Hoosier Hill FarmCheddar Cheese Powder, 1LB (Pack of 1)

Really good. A bit on the salty side but it's perfect to give a dish a "Mac & cheese" taste without loading up on the calories. I made lentils with it and it's just delicious

I grew up on Velveeta and like the taste of processed cheese. I even made some chip dip with this and for me it was excellent. If you want a little cheesy flavor in a dish you are making a dash of this powder deepens the flavor without really knowing why. Kind of the way msg helps with umami. Great on corn on the cob.

This cheddar cheese powder gives me the orange fingers I was looking for! It's very tasty! It has a sharper flavor and tastes like real cheese, not a processed cheese product. I'm popping the kernels in coconut oil and immediately shaking on the cheese while hot. This combo makes an absolutely great cheese popcorn! Not hinting of cheese, but bursting with cheese. Do not add salt, as it will counter the flavor of the cheese. Tastes way better than anything from the potato chip aisle. You know how addictive a really good cheese popcorn is. With this cheese powder, you can make your own gourmet quality popcorn at a fraction of the price!Other reviews comment on price fluctuation and receiving shakers as opposed to a bag. I purchased for $9.99, fullfilled by Amazon. I was hoping to receive shakers, but received a bag. You will need a shaker with very large holes. (Think holes like on a chopped onion container. Smaller holes won't cut it.) In the bagged 1-lb category, there is a $10 price spread, so shop carefully and pay attention to delivery complaints. The shipping others charge on a 1-lb package really jacks up the per pound price, so the $9.99 I paid, with free shipping, was the cheapest option w/o having to buy in bulk. So avoid shipping charges and possible delivery delays and stick with good price and fast delivery. And this is a food product. Consider who will give you easy replacement or instant refund if you happen to get a stale bag.Tips for getting the cheese to stick to your popcorn.1) Sprinkle on when hot. Put popcorn in the microwave if you need to. (Keep shaker as far away from popcorn as possible. The steam from the popcorn will make the cheese cake up around the holes.) Immediately stir/mix to coat evenly.2) Spray Pam on the popcorn first. I couldn't find popcorn spritzer. Several reviewers offer this recommendation. I tried it. It works.3) Sprinkle on buttered popcorn. Obviously this will work, but you will also get delicious gooey fingers. I'll eventually try this when I buy some buttery topping, but I'm already popping in coconut oil and trying to avoid the additional calories/fat of butter. (Not like coconut oil is low cal. And besides, it's truly good w/o butter if popped in coconut oil or maybe some other flavorful oil.)Hands down, a 5-star product. I have no plans to try any other brand and I'll be buying often.Update 2/1/13: Still crazy about this cheese. Price running around the $12 mark and worth the increased price. The product page has been updated, showing the product in a jar. Great, right? Not really. It's a wide mouth jar without shaker holes. A regular lid, not a dispensing lid. Definintely a step up over the bag, but falls short. Also, the bag had instructions for making cheese sauce, which is not on the jar. (Knowing the ratio of water to cheese powder isn't common knowledge.) Product taste is easily 5 stars, but I'm docking a star for packaging. I expect better at this price point. Add shaker holes to the lid and bring back the mixing instructions!

This powdered cheese tastes great. I was very surprised. I added a little to regular Mac & cheese and a little more milk and it turned into a cheese sauce 😋

This is exactly what I wanted. It tastes like the cheese in combos, and the cheese that they sprinkle on the cheese curls. That’s what I use it for on snacks. Popcorn too. Haven’t tried chips yet, but I probably will.

This cheese powder has a slightly odd taste I can’t quite pinpoint. It’s not as artificial as Kraft and not as buttery as some other brands—it mostly resembles real cheddar, but there’s a strange aftertaste that lingers. I followed the sauce recipe on the container, but it turned into a thick, clumpy mess. I also tried using it like Kraft’s version with milk and butter, but it refused to dissolve, even when warmed in a pan. The only way I could get a somewhat smooth texture was by blending it with the liquid ingredients—and even then, it remained slightly gritty. The flavor isn’t terrible, but the texture is off-putting. I wouldn’t order it again.

I think I'm going to end up with permanently orange-stained fingers. There's no help for it. This cheese powder is so delicious and cheesy on popcorn that I can't stop eating it. On nights when I've had a lot of errands to run and shopping to do during that day, I'm often too tired to deal with making dinner. But, I'm always up for a tub of popcorn.You can use microwave popcorn, but I think it has a yucky artificial butter flavor. I prefer to pop it on the stove top in a heavy sauce pan with a vented lid (so steam doesn't build up on the inside of the lid and create soggy or tough popcorn) or use my microwave popper that only uses 2 tbs of oil to pop 1/4 cup of kernels. (Because it uses so little oil, I feel less guilty about the butter I add later.) However, either method produces equally tasty popcorn.I prefer white or black corn to yellow because the hulls are smaller, they shatter more easily, and there are far fewer of them. They also have more nooks and crannies for butter and cheese powder to cling. It's also crisper than yellow. So I add my oil and corn, and pop until the popping slows to a second or two between pops and then I dump it in a large bowl.I like to use either coconut oil or bacon fat because of the added flavor they give. There's the same number of calories in canola, peanut, corn, or coconut oil as there are in bacon fat, so use what appeals to you. I particularly like bacon fat if I have some on hand because it just goes so well with the cheese. Haven't you ever added bacon to your mac and cheese?To get the cheese powder to cling well, you need to add some kind of oily topping, such as a spritz of butter-flavored cooking spray or 2 or 3 tbs of butter. You can put your cheese powder in a leftover empty and thoroughly cleaned spice shaker, and generously shake cheese powder over your popcorn until it's as orange as you want it. (You could also use a slotted spoon and simply shake a few giant spoonfuls on your popcorn.)Stir it up thoroughly or shake it in a bag to coat every kernel. Take a gigantic handful for a taste test. Add more cheese if you think you need to but be careful of the salt level. Once it has achieved its ideal level of cheesiness, run and hide with it. You'll want to hoard it. Popcorn made with this cheese powder is even good leftover the next day.This will be by far the best cheese popcorn you've ever had. You can't buy a microwave cheese-flavored product anywhere nearly as good. There is certainly no pre-popped packaged popcorn as good. It only takes a few minutes to make. I used to make it by stealing the pack of powdered cheese out of boxed mac and cheese. That cheese is wimpy compared to this. It's just so much cheesier, with an authentic cheddar taste. You'll eat this so often and in such quantities that you'll wear the brand of a cheddar-pophead: permanently orange-stained fingers.

Great value, great flavor, great price. Will be ordering again.