Cottage cheese is in its diet hack heyday and shows no signs of slowing down. I’ve tried (thumbs up), cottage cheese scrambled eggs (thumbs down), and even something dubbed the (thumbs — it depends), and that’s just the beginning. The latest TikTok darling? A cottage cheese wrap.
I think I have watched every single one of these videos, and there are thousands. Edited into sound bites, it could not look easier. But is that the reality? Some are single-ingredient recipes — cottage cheese right out of the container, baked in a flatbread shape.
But, most versions are more complicated, using cottage cheese blended with egg or . A few are or cooked quickly . Some are flash-baked at over 400 degrees, but most allegedly delicious recipes cook at 350 F for 40 minutes.
There’s even a ! TikToker Capri Lilly (@goodfoodbaddie) has some : using a high-protein cottage cheese, blending for just 30 seconds, shaping as you pour and choosing a moderate baking temperature. Her high-protein sammie certainly looks scrumptious. But after watching so many of these videos, I was left wondering, “What’s up with the modern cottage cheese obsession, anyway? Is it really healthy? Is it even cheese?” According to the , the public’s infatuation might go back to ancient Egypt and Greece, when storing milk in animal stomachs naturally led to a soupy curdle — mmmm! While the food has been available in home kitchens for thousands of years, it’s been commercially produced in the U.
S. since.
