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A Periodic Map of Cheese

https://cheesemap.netlify.app/
75•sfrechtling•2h ago

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zeristor•1h ago
Perhaps cheese from Mad Max: Fury Road Mother’s milk.

Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked. As could some whales.

This is left as an exercise for the reader.

goosejuice•1h ago
When I was behind the cheese case quite awhile ago, we had a customer who misunderstood Wales as Whales. A good laugh was had.

"How do they milk the whales!?"

dhosek•52m ago
SCUBA gear, obviously.
dhosek•53m ago
Quotes from two bits of entertainment come to mind:

Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch:

C: Paper Cramer,

O: no

C: Danish Bimbo,

O: no

C: Czech sheep’s milk,

O: no

C: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

O: Not today, sir, no.

And Meet the Parents:

Greg Focker: You can milk just about anything with nipples.

Jack Byrnes: I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?

coke12•1h ago
What about human cheese?
ivaivanova•1h ago
Would love to learn more about how to put this together?
flir•47m ago
The "Fantasy, but the chemistry works" phrasing in the last box on the first tab makes me suspect chatbot input.

Which is a pity, because I like the exhaustive structure. I just can't trust it. But I guess if I was going to dive into inventing weird cheeses, I wouldn't start with a blog post anyway.

(It would be so easy to generate 50k "Periodic table of <noun>" pages and just throw them into the wild. The public internet really is cooked, isn't it).

goosejuice•1h ago
Curiously missing human milk source. Not that I advise it.

Big fan of the thistle + sheep cheeses. Queso de la Serena and Azeitao are fantastic and very interesting.

Quadrello makes a great grilled cheese.

globular-toast•55m ago
It's missing loads of other mammals too, like seals and whales which are often over 60% fat.
fcpk•48m ago
human milk is pretty delicious?
ChrisArchitect•1h ago
Aside: why do all these "Index of.." or "Map of..." dataset compilation sites lately all have the same beige color scheme and font look?
desmondwillow•1h ago
Claude prefers it.
lukeasch21•1h ago
I suspect the surface level answer has something to do with AI, but I would be curious to know the deeper factors at play. Do all popular models gravitate towards the same frameworks and design patterns? As an aside, I'm a little bit suspect of this account having no activity since 2019 and then posting this. Hopefully I'm just overthinking things.
globular-toast•58m ago
Nice. At first I thought there must have a dimension missing as it put things like brie and ricotta together. But then I noticed you can choose different dimensions, and there's more than just one more dimension!

I like cheese but I am concerned about the ethics of it so I eat far less than I could. If you make cheese it's quite shocking how much milk you need to make a single portion of it. I make paneer sometimes and use the whey to make chapati. I wish I could be sure the milk I consume doesn't harm the cows. I also know they take the calves away and kill them too.

chakintosh•55m ago
I hate how I can now tell a website is made with claude within 2s of looking at it.
dust42•51m ago
That website is so low effort that 2s is actually long to figure it out. Very sure that it is robot upvoted.

Edit: I live in the cheese triangle, France - Switzerland - Italy.

yreg•39m ago
Not everyone votes based on effort. The idea might be interesting to people and provoke discussion no matter how much time OP (?) spent creating it.
yreg•44m ago
It looks good, but since the design is becoming so ubiquitous in the small personal projects space (elsewhere as well, but I think it is most noticeable here) it is also boring.

I've vibecoded a few websites for my own use that look very similar to this. If I designed them myself, I would (in those cases) not put up enough effort so they would be much less refined, but also less boring?

edit: The expand/collapse behaviour of the table cells is quite strange. So the design is not that okay, afterall.

l3x4ur1n•43m ago
But, if the information is factual, does it matter if it is designed and coded by Claude? I was interested in information, not really the website design.
bibstha•55m ago
> Yak Milk Gruyère

> If a Nepali dairy cooperative partnered with an Alpine affineur, this could be extraordinary — dense, butterscotch-rich, with a savory depth that cow milk can't match.

I believe Himalayan French Cheese is doing this already. https://www.facebook.com/himalayanfrenchcheese/

densekernel•50m ago
I was so hoping for a period table with elements like Ch, Br, Pa
Galanwe•49m ago
I am shocked that soft and fresh cheese are conflated in the same category. Both the texture and process are different. Brie is nothing like Ricotta.
gowld•45m ago
I don't know why Submitter added the incorrect "periodic" modifier to the title.
croisillon•35m ago
not a periodic map ; sounded promising but the text is just AI slop
haunter•34m ago
Brie and ricotta in the same category :D

That isntantly invalidates the whole thing

chaidhat•30m ago
Can't deer make cheese? Why is it specific to Reindeer?
jrm4•29m ago
I like how "soft to hard" makes sense as a gradient, which is often the flaw in new "periodic tables," but, for anyone who might know, does Cow to Reindeer make any sense here as a gradient? I'm guessing not?
AgentNews•18m ago
We've forgotten the crackers! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nwwu6GpCTBg
lkm0•10m ago
Why put comté and gruyère in two different categories? I just realized that in France the categorization of cheeses is closer to how they are prepared:

- fresh

- soft

- hard but not cooked

- hard and cooked

and it results in entirely different groupings. This will surely make some people unhappy.

GuB-42•10m ago
Bloomy-Rind Buffalo is actually not rare at all, at least in France and Italy. I can find it in grocery stores.

Look for "Camembert di Bufala". It tastes as described in the website.

Also, while I can't think of hard goat cheese in the same way as Parmigiano-Reggiano, small Crottin-style goat cheese age well in the right conditions. For example, Pelardon can be sold at various stages: fresh, creamy, dry. The very aged kind can exceed a year and looks a bit like a cookie: hard, brownish, much smaller than the fresh kind because it lost most of its moisture. But it doesn't taste at all like a cookie, it is very strong, enough to numb your tongue, you can grate it if you want to.

themonsu•8m ago
I don't know if it's just me, but having built enough websites with AI tools, I'm 99% sure this site has been built with AI. Nothing wrong with that, but the AI look makes me doubt the content is also just put together by AI.
MinimalAction•3m ago
The idea is cool, but I have become personally allergic to AI generated content and styles. This one is pretty surely built using Claude.

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