423685 Sun Jul 22 18:33:28 -0700 2007 22 42 U.K./Ireland 0 2773409 I want to make some cheese sauce for nachos but every recipe I can find uses velveeta, Is there something I can buy in UK supermarkets thats close to that? Thanks. Sun Jul 22 18:33:28 -0700 2007 113695 SpennyJ 1 2773935 according to wikipedia Velveeta is currently sold in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Philippines, and Germany ("Velveta"). It is sold in Australia as "Kraft Cheddar Cheese". At one time it was also sold in the United Kingdom. if it is a long life cheese it might be akin to (kraft) cheese spread in UK and Aust. could you try using a combination of cheese. if velveta is marketed as a cheese product and a blend then why not go for a blend yourself. pick a good melting cheese such as swiss or emental and mix it with mozzarella and then something a bit tastier. i dont know where you are or living, but the UK supermarkets have wonderful selection of cheese generally and it's just a matter of finding something that melts well. from what i understand velveeta isn't cheese at all so if you are really after something like it you need to be looking in the long life section. sorry i can't help more than that. Mon Jul 23 04:57:01 -0700 2007 2773409 104230 kmh 2 2780696 Do they still even make that stuff here??? I assume you mean that weird stuff that comes in the blue box and wrapped in foil.. **shudders at the memory** Can you just melt it?? or do you have to grate it into a roux?? Tue Jul 24 23:43:53 -0700 2007 2773935 86137 purple goddess 2 3102228 i have rcently moved to australia and i can assure you as a long time velveeta yank fan, the kraft cheddar is nothing like it. it doesn't melt to the same consistancy, it's white and the flavor isn't there. i've been searching online to see about purchasing it somehow over the internet. Do you know if it's even possible? the only sites that sell it it seems you havev to be in the states or canada!! Well they can get it anywhere!! What about us overseas? thanks hungry in australia Tue Nov 06 21:31:58 -0800 2007 2773935 140884 courtneymills 1 2774358 Someone else once asked about Velveeta. Being a Yank (and a cheesesteak, Phila. girl), I can tell you that nothing in the UK resembles Velveeta. A good orange cheddar might work. M&S sells a low-fat orange cheese in slices, and it's the closest thing I've found to the taste of Velveeta although it's not able to be cut into big pieces. I guess it would melt down - I haven't tried. Mon Jul 23 08:56:31 -0700 2007 2773409 11939 zuriga1 1 2774654 Like kmh, I also had to look up the product in Wiki. Am I right in thinking you are just wanting to make a cheese sauce to dunk the nachos? Wouldnt making an ordinary cheese sauce work - roux, milk, tasty cheese - and cooking it till it was the right consistency? I wouldnt look beyond Cheddar or a strong Lancashire for this as good and strong melters. Looking at Kraft's website, it looks it's also used sliced as a topping for, say, burgers. In which case, you'll find all supermarkets have a good selection of pre-sliced cheese. Generally rubbery and bland. Supermarkets usually have fresh cheese sauces available - usually intended for perhaps pasta. Could that be an easy solution? Mon Jul 23 10:01:56 -0700 2007 2773409 78808 Brit on a Trip 2 2776251 looking at the ingredients on the velveeta site, there are a lot of milk solids in their. why not as BoaT suggested make your own. don't worry about the roux and just melt some ORANGE cheese into skim milk and reduce. you could add more milk powder for extra effect. Mon Jul 23 15:50:21 -0700 2007 2774654 104230 kmh 3 2780659 Thank you all for your answers. I think ill have a go at making my own. I will start by melting some Burger Cheese slices into skimmed milk and see where I go from there. Skyco offer to ship Velveeta to the UK but its about £6 for 200g I think plus about the same again for shipping! BTW I am actually British, I live about 20 miles from London. :) Thanks again!!! Tue Jul 24 23:20:18 -0700 2007 2776251 113695 SpennyJ 4 2780683 Let me know how you get on. I think it just might be fine. Where my sons went to uni, a big delicacy was the melted Velveeta put over french fries. You could start a new trend in England. :-) Tue Jul 24 23:35:30 -0700 2007 2780659 11939 zuriga1 4 2780812 okay that puts a different slant on things. i thought you must have been pining for something american i have just found an alternate recipe, which i have adapted for this discussion 1 small onion, finely chopped 1-2 fresh long green chillies, finely chopped 2/3 cup (170g) sour cream 1 3/4 cup (145g) grated cheddar Coriander, to serve Melt the butter in saucepan over a medium heat. cook onion until soft. Add chillies and cook for 1 minute Stir in sour cream for 1 minute or until heated through. Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese to melt you could get onto some of the more piquant oranger cheeses to get closer to the us versions of these recipes. Wed Jul 25 03:20:56 -0700 2007 2780659 104230 kmh 5 2784508 The Sainsburys mild slices are the closest we found. It's essentially "american" cheese. Not the cheapest solution, but it'll do in a pinch. The Kraft DairyLea they sell isnt' bad either. It's a lot saltier and has a flavor very close to classic Mcdonald's cheeseburger cheese. Another thing to try is call up a chain restaurant like Chili's or someone. See if you can finagle a brick of cheese from them :) Thu Jul 26 00:26:11 -0700 2007 2780812 58882 Lord_Pall 1 2784593 from the responses, it seems that Squeezy Cheese (eurgh) could be your answer. Widely available in UK supermarkets Thu Jul 26 04:23:20 -0700 2007 2773409 114464 sprouter 2 2807023 Okay---I'm not proud of this---but I learned how to make Nacho Cheese Sauce after having been deprived for 3 years. I ate it everyday for a week and now I can't look at the stuff. But I will reveal my secrets--- What you need is to make a simple bechamel sauce, add philly cream cheese, red leicester cheese (for the colour), mozzarella for the gooeyness, and jalapenos (if you want to go all 7-eleven, get the ones in a jar.) So it's 1 tbs. flour, 1 tbs butter---cook the roux together over medium heat until it looks like sand. Then you add 1.5-2 cups of cold milk quickly and whisk vigorously. Add a couple of pinches of salt. Then stir and stir until it comes to a boil and thickens, and let cook out another 2 mins over low heat. Then add about 100 g of cream cheese, and then 100 g of red leicester cheese, and 50 g of mozzarella. Add the minced jalapenos at the end. Stir until completely melted. And there you go. Now I feel guilty for leashing this out on the world. Thu Aug 02 09:37:54 -0700 2007 2784593 74642 bagelfairy 3 2809756 Sounds OK to me. And anyone with a name like yours has to be an authority! It's a good thing Philly Cream Cheese is in the UK. Now where is Cool Whip - that's what I yearn for so I can make low-calorie chocolate mousse. Thu Aug 02 23:41:21 -0700 2007 2807023 11939 zuriga1 4 2838295 I'm a pastry chef, so on good conscience I can't let you duplicate cool whip!! Sun Aug 12 12:53:56 -0700 2007 2809756 74642 bagelfairy 1 3014155 You know, one time I wanted to find Dairylea Triangles in the US and someone gave me Velveeta. Not the same thing. I suppose that's not terribly useful, but them there is no good Mexican food in London so you can probably get away with using what you like. TT Mon Oct 08 08:32:55 -0700 2007 2773409 19247 TexasToast 2 3025777 Here, here. Now I live in the US, I can definitely tell you that the so-called Mexican food in London is the pits. I live in North Carolina (which has a burgeoning Latino population) and even the Americanized Mexican food is better than that place in Covent Garden, for example. One reason is that it's probably not possible to get the ingredients for Mexican cuisine. Thu Oct 11 12:31:37 -0700 2007 3014155 80084 Chow Penguin 3 3026269 I've written about this before, but Mexican food iin London and most of the U.S. is really what I call Tex-Mex and not true Mexican cuisine. Heck, anyone can pick up the ingredients in Tesco and make a fajita or tacos. Thu Oct 11 14:19:47 -0700 2007 3025777 11939 zuriga1 4 3036322 Which place in Covent Garden? That new place Wahaca or Navajo Joe's (which isn't really Mexican at all, but it's not native American either)? For Tex-Mex (and TT knows Tex-Mex), the Texas Embassy is pretty good and does a decent Margarita. TT Mon Oct 15 12:28:05 -0700 2007 3026269 19247 TexasToast 1 3014224 Having done a minimal amount of research on the subject, the best substitute for Velveeta (in fact I was looking for something with which to make macaroni and cheese, Kraft-style, since Cheesy Pasta is the pits) is the cheap cheese slices that one can find at Tesco, melted over a low heat. Since it is not real cheese, it's quite close to Velveeta. Melts in a similarly plasticky way. Probably best if you try to dress it up a bit.. Mon Oct 08 08:49:36 -0700 2007 2773409 133060 olivedog 2 3015515 The yellow low-fat slices at M&S are even better than the Tesco equivalent. I've just learned to live without Velveeta until I visit my kids again. :-) Mon Oct 08 13:51:14 -0700 2007 3014224 11939 zuriga1 1 3196084 The closest equivalent I could find to Velveeta whilst living in the UK is called 'Squeeze Cheese' (not like the squirty cheese in an aerosol can), made by a company called Old Fashioned Foods (not the Laughing Cow brand). It is a smooth processed cheese in a squeezy plastic bottle, similar in taste and texture to the cheese packets you get in boxed Velveeta shells n' cheese. I believe you can still find squeeze cheese in some Asda, and/or Tesco supermarkets. Also, I have found this at Partridges in London. Both supermarkets have stores online where you can find out in advance if your local store carries it. I found it to be much easier to use when making mac n' cheese than using processed cheese slices (though I would sometimes melt these on top of the mac n' cheese after cooking. yum!) It is a dead ringer for the 'real' thing! Mon Dec 10 13:54:42 -0800 2007 2773409 124476 FoodieKat 2 4146110 you can get velveeta cheese from www.americansweets.co.uk Mon Nov 03 08:42:37 -0800 2008 3196084 237001 zachwerere