

[Nitocrisss]

@sunkissedapple that's exactly what I mean, of all shows qi would never need fake laugh! you are lucky btw to have been to a recording. I wish I could see them that close!

[hmmhowstrange]

alan davies is adorable

[TheMadCheeseGrater]

it's all in the ENZYMES!  Love that bright yellow tie. The recorded laugh-track sure thought this was funny...

[TheMadCheeseGrater]

it's all in the ENZYMES! Love that bright yellow tie.

[ashliski]

Never gonna eat parmesan again, will just be thinking of vomit.

[spongiebungie]

we call it vomit cheese- pass the vomit cheese- anyone want vomit cheese on their scettie ?

[sheps999]

Makes contact with your to-

[SidheDragon]

Stephen is looking so big time styley in this clip.

[queenastilon]

Shelf life is affected once cheese is cut from the wheel, the moist surfaces vulnerable to colonisation by pathogens. When I lived in the netherlands there was a listeria scare. Food snobs were shocked when it was revealed that "fresh" brie from the deli counter had 20 times more listeria germs than the cheaper vacuum packed stuff.

Uncut Parmesan cheese wheels go off in a way. I used to know someone in the business who had to regularly burn the mould off his stored Parmesans with a blowtorch.

[Natemire]

I walways wondered why parm smelled like sweaty foot.....now I know

[spartandwales]

thats put me off parmesan

[bailer4life]

Next time a waiter offers to put parmesan on my spaghettiO's I'm gonna spit in his face.

[fritspas]

Silly Sean, you don't wear your pants in a sauna.

[comanchio1976]

@fritspas You do if you like your cock-cheese made out of cows milk.

[Mullahgrrl]

Its Grrrate!

[KryssLaBryn]

Actually, in Canada (and I believe in the States too), our cheese has a "Best Before" date on it, after which they won't guarantee that it's NOT poison lol.

Also, I find it odd that the cheese would need to be consumed within two days (especially considering that cheese was originally used as a long-term milk storage device), and I wonder if perhaps it isn't refrigerated? Because in the fridge, yeah, it lasts forever.

Only don't refrigerate your Brie. Needs to be soft enough to spread. Yum.

[queenastilon]

@KryssLaBryn You can refridgerate any cheese and it will last longer. Brie & camambert, just take them out of the fridge an hour or so before you want to eat them.

[LowOnCreativityy]

LOL. "You're not alone, there are people here."

"It is the celebration of what happens when milk goes off big time stylee."