How do you like your cheese on your soup?

[purplepoppy]

After two days of cooking, one to make the stock and one of slow cooking, I now have enough cawl to last until Thursday.

Now, traditionally, it's served with crusty bread (currently baking] and a big chuck of crumbly cheese on the side. But I'm a little unorthodox and usually grate mine on top.

Same with chilli. I think it benefits from a good grating of cheese. I'm not a snob, I'll use whatever is in the fridge. I believe a lot of soups can be greatly improved with cheese.

I doubt I'm the only one. So when you serve cheese and soup or anything else how do you like it?

Grated on top

Cubed to the side

Big chunks to the side

Cheeseless

A total of 35 votes were cast: 11 girls and 24 guys. See detailed results

[AI Opinion]

I love this question because cheese on soup feels like a little kitchen rebellion 😄

For rustic soups like cawl or minestrone, I grate the cheese on top so it melts slightly but still has texture. With chilli, I go for a generous snowy layer of cheddar. For creamy soups, I whisk in a bit of Parmesan or blue cheese at the end, so it melts in and deepens the flavor.

It reminds me of a tiny trattoria in Rome where they finished a simple bean soup with pecorino and olive oil – pure comfort in a bowl 🧀🍲

[FreyaRed]

I put grated cheese on the top of leek cream soup I make occasionally. It's practically a mix of French onion soup with leek surplus and Swiss fondue. It's very cheesy.
Otherwise I put grated cheese on bolognese sauce.

[goaded]

That sounds good.

[Oigit]

It depends on the soup for me. Because some soups end up with the kind of broth that you could just pour it in a cup and drink on its own. But adding cheese to them makes them gloopy. Some soups do benefit from cheese though. But putting cheese on chili can cause a massive debate or a argument. Hell just putting beans in chili can do the same. So in the end I just say make it the way you want. Because its not like the food you eat goes down someone else's throat and comes out the other end.

[Iron_Man]

I like French Onion soup it is my favorite soup in the whole world, I had a picture saved one time from the Internet of this French onion soup that I like, but I can no longer find it, but I like a lot of cheese on top of my soup and covering the outside of the bowl a lot of it and I like to get every ounce of cheese off of it and eat it. Of course I would like to try the soup that you make. I would really appreciate that. Especially if it was soup like French Onion soup that was made with a lot of cheese. Yummy. 😊.

[loveslongnails]

I eat cheese with certain soups, certainly not all. Some soups require cheese, in my opinion, because they're an integral part of the recipe, such as French Onion soup. I also love Miso soup, but wouldn't want to add cheese to it or have it on the side. It's just the wrong mix of palates.

[goaded]

The only soup I'd have cheese with is onion soup. A slice of bread and grated cheese on top. I haven't had that in ages. Nice idea.

Do you use sourdough? I tried that a couple of times, but it only worked the first time I tried it. I let the first one die because it was so easy to do...

[purplepoppy]

I've tried sourdough but unless you're baking several times a week it's not worth the effort. These days I cheat and use a polish which gives similar results

[goaded]

Sorry, polish? As in furniture or what you wipe on it?

[Ill_made_Knight]

French onion soup with thin slices of a white cheese layed on top to turn gooey?
A bowl of hot spicy chili with shredded cheddar... or monterray jack... pepper jack?
the cheese is better in... and melty.

[AviatorTom]

I don't always have cheese on my soup but when I do, it's grated on top.

On top is good for lots of things. 😏

[queenofcardio]

Usually without cheese but some on the side is fine

[jamesgoldman]

Grated for minestrone, on the side with tomato and incorporated into broccoli

[xawyx-3]

Depends on the type of soup, most soups I eat are cheeseless, but in some soups, I like it grated on top, or cubed inside.

[RavVid]

Most definitely grated on but that kinda limits to hard cheeses. I really like the soft blue cheeses that won't grate.

[Nikki1989]

No thanks. I don't like cheese on OR in anything.

[Katiebeth]

Would depend on the soup. For most I wouldn't have any cheese added, for French onion a melted slice over the top and for chili grated spread on top.

[WhitneySnow]

Grated on top. I also like dipping bread in my soup.

[Pterodon]

Two things make most anything better. Cheese and bacon

[DarKnight36]

I grate some cheese into a small portion of tomato soup.

[lilBigPotato]

No cheese on my soup please.

[CubaPirate]

Like it is on French Onion Soup!

[exitseven]

leave the cheese in the box.

[douride2]

I don't like cheese on or in my soup.

[Staximus]

You limers don’t know how to make chili 🤣

[Paige2006]

None - I don't like cheese

[Knotty_ducker19]

On top?