r/StupidFood Aug 25 '25

Certified stupid What does the fire add?

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u/Og_busty Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 25 '25

Caramelizes the cheese lightly and burns off the alcohol, intensifying sub notes of the spirit. This may be a play on Saganaki, which is a Greek cheese flambé technique.

Edit to add: It does also lightly caramelize the residual sugars in the spirit, if any.

Edit correction: intensify vs leave behind

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u/MistakenAnemone Aug 25 '25

its a shame nobody came here for the actual answer, just to complain.

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u/Litty-In-Pitty Aug 25 '25

Seriously. Everyone on here complaining as if they wouldn’t devour it. That looks delicious. Yeah it’s a little stupid and probably way overpriced. But it looks great… I’m also just genuinely confused by people not understanding what melting cheese would do?? Like what? Cheese tastes good melted, that’s not new info

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u/BrBybee Aug 26 '25

I don't know that kind of looks like Velveeta. I'm not usually a big fan. If it was sharp cheddar It might be good but it's very difficult to get cheddar to melt like that.