Which fresh cheese tastes most like aged cheese?

Pollycat

All the cheeses you mention - Cottage Cheese, Cream Cheese, Fromage Frais or Ricotta - are 'wet' and will just make the base soggy.

VfM4meplse

sarah1972 wrote: »

Definitely not, its texture is all wrong and it wont melt.

And crucially, it tastes rank. Does anyone remember Pizzaland? I made the mistake of ordering the "Diet Pizza" there once in the early 90s, complete with cottage cheese. I think it was a concept pizza - designed to put you off pizza for life

MysteryMe

It's easy to make a pizza. You can make one completely from scratch without too much effort but if you want but you can just buy ready made bases, a jar of pasta sauce and add the cheese suggested above, Monterey Jack, to see how you get on. In fact you could do half a pizza with say the cheese suggested and see how you get on and then maybe in a couple of days try with mozzarella you have bought from someone local to you where they are likely to sell the freshest stuff.

Definitely don't use something like cottage cheese unless you want to be put off pizza for life

greenbee

Cheese on pizza isn't mandatory ... you can put lots of other toppings on and not bother with the cheese.